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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1980
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1978
Wilfried Sartorius, Steinen, DE;
Don J Stock, Schopfheim-Langenau, DE;
Endress & Hauser GmbH & Co., Maulburg, DE;
Abstract
A pulse width measuring apparatus including a threshold-level trigger, which receives the pulses to be measured and a threshold voltage. At the instant at which the pulse voltage exceeds the threshold voltage the threshold-level trigger starts a time-measuring device which is arrested at the end of each pulse, so that the measured time indicates the pulse width. The threshold voltage is supplied by the tapping of a voltage divider which is connected to the output of a sample and hold circuit that is triggered after the end of the rising flank of each pulse to sample and store the value of the pulse amplitude. According to a preferred embodiment, a similar arrangement is provided for arresting the time-measuring device when the pulse voltage falls below a second threshold voltage.