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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1992
Charles W Edwards, Monroeville, PA (US);
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method of constructing a sinusoidal output signal corresponding to a selected harmonic of a sinusoidal input signal is described. The input signal is deconstructed into direct and quadrature components by respectively multiplying it with a selected harmonic of cosine and sine reference signals. The direct and quadrature components contain orthogonal dc components corresponding to the direct and quadrature magnitudes of the input signal at the selected harmonic frequency. The generated direct and quadrature magnitude values are respectively applied to error amplifiers in accordance with the invention. The outputs of the error amplifiers are respectively multiplied by the selected harmonic component of the sine and cosine reference signals. This provides the proper phase values for the respective quadrature and direct processed signals at the selected harmonic frequency. The processed quadrature and direct signals are then summed to yield an output signal which corresponds to the magnitude and phase values of the selected harmonic of the input signal.