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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE40889 | Power metering module A metering module for use in a power circuit monitoring system including a circuit monitor having a processor for processing data related to power signals, said metering module comprising at least one sensor for sensing a predetermined property of a power signal and... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7511468 | Harmonics measurement instrument with in-situ calibration A portable harmonics measurement instrument performs in-situ self-calibration of its current transducers and their associated measurement channels and of its voltage probes and their associated measurement channels. In-situ self-calibration is performed immediately ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7466118 | Compensation of simple fibre optic Faraday effect sensors An electric current measurement device includes a housing defining first and second open ends sealed by first and second sealing means, respectively; a first optical fibre received in an aperture in the first sealing means and in optical communication with a first o... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7412338 | Radio frequency device within an energy sensor system An energy measurement system including a radio frequency (“RF”) device powered by a solar panel. The RF device comprising a wireless communication port operative to transmit and receive communication over a wireless network of additional RF devices. The energy m... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7398168 | Method and system for monitoring power flow through an electric power transmission line A conductor configuration and a power flow of an electric power transmission line set is determined at a location along the line set, and positions in a substantially planar area that is transverse to the line set are determined where a predetermined change in the p... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7373574 | Semiconductor testing apparatus and method of testing semiconductor A semiconductor testing apparatus, includes a test signal generating unit that generates a test signal corresponding to a test pattern to output the generated test signal to a device under test (DUT); a comparison signal generating unit that generates a comparison s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369658 | Secure modulation and demodulation A system and method are disclosed for securely transmitting and receiving a signal. A nonlinear keying modulator is used in the transmitter to encrypt the signal using a nonlinear keying modulation technique. A nonlinear keying demodulator is used in the receiver to... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362104 | Current measurement device and test device A current measuring apparatus for measuring a power supply current received by an electronic device includes: a first current supplying unit for outputting a first current which is a part of the power supply current; a smoothing capacitor for smoothing the first cur... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359809 | Electricity metering with a current transformer The data storage and processing resources required for an electric meter are reduced by basing the selection and application of phase error correction on a root mean square load current flowing through the meter. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355536 | System and method for digital compensation of digital to analog and analog to digital converters The present invention relates to a system and method for digitally compensating signal converters and in particular a digital to analog converter which receives digital input data for a digital to analog converter and supplies anti-function digital coefficients deri... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342507 | Revenue meter with power quality features Power quality detection, monitoring, reporting, recording and communication in a revenue accuracy electrical power meter is disclosed. Transient events are detected by monitoring the wave shape of the electrical power and comparing deviations to a known threshold. S... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7315162 | Reducing power consumption of electrical meters The invention contemplates an electrical power meter and method of operating the electrical power meter. The inventive power meter includes a power supply for converting alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct current (DC) voltage for powering the electronic co... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305310 | System and method for compensating for potential and current transformers in energy meters A meter device for measuring electrical energy is provided. The meter device includes circuitry for measuring at least one parameter of electrical energy provided to the meter device. A storage device is provided for storing at least one calibration factor for compe... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304467 | Circuit for simultaneous testing of electricity meters with interconnected current and voltage circuits Circuit arrangement for simultaneous testing of electricity meters with interconnected current and voltage circuits comprising plurality of said meters having all voltage terminals associated with the same phase connected parallel to respective voltage source and ea... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301440 | Power line communication system and method The present invention provides a device for providing communications through power lines comprised of multiple conductors by transmitting the data signals through a plurality of the conductors. One embodiment of the present invention may be comprised of a transmit c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7274187 | Electrical-energy meter A presently-preferred embodiment of an electrical-energy meter comprises a base adapted to be mounted on a supporting surface, a current sensor assembly comprising a plurality of contact blades extending through the base and adapted to electrically contact a conduct... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271735 | System for the remote data acquisition and control of electric energy meters A system for the remote acquisition of data and for the remote control of electricity meters comprises a central server AMM in bi-directional communication with a plurality of concentrators. To each concentrator, a set of electricity meters is connected, such that b... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7259547 | System and method to use dynamic feedback of analog to digital converter sample rate to adaptively lock the sample rate to input frequency A system and method for dynamically lock the sample rate of an analog to digital (ADC) converter to an input frequency. Specifically, a system for measuring power is disclosed. The system includes an ADC converter, a measuring module, an ADC cycle counter, and a cal... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257497 | Sequential frequency band acquisition apparatus for test and measurement instruments An acquisition apparatus for a test and measurement instrument includes an input to receive an input signal, a digitizer to digitize a selected signal, a bypass path to selectively couple the input to the digitizer, a frequency shift path to frequency shift the inpu... