Transmitter and monitoring system using the same

• US 9,719,802 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Company Limited (Delta Electronics Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Company Limited (Delta Electronics Incorporated)
• Inventors: Zhu, Ziyu, Zhai, Dazhong
• Primary Examiner(s): LAM, KENNETH T
• Application Number:
  US14/669,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20150318943A1
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/00 Measuring or testing not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/02 with provision for altering or correcting the law of variation
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/028 mitigating undesired influences, e.g. temperature, pressure
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/14 Monitoring arrangements for SDH/SONET rings H04J3/085
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 7/00 Multiplex systems in which the amplitudes or durations of the signals in individual channels are characteristic of those channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/04 the signals being represented by different amplitudes or polarities, e.g. quadriplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a transmitter and a monitoring system using this transmitter, the transmitter includes: a multi-to-one multiplexing switch configured to receive a plurality of sensor signals of a plurality of channels through a plurality of input terminals, select one sensor signal from the plurality of sensor signals, and output the selected sensor signal through a output terminal; a first variable gain amplifier configured to receive the selected sensor signal, amplify the selected sensor signal with a gain within a first gain range, and output the amplified sensor signal; a control parameter input terminal configured to receive an input control parameter from outside of the transmitter; and an operating and switching selector configured to perform operations according to the input control parameter, so as to control the multi-to-one multiplexing switch to select the one sensor signal and control the gain of the first variable gain amplifier.

Claims

1. A transmitter, comprising:

a multi-to-one multiplexing switch configured to receive a plurality of sensor signals of a plurality of channels through a plurality of input terminals, select one sensor signal from the plurality of sensor signals, and output the selected sensor signal through a output terminal;

a first variable gain amplifier configured to receive the selected sensor signal, amplify the selected sensor signal with a gain within a first gain range, and output the amplified sensor signal;

a control parameter input terminal configured to receive an input control parameter from outside of the transmitter;

an operating and switching selector configured to perform operations according to the input control parameter, so as to control the multi-to-one multiplexing switch to select the one sensor signal and control the gain of the first variable gain amplifier;

a plurality of second variable gain amplifiers configured to be placed at a preceding stage of the multi-to-one multiplexing switch for respectively receiving the plurality of sensor signals, be controlled by the operating and switching selector to pre-amplify the plurality of sensor signals with gains within a second gain range, and output the plurality of pre-amplified sensor signals to the plurality of input terminals of the multi-to-one multiplexing switch; and

a plurality of analog switches configured to be placed at a preceding stage of the plurality of second variable gain amplifiers for respectively receiving the plurality of sensor signals, and be controlled by the operating and switching selector to transfer the plurality of sensor signals to the plurality of input terminals of the multi-to-one multiplexing switch, or to the plurality of second variable gain amplifiers.

2. The transmitter according to claim 1, further comprising:

a time division multiplexer configured to be placed at a subsequent stage of the first variable gain amplifier, so as to perform time division multiplexing to the amplified sensor signals output from the first variable gain amplifier, and output the time division multiplexed sensor signals.

3. The transmitter according to claim 1, further comprising:

a control parameter output terminal configured to output an output control parameter generated by the operating and switching selector.

4. The transmitter according to claim 3, wherein

the output control parameter comprises at least one of the follows:

channel numbers corresponding to sources of the plurality of the sensor signals, control parameters for cascading expansion of the transmitter, and control parameters for directly controlling devices outside the transmitter.

5. A monitoring system, comprising:

a plurality of sensors configured to generate a plurality of sensor signals of a plurality of channels;

a transmitter configured to comprise;

a multi-to-one multiplexing switch configured to receive the plurality of sensor signals of the plurality of channels through a plurality of input terminals, select one sensor signal from the plurality of sensor signals, and output the selected sensor signal through a output terminal;

a first variable gain amplifier configured to receive the selected sensor signal, amplify the selected sensor signal with a gain within a first gain range, and output the amplified sensor signal;

a control parameter input terminal configured to receive an input control parameter from outside of the transmitter;

an operating and switching selector configured to perform operations according to the input control parameter, so as to control the multi-to-one multiplexing switch to select the one sensor signal and control the gain of the first variable gain amplifier;

a plurality of second variable gain amplifiers configured to be placed at a preceding stage of the multi-to-one multiplexing switch for respectively receiving the plurality of sensor signals, be controlled by the operating and switching selector to pre-amplify the plurality of sensor signals with gains within a second gain range, and output the pre-amplified plurality of sensor signals to the plurality of input terminals of the multi-to-one multiplexing switch; and

a plurality of analog switches configured to be placed at a preceding stage of the plurality of second variable gain amplifiers for respectively receiving the plurality of sensor signals, and be controlled by the operating and switching selector to transfer the plurality of sensor signals to the plurality of input terminals of the multi-to-one multiplexing switch, or to the plurality of second variable gain amplifiers;

an analog/digital converter configured to receive the amplified sensor signals output from the transmitter, and convert the amplified sensor signals into digital sensor signals;

an interface circuit configured to receive the digital sensor signals, and encode and capsulate the digital sensor signals into a digital output; and

a central control unit configured to send the input control parameter to the transmitter, receive the digital output, and decapsulate and decode the digital output, so as to reproduce and display the plurality of sensor signals.

6. The monitoring system according to claim 5, wherein the transmitter further comprises:

a time division multiplexer configured to be placed at a subsequent stage of the first variable gain amplifier, so as to perform time division multiplexing to the amplified sensor signals output from the first variable gain amplifier, and output the time division multiplexed sensor.

7. The monitoring system according claim 5, wherein the transmitter further comprises:

a control parameter output terminal configured to output an output control parameter generated by the operating and switching selector.

8. The monitoring system according to claim 7, wherein

the output control parameter comprises at least one of the follows:

channel numbers corresponding to sources of the plurality of the sensor signals, control parameters for cascading expansion of the transmitter, and control parameters for directly controlling devices outside the transmitter.

9. The monitoring system according to claim 8, wherein

the interface circuit is configured to receive the channel numbers, and encode and capsulate the channel numbers and the corresponding digital sensor signals into the digital output.

10. The monitoring system according to claim 9, wherein

the central control unit is configured, by designating a channel number to the interface circuit, to obtain the digital output of the sensor signal corresponding to the designated channel number from the interface circuit.

11. The monitoring system according to claim 8, wherein

the transmitter directly sends the control parameters for directly controlling the devices outside the transmitter to the adjusting devices which mates with the plurality of sensors, so as to directly drive the adjusting devices.

12. The monitoring system according to claim 7, wherein

the central control unit is configured to receive the output control parameter, and determine a state of the transmitter according to the output control parameter.

13. The monitoring system according to claim 5, wherein

the central control unit is configured to generate a trigger signal according to the plurality of reproduced sensor signals, and send the trigger signal to adjusting devices which mates with the plurality of sensors, so as to drive the adjusting devices.