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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2020
Phoenix Contact Gmbh & Co. KG, Blomberg, DE;
Benjamin Klimmek, Aerzen, DE;
Felix Schulte, Geseke, DE;
Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG, Blomberg, DE;
Abstract
A measuring system for detecting switching states including a signal converter having signal inputs to each of which an associated binary switching signal representing a switching state can be applied. Electrical resistors, at which an associated measurement signal can be tapped on the basis of the associated binary switching signal, is connected downstream of each of the signal inputs, wherein the electrical resistors have resistance values, which differ from each other, and wherein the electrical resistors are connected in parallel to each other. The signal converter also has a signal output, which is connected downstream of the electrical resistors in order to provide a sum measurement signal at the signal output with a sum current strength, which sum measurement signal is formed from the sum of the measurement signals, and wherein the sum measurement signal has a current strength which can be uniquely assigned to a current strength reference value.