Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Programmable current sink for contact input circuits
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Application No.: US15528255Application Date: 2014-11-21
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Publication No.: US10436843B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Alan Carroll Lovell , Bruce Henderson
- Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Armstrong Teasdale LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2014/066820 WO 20141121
- International Announcement: WO2016/081009 WO 20160526
- Main IPC: G01R31/327
- IPC: G01R31/327 ; G05F1/56

Abstract:
A system and method according to various embodiments can include a programmable current sink circuit that comprises a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The DAC is programmable to set an adjustable magnitude of current sink so that a proper amount of current is jointly sunk from a plurality of inputs to generate a total sink current. With the adjustable current sink, redundant inputs, such as dual modular redundancy or triple modular redundancy, or simplex inputs can jointly sink the proper amount of current.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170343609A1 PROGRAMMABLE CURRENT SINK FOR CONTACT INPUT CIRCUITS Public/Granted day:2017-11-30
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