United Technologies Corporation

Otis Elevator Company

Andrew P Weise

William A Veronesi

Harry I Ringermacher

Robert W Reed

George R Wisner

Donald P Cornell

A resonant link inverter control for driving a multi-phase induction motor through three feed lines each connected to opposite sides of a DC bus by a pair of switches. A resonant tank circuit connects a source of DC voltage through an inductor to the DC bus and provides a tank capacitor in parallel with the DC bus. A bipolar transistor having an anti-parallel diode, which is in series with a clamp capacitor to form a clamp circuit connected across the tank inductance, is turned off in response to the clamp current bearing a predetermined relationship to voltage across the clamp circuit as well as voltage across the DC source. The current in each feed line is sampled in response to clamp current which is just slightly less than that which causes turnoff of the clamp transistor.

Noise-immune, clamped, resonant link inverter

An arrangement for detecting metallic particles carried by a fluid includes a metallic probe member which surrounds an elongated passage through which the fluid flows and which is constituted by a split tube having two marginal portions delimiting a gap which extends along said passage and completely separates the marginal portions from one another. Capacitors are arranged at the gap and alternating electric current is caused to flow in the probe member around the passage so that the probe member and the capacitors form a tank circuit having resonance characteristics that are influenced by any inclusion then present in the passage in a manner dependent on the electromagnetic properties of the inclusion. The character of any metallic particle then present in the passage is determined from variations in the alternating electric current that reflect the influence of such metallic particle on the resonance characteristics.

In-line metallic debris particle detection probe and resonant evaluation

In-line metallic debris particle detection system

Microwave signals are injected at one end of a slotted waveguide containing a shorting stub which is moved along the length of the waveguide. The distance to the shorting stub is determined from the comparative phase characteristics of the injected signals reflected back from the shorting stub.

Position sensor

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Columbia, CT, United States of America

Andrew P Weise