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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2011
Applicants:

Michel Gervais, Bajamont, FR;

Michael E. Moore, Central, SC (US);

Isabelle B. Snyder, Walhalla, SC (US);

Inventors:

Michel Gervais, Bajamont, FR;

Michael E. Moore, Central, SC (US);

Isabelle B. Snyder, Walhalla, SC (US);

Assignee:

ITRON, INC., Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 21/00 (2006.01); G01R 21/06 (2006.01); G01R 13/00 (2006.01); G01R 29/26 (2006.01); H03F 1/26 (2006.01); H04B 15/00 (2006.01); G01R 21/133 (2006.01); G01R 15/20 (2006.01); G01R 19/25 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 21/133 (2013.01); G01R 15/202 (2013.01); G01R 19/2506 (2013.01);
Abstract

Signal filtering removes effects of a periodic, low-frequency noise signal from a signal of interest. A signal waveform is sampled at different points of a number of consecutive periodic noise signal cycles and the collected samples are averaged to produce a corrected signal. The number of consecutive cycles in which samples are taken and averaged is inversely related to the signal amplitude such that as the signal level decreases, the number of cycles examined increases. Improved RMS calculations are obtained for filtering low-frequency random noise from Hall sensors by averaging samples at different points of a signal cycle to create a composite desired signal cycle to facilitate other signal calculations.


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