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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:
Jun. 06, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert A Boenning, Timonium, MD (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3241 / ; 324126 ;
Abstract
A non-contact DC current sensor has a housing in which a pair of cantilevered compliant armatures are mounted. In one embodiment, a single magnet is mounted to a free end of one armature portion, and a nonmagnetic mass of the same moment and weight is mounted at the free end of the other armature to compensate for gravitational forces. Strain gages are mounted adjacent the magnet and the nonmagnetic mass on the pair of armatures. The strain gages are connected in a circuit to generate an output caused by a Lorentz force. The circuit includes provision for static gravity compensation, and in one embodiment l/r compensation.