Patent ID: 6552675
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: H02H,H03M

Abstract:
An electrical protection device comprising a plurality of sensors, a multiplexer connected to the output of the sensors to receive a plurality of electrical signals to be measured with a predetermined precision, an analog-to-digital converter, connected to the output of the multiplexer, and digital processing means connected to the analog-to-digital converter, wherein the analog-to-digital converter is a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter comprising a sigma-delta modulator, having a preset stabilization time, connected in series with a numerical decimation filter, the decimation filter comprising a plurality of all weighting coefficients level 1 to n, such that, a first quantity corresponding to a ratio between a first sum of the coefficients, of level 1 to m, used during the modulator preset stabilization time, and a second sum of all the coefficients of level 1 to n of the filter, a second quantity corresponding to a ratio between the maximum and minimum amplitudes of the electrical signals to be measured, the product of the first and second quantities is being lower than said precision, m being much lower than n.