Voltage-dependent meter

• US 9,714,964 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2012
• Issued: 07/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BOB Holding GmbH
• Original Assignee: BOB Holding GmbH
• Inventors: Beck, Bernhard
• Primary Examiner(s): ALLGOOD, ALESA M
• Application Number:
  US13/475,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20120296785A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,894 Days
• Field of Search: 324142
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 21/1335 Tariff switching circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 22/10 using digital techniques

Abstract

A meter for recording or determining the electrical energy withdrawn from an electrical supply network or supplied to it is provided. The meter including a component for measuring the current supply voltage, and a component for determining the operating mode based on the currently withdrawn or supplied electrical energy, wherein the operating mode can be changed, depending on the measured supply voltage, in such a way that a relatively high supply voltage causes a slower metering process than a comparatively low supply voltage.

Claims

1. A meter for recording an electrical energy withdrawn from an electrical supply network, the meter comprising:

a first component for measuring a currently supplied supply voltage; and

a computing element for determining an operation state of the meter for calculating a billing unit based on a currently withdrawn electrical energy,

wherein the operation state is modified in accordance with the measured supply voltage independent of electrical consumption, such that the currently supplied supply voltage that is higher or lower than a nominal voltage causes the computing element to determine that the meter is to be operated under a modified operation state based on a value of the currently supplied supply voltage that is respectively higher or lower than the nominal voltage to define the billing unit,

wherein under the modified operation mode state, a correction factor used to adjust the billing unit is formed based on the nominal voltage of the supply network relative to the currently supplied supply voltage, and

wherein the correction factor increases disproportionately as the measured supply voltage decreases when the measured supply voltage is less than the nominal voltage and the correction factor decreases disproportionately as the measured supply voltage increases when the measured supply voltage is greater than the nominal voltage, and

wherein the billing unit is determined based on an amount of energy used and is adjusted by the correction factor.

2. The meter according to claim 1, wherein the correction factor is less than 1 when the measured supply voltage is greater than a top limit, and the correction factor is greater than 1, when the measured supply voltage is smaller than a bottom limit.

3. The meter according to claim 1, wherein the correction factor is a ratio of the nominal voltage of the supply network and the measured supply voltage.

4. The meter according to claim 1, wherein a voltage-dependent course of the correction factor is predetermined within a device or selected on a network side from a curve set saved within a device.

5. The meter according to claim 1, wherein

the correction factor increases proportionally relative to the measured supply voltage when the measured supply voltage is less than a lower limit of a predetermined range of the voltage value,

the correction factor decreases proportionally relative to the measured supply voltage when the measured supply voltage is greater than an upper limit of the predetermined range of the voltage value, and

the correction factor is constant when the measured supply voltage is within the predetermined range of the voltage value.

6. The meter according to claim 1, wherein

the correction factor increases curvilinearly relative to the measured supply voltage when the measured supply voltage is less than the nominal voltage, and

the correction factor decreases curvilinearly relative to the measured supply voltage when the measured supply voltage is greater than the nominal voltage.

7. The meter according to claim 1, further comprising a display device for displaying the determined billing unit.

8. The meter according to claim 7, wherein the display device is configured to display at least two of the following parameters:

the currently withdrawn electrical energy;

a totaled amount of the billing unit weighted via the correction factor;

a course of the formed correction factor;

a course of the determined billing unit;

an amount of the current correction factor;

via a coloring, measurement of a current network support or network loading;

a diagram representation of a voltage-dependent billing unit or a voltage-dependent correction factor with identification of a current operating point; and

an amount of the electrical energy without a use of the correction factor, the amount of the electrical energy being weighted by the correction factor and the difference between the two amounts.

9. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 7, wherein the display device is spatially separated from the electrical energy meter device.

10. A meter for determining an electrical energy supplied to an electrical supply network, the meter comprising:

a first component for measuring a supply voltage at a supply voltage terminal; and

a computing element for determining an operation state of the meter for calculating a billing unit based on a currently supplied electrical energy,

wherein the operation state is modified in accordance with the measured supply voltage independent of electrical consumption, such that the supply voltage that is higher or lower than a nominal voltage causes the computing element to determine that the meter is to be operated under a modified operation state based on a value of the supply voltage that is respectively higher or lower than the nominal voltage to define the billing unit,

under the modified operation state, a correction factor is formed based on the nominal voltage of the supply network relative to the supply voltage, and

the correction factor increases disproportionately as the measured supply voltage decreases when the measured supply voltage is less than the nominal voltage and the correction factor decreases disproportionately as the measured supply voltage increases when the measured supply voltage is greater than the nominal voltage, and

the billing unit is determined based on an amount of energy used and is adjusted by the correction factor.

