Method and apparatus for monitoring an electrical drive

• US 5,638,051 A
• Filed: 01/11/1996
• Issued: 06/10/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Areva NP GmbH (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Kutzer, Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): Mullen, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lefkowitz, Edward
• Application Number:
  US08/584,729
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 340/660, 340/661, 340/662, 340/663, 340/664, 340/635, 340/657, 361/93, 361/94
• US Class Current: 340/635
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/343 in operation

Abstract

A method for monitoring an electrical drive, in particular a drive of an armature, having electric supply lines being extended through a switchgear plug-in unit associated with the drive and being connected at the plug-in unit to a measurement and evaluation unit, includes connecting at least one of the supply lines to the measurement and evaluation unit through a current transformer, and simultaneously operating and monitoring the drive with the plug-in unit. An apparatus for monitoring the electrical drive includes a switchgear plug-in unit associated with the drive. Electric supply lines of the drive extend through the plug-in unit. Voltage pickups and current pickups are disposed at the plug-in unit for a measurement and evaluation unit. Voltage measuring lines in the plug-in unit begin at the supply lines and end at the voltage pickups. Current transformers in the plug-in unit are associated with the supply lines without interrupting the supply lines. Current measuring lines connect the current transformers to the current pickups.

Claims

1. An apparatus for monitoring an electrical drive having electric supply lines, the apparatus comprising:

a switchgear plug-in unit associated with a direct-current electrical drive and connected into supply lines of the electrical drive;

voltage pickups and current pickups disposed at said plug-in unit;

voltage measuring lines in said plug-in unit beginning at said supply lines and ending at said voltage pickups;

direct current transformers in said plug-in unit being associated with said supply lines without interrupting said supply lines;

current measuring lines connecting said current transformers to said current pickups;

a measurement and evaluation unit connected to said voltage pickups and to said current pickups for monitoring said electrical drive; and

shunts being connected to said supply lines and having two sides and an electrical resistance, and shunt voltage measuring lines each beginning from said supply line at one of said sides of a respective one of said shunts and ending at a respective one of said current pickups, said measurement and evaluation unit determining current intensity from a shunt voltage and said electrical resistance of said shunt.

2. An apparatus for monitoring an electrical drive having electric supply lines, the apparatus comprising:

a switchgear plug-in unit associated with an electrical drive and connected into supply lines of the electrical drive;

voltage pickups and current pickups disposed at said plug-in unit;

voltage measuring lines in said plug-in unit beginning at said supply lines and ending at said voltage pickups;

current transformers in said plug-in unit being associated with said supply lines without interrupting said supply lines;

current measuring lines connecting said current transformers to said current pickups;

a measurement and evaluation unit connected to said voltage pickups and to said current pickups for monitoring said electrical drive; and

a diagnosis plug being connected to said measurement and evaluation unit and being associated with said voltage pickups and said current pickups at said plug-in unit.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said plug-in unit has a coding pickup to be connected to a coding circuit for identifying the drive with which said plug-in unit is associated, and said diagnosis plug is associated with said coding pickup for carrying a coding signal of the coding circuit to said measurement and evaluation unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, including a short-circuit bridge in said plug-in unit forming a conductive connection between two poles of one of said current pickups, said connection being interrupted when said diagnosis plug is mounted at said plug-in unit.

5. The apparatus according to claim 3, including a short-circuit bridge in said plug-in unit forming a conductive connection between two poles of one of said current pickups, said connection being interrupted when said diagnosis plug is mounted at said plug-in unit.