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Digital processing and calculating AC electric energy metering system

  • US 4,077,061 A
  • Filed: 03/25/1977
  • Issued: 02/28/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A digital processing and calculating AC electric energy metering system for measuring a parameter of an electric energy quantity occurring in an electric utility system, said metering system comprising:

  • signal sample means including inputs and outputs, said inputs receiving intput voltage and current signal components of said AC electric energy quantity, said outputs producing instantaneous values of the input voltage and current signals when said signal sample means is rendered to a sampling state;

    sampler timer means producing pulse signals at randomly varying intervals, said pulse signals initiating the sampling state of said signal sample means at randomly occurring sampling times;

    analog to digital converter means producing binary signal representations of each of the instantaneous signal values;

    calculating means computing an incremental quantity of the input signals from said binary signal representations thereof occurring at each sampling time;

    accumulator means receiving each incremental quantity computed so as to store totalized values thereof, said totalized values being a time integral of the sums of each computed incremental quantity received to produce measured values of said parameter; and

    output means responsive to the stored totalized values of said accumulator means to produce data output signals representing the measured parameter values.

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