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7239125 | Method and apparatus for electronic meter testing An electronic energy meter senses input voltage and current signals and processes the input voltage and current signals to generate measurements of multiple types of power. The meter comprises a processing system for selecting one of the multiple types of power and ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236897 | Group metering system for power meters A group metering method (and system) for monitoring electrical energy consumption by a plurality of proximate users replaces multiple individual user-meters by a single electronic meter. A single computational engine computes consumed energy values by the users and ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233464 | Apparatus for and method of ground fault detection A ground fault detection system is provided where one current sensor is used to calibrate a second sensor in order to provide automatic zeroing of the difference measurement. The calibration is done gradually in order to differentiate between sensor drift and a tran... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231325 | System for evaluating a sensor signal The inventive device for evaluating the sensor signal includes the provider for providing the sensor signal, the processor for processing the sensor signal and for providing an information signal comprising information regarding the amplitude course of the sensor si... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222028 | Increased accuracy gas energy meter Described is a method and a device for more accurate measurement of a gas supply with a gas meter. A consumption-weighted correction factor is determined by weight averaging of a sensor error factor of the gas meter with a consumption profile characteristic of the g... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221145 | Simplified power monitoring system for electrical panels A power monitoring system for electrical panels providing multi-phase power, with multiple current sensors. The disclosed power monitoring system preferably determines the instantaneous power provided to each of multiple loads by sensing the potential and phase of e... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7199699 | Facilitating communication with power line communication devices The invention includes a method, system, and device for communicating a data signal with a low voltage premise network. The inventive method comprises communicating the data signal with the low voltage premise network, substantially reducing attenuation of the data ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197411 | Real-time power harness A system that generates a dynamic trace of power consumption in a computer system. The system periodically polls current sensors and associated voltage sensors within the computer system to generate dynamic traces of currents and associated voltages for individual c... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7132819 | Floating power supply and method of using the same A power supply of the present invention comprises a transducer having a transducer and a voltage regulator. The transducer is coupled to an electrically non-conductive medium, which may be a light pipe. The electrically non-conductive medium is coupled to a non-elec... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129688 | Method for on-line calibration of low accuracy voltage sensor through communication bus A method for calibrating voltage sensors in a switchboard, using a communication bus which comprises the following steps: i. performing a measurement using a first voltage sensor; ii. transmitting an information derived from said measurement to an electronic device,... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113134 | Transformer antenna device and method of using the same The invention contemplates an antenna device, system and method of installing the antenna device for receiving a wireless signal at a pad mounted electrical transformer. The novel device includes an antenna capable of communicating the wireless signal and a material... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111179 | Method and apparatus for optimizing performance and battery life of electronic devices based on system and application parameters An electronic device (e.g., computer system, etc.) employing dynamic power management of the present invention adjusts power consumption in accordance with an analysis of parameters and events occurring over one or more time-periods. Preferably, the electronic devic... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106081 | Parallel calibration system for a test device A parallel calibration system for an electronic circuit tester comprises test and measurement electronics, a test fixture coupled to the test and measurement electronics, the test fixture comprising clock reference circuitry and clock distribution circuitry, a devic... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103240 | Method and apparatus for providing inductive coupling and decoupling of high-frequency, high-bandwidth data signals directly on and off of a high voltage power line The present invention is drawn to an electrically “closed” method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data signals over a high voltage power line. Inductive coupling is employed for coupling and decoupling the data signal directly on to and off of a sin... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102556 | Method and apparatus for obtaining power computation parameters A method and apparatus for obtaining power computation parameters is presented. Accurate computation of power requires multiplying voltage and current at the same instant of time and integrating the results over time. The present invention provides a method of using... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102478 | Power line coupling device and method of using the same The coupling device of the present invention includes a housing, a first fastening member attached to said housing and coupled to the power line, a second fastening member attached to the housing and coupled to the power line, an inductor providing an impedance to d... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096168 | Circuit configuration for simulating the input or output load of an analog circuit In order to simulate the input or output load of an analog circuit, the output of the analog circuit is connected to the input of a driver stage. A measuring element is placed between the input of the driver stage and the reference potential, in order to record the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084618 | Parallel bus debugging tool A system and method for testing the signals on a parallel communication bus uses a single printed circuit board that connects to the bus. The signals from the bus may be passively and actively filtered prior to a multiplexer. The multiplexer may be controlled by a v... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076382 | Method of measuring the effective directivity and/or residual system port impedance match of a system-calibrated vector network analyser To measure the effective directivity and/or the effective source port match of a test port of a system-calibrated vector network analyser, a precision air line short-circuited at the outlet is connected, and the complex reflection coefficient is measured at the inle... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076378 | Device and method for providing power line characteristics and diagnostics An apparatus determines a characteristic of a portion of a power line. The apparatus comprises a coupling device in communication with a processor. The coupling device receives a signal from a power line and the processor receives the signal from the coupling device... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075414 | Device and method for communicating data signals through multiple power line conductors The present invention provides a device for providing communications through power lines comprised of multiple conductors by transmitting the data signals through a plurality of the conductors. One embodiment of the present invention may be comprised of a transmit c... | 07/11/2006 |
