Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – Frequency of cyclic current or voltage
Patent
1977-12-08
1978-10-03
Krawczewicz, Stanley T.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
Frequency of cyclic current or voltage
324 83D, 324 85, 328163, G01R 2700
Patent
active
041186656
ABSTRACT:
The phase and/or period stability of a device being tested is determined by connecting the device in one orthogonal arm of a phase detector having a mixer. In the other arm is an adjustable, variable phase shift device, such as a line stretcher. The output of the mixer is fed through an active low pass filter to derive a DC voltage indicative of the phase shift of the tested device. Initially, the variable phase device is adjusted so that the DC voltage is approximately zero to nullify the phase shift of the tested device under normal conditions. The DC voltage level is converted into a time interval indicative of the phase change of the tested device by determining when the level equals the amplitude of a low frequency ramp voltage that functions similar to a beat frequency output of a prior art dual mixer detector. The interval between adjacent equality points for the phase indicating voltage and the ramp voltage can be measured or the period between a reference point on the ramp voltage and the equality between the ramp voltage and the phase indicating voltage can be measured.
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Krawczewicz Stanley T.
Manning John R.
Sandler Ronald F.
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
Tresansky John O.
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