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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1982
Michael R Benson, San Jose, CA (US);
William D Hill, San Jose, CA (US);
General Electric Company, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A resistor temperature device (RTD) trip unit is described. The RTD monitors thermal conditions at an industrial process location, such as in a nuclear reactor. Resistance of the RTD varies in accordance with temperature at the monitored process location. An amplifier circuit produces an output signal, corresponding to the variations in RTD resistance, which signal operates a plurality of relay circuits. The relay circuits variously report process conditions such as failure, the obtaining of a preselected level, etc. Additionally, metering provides a continuous analog indication of thermal conditions at the monitored process locations. To correct for non-linearity inherent in the RTD resistance slope, a recursive feedback path is coupled between the RTD amplifier stage and an RTD current source, such that a decreasing resistance slope produces a complementary increase in current supply to the RTD. The result is a linear output signal from the RTD amplifier.
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