11. The meter according to claim 10, wherein

the correction factor increases proportionally relative to the measured supply voltage when the measured supply voltage is less than a lower limit of a predetermined range of the voltage value,

the correction factor decreases proportionally relative to the measured supply voltage when the measured supply voltage is greater than an upper limit of the predetermined range of the voltage value, and

the correction factor is constant when the measured supply voltage is within the predetermined range of the voltage value.

12. The meter according to claim 10, wherein

the correction factor increases curvilinearly relative to the measured supply voltage when the measured supply voltage is less than the nominal voltage, and

the correction factor decreases curvilinearly relative to the measured supply voltage when the measured supply voltage is greater than the nominal voltage.

13. An electrical energy meter device,

wherein the electrical energy meter device records an electrical consumption of electrical energy and/or electrical power withdrawn by a consumer from an electrical supply network, or for capturing the supply of electrical energy and/or electrical power which has been rendered by an energy generator to a supply network, and

wherein dependent upon a supply voltage at the electrical energy meter device, an operation state of the electrical energy meter device is changed such that when the supply voltage at the electrical energy meter device is higher than a first predetermined voltage amount, the electrical energy meter device determines a billing unit as a basis for a lower billed amount than at a supply voltage lower than the first predetermined voltage amount, and that when the supply voltage at the electrical energy meter device is lower than a second predetermined voltage amount, the electrical energy meter device determines a billing unit as a basis for a higher billed amount than at a supply voltage higher than the second predetermined voltage amount.

14. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 13, wherein the supply voltage, in addition to determining the electrical power, is also used to generate an correction factor which is called upon to determine the billing unit while considering its chronological sequence.

15. The electrical energy meter device according claim 14, wherein a course of the correction factor is predetermined on the basis of the supply voltage or a currently applicable course is selected by a ripple control signal at a network operator from a predetermined curve set.

16. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 14, wherein the correction factor is multiplied by the withdrawn electrical energy and/or electrical power, in a case of consumption, or by the rendered electrical energy and/or electrical power in a case of supply, and wherein at current voltages above an upper limit is less than 1, and at the current voltages below a lower limit is greater than 1.

17. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 16, wherein the correction factor is the ratio derived from a nominal voltage of the electrical supply network and a currently present voltage.

18. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 16, wherein the correction factor increases disproportionately in at least one subsection of voltages below a nominal voltage, and preferably falls disproportionately in at least one subsection of voltages above the nominal voltage.

19. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 14, wherein a display device in which a visual illustration that shows a measure for the value of the billing unit is provided.

20. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 19, wherein the display device is set up to display at least two of the following parameters:

a totaled amount of the billing unit without use of the correction factor, a totaled amount of the billing unit adjusted by the correction factor a course of the determined correction factor, a course of the determined billing unit, an amount of the currently present correction factor, a measure for the current network support or network loading by coloring, a diagram of the billing unit or correction factor on the basis of voltage with identification of a current operating point, and an amount of the electrical energy accumulated without use of the correction factor, an adjusted amount of the electrical energy accumulated with the use of the correction factor, and a measure for the difference between the two amounts.

21. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 19, wherein the display device is spatially separated from the electrical energy meter device.

22. An electrical energy meter device connectable to an energy supply network that supplies electric energy from at least one power source, comprising:

an input terminal that receives the electric energy or electric power supplied from the energy supply network;

a computing element that adjusts a billing unit based on a supply voltage amount available at the input terminal and

calculates a billing amount based on the adjusted billing unit,

wherein, when the supply voltage amount available at the input terminal is higher than a predetermined supply voltage amount, the computing element disproportionately decreases the billing unit based on the supply voltage amount being more than the predetermined supply voltage amount, and when the supply voltage amount available at the input terminal is lower than the predetermined supply voltage amount, the computing element disproportionately increases the billing unit based on the supply voltage amount being less than the predetermined supply voltage amount.

23. The electrical energy meter device according to claim 22, wherein the computing element calculates the billing amount also based on consumption of the electrical energy.