JP2009145205A - Partial discharge inspection device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that even when a switching noise generated when application of a high-voltage power source is started or some external noise is input, a conventional partial discharge inspection device determines by mistake that discharge is generated, and determines to be a defective product. <P>SOLUTION: This device is equipped with an impulse generation part for applying a high-voltage impulse signal to a test object, an antenna for receiving an electromagnetic wave signal generated by discharge in the test object caused by application of the impulse signal, a gate circuit for synchronizing the electromagnetic wave signal with application of the impulse signal and outputting it to a subsequent step, a detector for detecting the electromagnetic wave signal output from the gate circuit, and a signal processing part for determining acceptance of the test object based on the magnitude of the detected signal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus for detecting a defective product of a device using windings such as a motor, and more particularly to a partial discharge inspection device for inspecting an insulation failure by a partial discharge test of a stator of a device using windings. It is about.

  For example, a method described in Patent Document 1 will be described as one of means for detecting a partial discharge signal generated by a device using a winding such as a motor. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a motor inspection apparatus and inspection method disclosed in Patent Document 1. In FIG. Here, the high voltage power supply 45 applies a voltage to the coils 42, 43, 44 in response to a signal from the voltage control unit 46. A signal due to the partial discharge generated at this time is detected by the antenna 47 and the current sensor 49. Each detection signal is output to the insulation test apparatus 63. In the insulation test apparatus 63, after analyzing the waveform of the detection signal by the FFT analysis units 50 a and 50 b, the noise determination unit 61 determines whether the motor is healthy and displays the determination result on the display unit 62. At this time, if both of the signals received by the antenna 47 and the current sensor 49 are larger than the reference value, it is determined as rejected.

JP-A-2005-274440

  In the method disclosed in Patent Document 1, a high voltage generation unit including a voltage control unit 46 and a high voltage power supply 45, an antenna 47, a current sensor 49, and an insulation test apparatus 63 that performs analysis / determination of a detection signal subsequent thereto are provided. Detailed coordination function is not presented. That is, the noise determination unit 61 is in a state of analyzing and determining not only a regular detection signal but also an unnecessary received signal.

  In this case, even when switching noise generated when the high-voltage power supply 45 starts application or some external noise before application of a high voltage for testing is input to the antenna 47 and the current sensor 49, it is erroneously discharged. There was a problem that it was determined that there was a defective product.

  A partial discharge inspection apparatus according to claim 1 includes an impulse generator that applies a high-voltage impulse signal to a device under test, and an antenna that receives an electromagnetic wave signal generated by a discharge in the device under test by applying the impulse signal. A gate circuit that outputs the electromagnetic wave signal to the subsequent stage in synchronization with the application of the impulse signal, a detector that detects the electromagnetic wave signal output from the gate circuit, and a device under test based on the magnitude of the detection signal And a signal processing unit for determining whether or not to pass.

  The partial discharge inspection apparatus according to claim 2 is characterized in that a signal synchronized with the impulse signal sent to the gate circuit is sent to the gate circuit after a certain delay time from the start of application of the impulse signal. Is.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a partial discharge inspection apparatus for receiving an impulse generator for applying a high voltage impulse signal to a device under test and an electromagnetic wave signal generated by a discharge in the device under test by applying the impulse signal. An antenna that outputs the electromagnetic wave signal to a subsequent stage when the impulse voltage exceeds a predetermined voltage value, a detector that detects the electromagnetic wave signal output from the gate circuit, and a magnitude of the detection signal And a signal processing unit for determining whether the product under test is acceptable or not.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a partial discharge inspection apparatus that receives an impulse generator that applies a high-voltage impulse signal to a device under test, and an electromagnetic wave signal that is generated by a discharge within the device under test due to the application of the impulse signal. Antenna, a low noise amplifier that amplifies the electromagnetic wave signal, a switch circuit that supplies power to the low noise amplifier in synchronization with the application of the impulse signal, and a detector that detects the electromagnetic wave signal output from the amplifier And a signal processing unit that determines the pass / fail of the product under test based on the magnitude of the detection signal.

  As described above, according to the partial discharge inspection apparatus of the present invention, switching noise and electromagnetic wave signals due to partial discharge can be distinguished, and erroneous determination can be eliminated, so that the reliability is improved. Moreover, it becomes possible to protect the elements inside the detector against excessive external noise, and the reliability is improved.

