Alternating current detection coil

• US 7,307,410 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2006
• Issued: 12/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshimura, Kazunari, Iwami, Eiji, Ishibashi, Akihiro, Ichimura, Yasuo, Shiokawa, Akimi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Vincent Q.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HOAI AN D
• Application Number:
  US11/562,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20070152651A1
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 324/76.11, 324/117.R, 324/127, 336/123, 336/173, 336/174, 336/200, 336/223, 336/225, 336/229, 336/232
• US Class Current: 324/76.11
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/181 using coils without a magnetic core, e.g. Rogowski coils
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 5/003 Printed circuit coils

Abstract

The AC detection coil is a toroidal coil and includes plural radial-line conductors which are formed on a front face and a rear face of a substrate, conductive connection parts and conductive through-holes which connect electrically each end of radial-line conductors, wherein plural winding turns are consecutively formed by a connection of each radial-line conductor on the front and the rear faces, respectively, and include a forward coil and a backward coil, and each shape on the front and the rear faces of the radial-line conductors and the conductive connection parts are identical with each other. Consequently, when seen from a thickness direction of the substrate, areas of the forward coil and the backward coil are equal to each other, and an external, unneeded to be detected, magnetic field can be canceled each other by the forward coil and the backward coil, then a current detection accuracy can be improved.

Claims

1. An alternating current detection coil for carrying out a non-contact detection of an alternating current, wherein

the alternating current detection coil, which is a toroidal coil, comprising:

plural radial-line conductors which are formed on a front face and a rear face of an insulating substrate so as to radiate out from a periphery of an opening provided on the insulating substrate;

conductive connection parts and conductive first through-holes which extend in a circumferential direction to connect electrically each end of radial-line conductors on the front face and the rear face respectively on either one of an outer side or an inner side of the radial-line conductors; and

conductive second through-holes which connect electrically each end of radial-line conductors on the front face and the rear face respectively on other one of the outer side and the inner side of the radial-line conductors, wherein

plural winding turns are consecutively formed by a connection of each radial-line conductor on the front face and the rear face respectively through the conductive connection parts and the first and the second through-holes,

the plural winding turns comprise a forward coil which winds in one direction and a backward coil which winds in a reverse direction with returning consecutively from an end of the forward coil,

each winding turn of the forward coil and the backward coil is disposed alternately on both the front face and the rear face,

each conductive connection part is routed to avoid a contact with a next radial-line conductor on both the front face and the rear face, and

each shape of the radial-line conductors in the forward coil and the backward coil and the conductive connection parts on the front face and the rear face are identical with each other.

2. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

each conductive connection part has a pattern to connect each end of the radial-line conductors on a front face and a rear face through the first through-hole, and

the patterns on the front face and the rear face have a length approximately equal to each other with the through-hole between.

3. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

each pitch per one turn of the forward coil and the backward coil is formed equally to each other.

4. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

the first and the second through-holes are disposed on an circumference at regular intervals, centering around a substantial center of the opening.

5. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

the conductive connection parts are provided on the outer side of the radial-line conductors.

6. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

land patterns, each of which has a size equal to a land of the first through-hole, are provided on positions, where each radial-line conductor in the forward coil and the each conductive connection part are connected, and where the through-holes are not formed.

7. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

two radial-line conductors adjacent to each other on the front face and the rear face are provided so that a line segment, which bisects an angle between the two radial-line conductors, tangents to a circle of which center is concentric with a toroidal coil.

8. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

a small-size coil to absorb a non-uniformity between the forward coil and the backward coil is provided on at least one of lead lines, which extend from respective lead terminals in the forward coil and the backward coil.

9. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

the respective radial-line conductors on the front face and the rear face are provided on a position overlapping each other with a plain view.

10. The alternating current detection coil according to claim 1, wherein

the respective radial-line conductors in the forward coil and the backward coil adjacent to each other are disposed at closely, on the front face and the rear face, respectively.