Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Klaus Windsheimer

Alexander Graf

Thomas Hilderscheid

Siegfried Neumann

Manfred Schwendtner

Wolfgang Dohmstreich

Erhard Schlund

Sven Günther

Rainer Forthner

Gunter Haefele

Gerald Hauke

Georg Grimm

A device is for the spatially resolved measurement of photons, in particular x-ray photons. In an embodiment, the device includes a first plurality of photoelectric converters, a second plurality of current measuring apparatuses and a third plurality of voltage conditioners. Each current measuring apparatus is electrically connected to at least one photoelectric converter; each voltage conditioner is electrically connected to at least one current measuring apparatus; and each photoelectric converter is configured to generate a photocurrent from an incident photon. Each voltage conditioner is connectable to a supply bar, configured to provide a supply voltage. The voltage conditioner is configured to down-convert the supply voltage to an operating voltage of a current measuring apparatus. Each current measuring apparatus is configured to measure a photocurrent under operating voltage when this is generated in a photoelectric converter, electrically connected to the respective current measuring apparatus.

Device for the spatially resolved measurement of photons

An X-ray device according to an embodiment of the invention includes an X-ray detector including a number of detector elements, the detector elements being subdivided into at least two subgroups, each of spatially linked detector elements. The X-ray device or the X-ray detector includes a voltage supply unit for providing a fundamental voltage. The X-ray detector includes two voltage transformers, of which each is associated with respectively one of the two subgroups. And each of the voltage transformers is configured for converting the fundamental voltage into a detector operating voltage for the detector elements, which is lower than the fundamental voltage.

X-ray device and X-ray detector for an X-ray device

The invention relates to a measured value acquisition and processing unit () that facilitates the acquisition and processing of very small measuring signals in the range of interfering signals, such as, for example, noise, spillovers, etc. This means that the useful values to be detected usually contain interfering portions. The inventive measured value acquisition and processing unit () separately acquires these interfering portions by means of a switch element () disposed in the area of feed of the measured signals by means of which the measuring circuit is short-circuited in such a manner that the measured signal is not coupled in but only interfering signals that might occur in the measuring circuit are detected. The inventive method provides a large range of dynamic ratio for the detection of measured values at low costs.

Measured value acquisition and processing unit for small measuring signals

The invention relates to an electricity meter with signal channels that are passed to a digital signal processing device and each of which has a multiplexer with downstream analog/digital converter. Voltage signals of an electrical consumer can be connected to a first input of the analog/digital converter of the first signal channel, and current signals of the electrical consumer can be connected to a first input of the analog/digital converter of the second signal channel. In order to allow the meter to be used without any circuit variation both as a four-conductor meter and as a three-conductor meter, one of the voltage signals can be connected to a second input of the analog/digital converter of the first signal channel.

Electricity meter

In order to obtain a simple circuit structure for a measuring device with high measuring accuracy, it is provided that current and voltage signals of a load are fed to a multiplexer and, after digitization, are multiplied by one another. In order to compensate for external angle errors, different waiting cycles are generated between the current and voltage values in the digital signal. A measuring device and a method are provided for this purpose. A preferred application is in electricity meters.

Method and device for compensating for angle errors when measuring electrical power

An electronic measuring device achieves an improvement in measurement accuracy while at the same time compensating for influences on the measurements, by providing for a correction factor to be stored in a correction element when the measuring device is first set up. During operation, provision is made for a test voltage to be received and compared with a reference value stored during setting. If there is a difference between the two values, a new correction factor is produced which compensates for any measurement signal effect. The measuring device is particularly suitable for electricity meters.

Electronic measuring device using a correction factor to compensate for

An electricity meter includes measurement channels. In order to permit an extensive self monitoring of the measurement channels, input signals, in particular detected current signals and voltage signals, are detected in a double manner through different signal channels with sigma delta modulators. A plausibility monitoring of the detected signals takes place in a following digital signal processing device, wherein a corresponding error signal is generated depending on the type of malfunction or signal deviation.

Electricity meter with multiplexers for monitoring measurement channels

An electricity meter with differentiating input converters, in particular current converters, attains improved signal processing by providing a respective analog filter, in particular a low-pass filter, following each of the input converters. In this way, voltage peaks are limited for electronics downstream. Adulteration of measured signals caused by filters is compensated for by a digital filter in a downstream signal processing.

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