AUTOMOTIVE CURRENT TRANSDUCER OPEN LOOP TECHNOLOGY
HC5FW 500-S
Introduction
Principle of HC5FW Family
The HC5FW family is for the electronic measurement of DC, AC The open loop transducers use a Hall effect integrated circuit.
or pulsed currents in high power and low voltage automotive The magnetic flux density B, contributing to the rise of the Hall
applications with galvanic separation between the primary voltage, is generated by the primary current IP to be measured.
The current to be measured IP is supplied by a current source
i.e. battery or generator (Figure 1).
circuit (high power) and the secondary circuit (electronic circuit).
Within the linear region of the hysteresis cycle, B is proportional
to:
The HC5FW family gives you the choice of having different
current measuring ranges in the same housing.
B (IP) = constant (a) x IP
The Hall voltage is thus expressed by:
VH= (RH/d) x I x constant (a) x IP
Features
● Open Loop transducer using the Hall effect
● Low voltage application
Except for IP, all terms of this equation are constant.
Therefore:
● Unipolar + 5 V DC power supply
VH = constant (b) x IP
● Primary current measuring range up to ± 500 A
● Maximum RMS primary current limited by the busbar, the
magnetic core or the ASIC temperature T° < + 150 °C
● Operating temperature range: - 40 °C < T° < + 125 °C
● Output voltage: full ratiometric (sensitivity and offset)
● High speed transducer.
The measurement signal VH amplified to supply the user output
voltage or current.
Advantages
● Good accuracy
● Good linearity
● Low thermal offset drift
● Low thermal sensitivity drift.
Fig. 1: Principle of the open loop transducer
Automotive applications
● Electrical Power Steering
● Starter Generators
● Converters.
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