Example 1.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a partial discharge inspection apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is an antenna that captures an electromagnetic wave, 2 is a detector that outputs an analog signal corresponding to the amplitude of the electromagnetic wave, 3 is a microwave sensor comprising the antenna 1 and the detector 2, and 4 is for controlling impulse generation. Control unit 5 is an impulse generator for generating an impulse, 6 is a product under test such as a coil winding inside the motor, 7 is an electromagnetic wave emitted from the product under test, 8 is a signal obtained from the detector 2 A signal processing unit, 9 is a display unit for displaying a signal processing result, 10 is a synchronization signal transferred from the control unit 4 to the detector 2, 11 is at least the control unit 4, impulse generating unit 5, signal processing unit 8 and This is an impulse testing device comprising a display unit 9.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of the detector 2 shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, 21 is a gate circuit that limits the input time of a signal detected by the antenna 1, 22 is a limiter that blocks an excessive signal, 23 is a filter that passes only a signal in a desired frequency band, and 24 is an amplifying signal. A low noise amplifier (LNA), 25 is a detector that converts an electromagnetic wave signal into a DC signal, and 26 is an amplifier (AMP) that amplifies the output of the detector 25. As the gate circuit, a high-speed operation IC (operation time is 5 nanoseconds or less) as shown in FIG. 3 is commercially available, and such a circuit may be used.

  Next, the operation will be described. An impulse output signal is output from the controller 4 to the impulse generator 5. In the impulse generator 5, charge is stored in advance in the capacitor, and according to the impulse output signal from the controller 4, for example, a semiconductor switch such as a thyristor is closed to discharge the capacitor charge, and a high voltage is applied to the non-test product 6. . The DUT 6 is, for example, a coil winding used for a motor. If the insulation between the windings is insufficient, partial discharge may occur. At that time, electromagnetic waves 7 are emitted by this partial discharge. The electromagnetic wave in this case contains a wide frequency component. The antenna 1 has a resonance frequency f0 set to any frequency between 1 GHz and 3 GHz, for example, and sends a signal of the resonance frequency f0 from the electromagnetic wave 7 to the detector 2.

  Further, the control unit 4 outputs the synchronization signal 10 to the detector 2 after the delay time t <b> 1 from the time when the impulse output signal is output to the impulse generation unit 5. The operation of the detector 2 will be described with reference to FIG. The detector 2 receives the synchronization signal 10 from the control unit 4 and simultaneously opens the gate circuit 21 to accept the signal from the antenna 1. The limiter 22 protects subsequent circuits by flowing the signal to ground when the input signal is excessive. The filter 23 further narrows down the frequency band narrowed by the antenna 1 and outputs the minimum necessary input signal to the LNA 24. The LNA 24 amplifies the signal. The detector 25 outputs a signal proportional to the envelope of the input GHz band signal. The AMP 26 amplifies the signal from the detector 25 and outputs it to the signal processing unit 8.

  Therefore, the frequency component of the output signal from the detector 2 has a frequency that is many orders of magnitude smaller than the input signal from the antenna 1. For this reason, low-bit and low-speed A / D conversion elements of the signal processing unit 8 described later can be used.

  In the signal processing unit 8, after A / D converting the signal from the detector 2, it is determined whether the device under test 6 has passed or failed the test based on the magnitude of the signal. The display unit 9 displays, for example, an impulse waveform, an envelope waveform of an electromagnetic wave signal, and pass / fail, and notifies the tester.

  The impulse waveform applied to the DUT 6 is, for example, like the upper graph in FIG. The maximum value is reached in several tens of nanoseconds from the start of application, and then the vibration oscillates while the amplitude is attenuated. When a partial discharge occurs in the device under test 6, as shown in the lower graph of FIG. 4, a partial discharge occurs near the maximum value of the applied voltage, so the control unit 4 sends the partial discharge to the detector 2. The delay time t1 of the synchronization signal to be set is set to several tens of nanoseconds, and the gate circuit 21 is opened so that the electromagnetic wave due to the partial discharge can be received. Thereafter, the gate circuit 21 is closed after a predetermined time.

  When applying an impulse voltage, a semiconductor switch such as a thyristor is closed. In many cases, noise called switching noise is emitted at this time. In an apparatus that attempts to detect a partial discharge with an emitted electromagnetic wave as in the present invention, switching noise is received by the antenna 1 and it is mistakenly detected that an electromagnetic wave due to the partial discharge has been detected. May be rejected. On the other hand, switching noise and electromagnetic wave signals due to partial discharge can be distinguished by opening and closing the gate circuit in synchronization with a delay time applied to the impulse signal as in this embodiment, thereby eliminating erroneous determination. This improves reliability.

  Even if the test is not being performed, if the antenna 1 is connected to the detector 2, if the antenna receives some electromagnetic wave or noise from the outside, the signal is sent to the detector 2, and the received signal is temporarily If it is large, internal elements may be damaged. According to the present embodiment, since the gate circuit is closed when the test is not being performed, it is possible to protect the internal elements and improve the reliability.

  In the above description, the delay time t1 is several tens of nanoseconds, but it is needless to say that the time is not limited to this time. The optimum value of the delay time t1 may be selected according to the product under test 6, the impulse generator 5, and the test system.

  Further, when a circuit for providing the delay time t1 cannot be installed inside the control unit 4, a delay circuit 30 may be separately installed as shown in FIG. By adopting such a configuration, there is an advantage that the control unit 4 or the impulse test apparatus 11 can be miniaturized at the same time that the same effect as the above embodiment can be obtained.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6, a method of installing the delay circuit 30 inside the detector 2 may be used. With such a configuration, the same electrical performance as that of the circuit configuration shown in FIGS. 1 and 5 can be obtained, and at the same time, the system of the impulse test apparatus 11 can be simplified.

