Transformer arrangement for coupling a communication signal to a three-phase power line

• US 4,188,619 A
• Filed: 08/17/1978
• Issued: 02/12/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
• Original Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
• Inventors: Perkins, William C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Caldwell, Sr., John W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Application Number:
  US05/934,449
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 340/310 R, 340/310 A, 340/310 CP, 340/538, 179/2.5 R, 178/64, 323/44, 323/48, 323/57, 336/182, 336/180, 336/192, 333/119, 333/177, 307/3, 307/149
• US Class Current: 307/3
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5416 by adding signals to the wave form of the power source
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5458 Monitor sensor; Alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5466 using three phases conductors
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5483 using coupling circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/56 Circuits for coupling, blocking, or by-passing of signals

Abstract

A communication signal is coupled simultaneously to all three phases of a neutral-wye three-phase power line through a transformer arrangement consisting of a low voltage set of three serially connected windings across which the signal is applied to produce the same current in all three windings and a high voltage set of three windings which are connected in a neutral-wye configuration to the power line with a winding of each set being magnetically coupled to a different winding of the other set such that the currents induced in all three windings of the high voltage set flow in the same direction with respect to the neutral connection.

Claims

1. A transformer arrangement for simultaneously coupling a signal to all three phase conductors of a three-phase power line having a neutral conductor comprising:

a low voltage set of three like windings serially connected, with one end of each of two of said windings being disconnected;

a high voltage set of three like windings connected in a neutral wye configuration to the power line;

means for magnetically coupling each winding of one set with a different winding of the other set so that a current through said low voltage set of windings causes currents to flow through the windings of said high voltage set in the same direction with respect to the neutral connection, and

means for applying the signal to be coupled to the power line across the disconnected ends of the two windings of the first set.

2. Signaling apparatus for simultaneously coupling a signal to all three phase conductors of a three-phase power line having a neutral conductor, comprising:

an AC signaling device having a pair of terminals through which the signal is translated, and

a transformer having a low voltage set of three like windings serially connected, with one end of each of two of said windings being connected to a different one of said terminals, a high voltage set of three like windings connected in a wye-neutral configuration to the power line and means for magnetically coupling each winding of one set with a different winding of the other set so that a current through said low voltage set of windings causes currents to flow through said high voltage windings in the same direction with respect to the neutral connection.

3. A signaling system, comprising:

a three-phase power line comprising three phase conductors and a neutral conductor;

an AC signaling device having a pair of terminals through which the signal is translated; and

a transformer having a low voltage set of three like windings serially connected, with one end of each of two of said windings being connected to a different one of said terminals, a high voltage set of three like windings connected in a wye-neutral configuration to the power line and means for magnetically coupling each winding of one set with a different winding of the other set so that a current through said low voltage set of windings causes currents to flow through said high voltage windings in the same direction with respect to the neutral connection.