Circuit arrangement for compensating for the influence of temperature on coil quality

• US 5,239,283 A
• Filed: 06/19/1992
• Issued: 08/24/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Wiesgickl, Bernhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Lateef, Marvin M.
• Application Number:
  US07/901,385
• Time in Patent Office: 431 Days
• Field of Search: 338/10, 338/22 R, 338/225 D, 334/5, 334/6
• US Class Current: 338/10
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/036 on measuring arrangements themselves

Abstract

To compensate for the temperature dependence of a resonant circuit, it is known to use an a.c. current source, with which the resonant circuit is excited in dependence upon the ohmic resistance of the coil conductor material. The task of compensating for temperature may to be solved without a costly closed-loop control process and with few losses. A magnetically coupled second coil is connected in parallel with the first coil to be compensated, and an NTC thermistor is connected in series with one of the two coils so that the series connection is connected in parallel with the other of the two coils. The NTC thermistor is selected so that, in conjunction with the two variable sized ohmic resistors of the two coils, the circuit arrangement has a specified total ohmic resistance, which is substantially independent of temperature.

Claims

1. A circuit arrangement comprising:

a first coil having N1 turns, which includes a first inductor and a first variable ohmic resistor; and

a second coil magnetically coupled with the first coil and having N2 turns, which includes a second inductor and a second variable ohmic resistor, wherein the number of turns N2 of the second coil deviates from the number of turns N1 of the first coil at the most by 10%; and

an NTC thermistor, which is connected in series with the second coil so that the second coil and the NTC thermistor are connected in parallel with the first coil, the NTC thermistor being selected so that, in conjunction with the two variable ohmic resistors, said circuit arrangement has a specified total ohmic resistance value R_g which is substantially independent of temperature.

2. The circuit arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the size of the two ohmic resistors is varied by appropriately selecting a conductor cross-section associated with each respective ohmic resistor.

3. The circuit arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first and second coil are wound from litz wire, and a determination of a conductor cross-section, which corresponds to a number of single litz wires, is made starting from the value R_g of the total ohmic resistance of the circuit arrangement and from an agreement between calculated ideal characteristic curves R_t of the ohmic resistance in dependence upon temperature for a fictitious NTC thermistor and characteristic curves of available NTC thermistors on the basis of the following equation:

##EQU2## where R= R_o (1+α

·

Δ

T); and

wherein

n= the total litz number;

m= a number of litz wires for the second coil;

R_g = the setpoint value of the total ohmic resistance of the circuit arrangement;

R= the resistance of a single litz wire;

R/(n-m)= the ohmic resistance of the first coil;

R/m= the ohmic resistance of the second coil;

R_o = the resistance of a single litz wire at a specific temperature;

α

= the temperature coefficient; and

Δ

T= the change in temperature.

4. The circuit arrangement according to claim 2, wherein the first and second coil are wound from litz wire, and a determination of a conductor cross-section, which corresponds to a number of single litz wires, is made starting from the value R_g of the total ohmic resistance of the circuit arrangement and from an agreement between calculated ideal characteristic curves R_t of the ohmic resistance in dependence upon temperature for a fictitious NTC thermistor and characteristic curves of available NTC thermistors on the basis of the following equation:

##EQU3## where R= R_o (1+α

·

Δ

T); and

wherein

n= the total litz number;

m= a number of litz wires for the second coil;

R_g =

the setpoint value of the total ohmic resistance of the circuit arrangement;

R= the resistance of a single litz wire;

R/(n-m)= the ohmic resistance of the first coil;

R/m= the ohmic resistance of the second coil;

R_o = the resistance of a single litz wire at a specific temperature;

α

= the temperature coefficient; and

Δ

T= the change in temperature.

5. The circuit arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the number of turns N1 of the first coil is equal to the number of turns N2 of the second coil.

6. The circuit arrangement according to claim 2, wherein the number of turns N1 of the first coil is equal to the number of turns N2 of the second coil.

7. The circuit arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the circuit arrangement is a component of a resonant circuit.

8. The circuit arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the circuit arrangement is a component of an inductive proximity switch.

9. The circuit arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first coil is a coil for which an influence of temperature is to be compensated.