Example 2
A second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. In FIG. 7, reference numeral 31 denotes a voltage divider that outputs a voltage value of, for example, 1/1000 of the voltage applied to the product under test 6, and 32 denotes a voltage signal output from the voltage divider. In FIG. 8, reference numeral 33 denotes a voltage measurement circuit that measures a voltage signal from the voltage divider 31 and outputs a gate open signal to the gate circuit 21 in accordance with the voltage value.

  Next, the operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 4, it is known that the electromagnetic pulse by the partial discharge is generated at the timing when a high voltage is applied to the product under test 6. Therefore, the voltage measurement circuit 33 outputs a gate opening signal when, for example, a voltage exceeding 70% of the maximum value of the impulse voltage is applied.

  By adopting such a configuration, it is possible to prevent erroneous determination due to switching noise generated in the impulse generator as in the first embodiment. Further, since the gate circuit is closed when the test is not being performed, the internal elements can be protected, and the reliability is improved.

Example 3 FIG.
A third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. Reference numeral 10 denotes the synchronization signal described in the first embodiment. In this embodiment, power is supplied to the LNA 24 in the detector 2 in synchronization with the application of the impulse voltage. That is, when the synchronization signal 10 is input, the switch circuit 33 is closed and the power supplied to the power line 34 is supplied to the LNA 24.

  With this configuration, the LNA 24 amplifies the signal from the antenna 1 only when the synchronization signal 10 is input, and outputs the amplified signal to the detector 25. Therefore, as in the first embodiment, erroneous determination due to switching noise is performed. Therefore, a highly reliable test apparatus can be provided.

It is a block diagram which shows the whole structure of the partial discharge inspection apparatus which concerns on Example 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure inside the detector of the partial discharge inspection apparatus which concerns on Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a gate circuit. It is a graph which shows the impulse waveform applied to the to-be-tested product at the time of an impulse test, the electromagnetic wave pulse waveform which generate | occur | produces by partial discharge, and these time relationships. It is a block diagram which shows the principal part of the other partial discharge inspection apparatus which concerns on Example 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the principal part of the other partial discharge inspection apparatus which concerns on Example 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the whole structure of the partial discharge inspection apparatus which concerns on Example 2 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure inside the detector of the partial discharge inspection apparatus which concerns on Example 2 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure inside the detector of the partial discharge inspection apparatus which concerns on Example 3 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the conventional partial discharge test | inspection apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

1 antenna, 2 detector, 3 microwave sensor, 4 control unit,
5 impulse generator, 6 device under test, 7 electromagnetic wave, 8 signal processor,
9 display unit, 10 synchronization signal, 11 impulse test device,
21 gate circuit, 22 limiter, 23 filter, 24 low noise amplifier,
25 detectors, 26 amplifiers, 30 delay circuits, 41 motors,
42, 43, 44 coils, 45 high voltage power supply, 46 voltage control unit,
47 antenna, 48a, 48b A / D converter, 49 current sensor,
50a, 50b FFT analysis unit, 61 noise determination unit, 62 display unit,
63 Insulation test equipment.

Claims (4)

An impulse generator for applying a high-voltage impulse signal to the device under test; an antenna for receiving an electromagnetic wave signal generated by a discharge in the device under test by applying the impulse signal; and applying the impulse signal to the electromagnetic wave signal A gate circuit that outputs to the subsequent stage in synchronization with the detector, a detector that detects the electromagnetic wave signal output from the gate circuit, and a signal processing unit that determines the pass / fail of the device under test based on the magnitude of the detection signal. The partial discharge inspection apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned. 2. The partial discharge inspection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a signal synchronized with the impulse signal sent to the gate circuit is sent to the gate circuit after a certain delay time from the start of application of the impulse signal. An impulse generator for applying a high voltage impulse signal to the device under test; an antenna for receiving an electromagnetic wave signal generated by the discharge in the device under test by applying the impulse signal; and A gate circuit that outputs to the subsequent stage when the voltage value exceeds the value, a detector that detects the electromagnetic wave signal output from the gate circuit, and signal processing that determines pass / fail of the product under test based on the magnitude of the detected signal And a partial discharge inspection apparatus. An impulse generator for applying a high voltage impulse signal to the device under test, an antenna for receiving an electromagnetic wave signal generated by the discharge in the device under test by applying the impulse signal, and a low noise amplifier for amplifying the electromagnetic wave signal A switch circuit for supplying power to the low noise amplifier in synchronization with the application of the impulse signal, a detector for detecting an electromagnetic wave signal output from the amplifier, and a device under test based on the magnitude of the detection signal A partial discharge inspection apparatus comprising: a signal processing unit that determines whether the product is acceptable or not.

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