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7599161 Relay device and corresponding method  
A method of operating a relay device, in an electrical circuit comprising first and second main circuit breakers, and a bus tie circuit breaker connecting the first and second main circuit...
7542256 Relay device and corresponding method  
A method of operating a relay device, the method comprising the steps of: providing main circuit-breakers and a bus-tie-breaker connecting the main-circuit-breakers; defining a...
7535233 Traveling wave based relay protection  
An apparatus includes at least one Rogowski coil and a processor. The at least one Rogowski coil is positioned within an electrical power distribution network to detect a first traveling wave...
7472026 Multi-ended fault location system  
A system and method for locating faults on multi-terminal power system transmission lines uses synchronized phasor measurements to accurately determine fault location and fault impedance regardless...
7457088 Systems and methods for protection of electrical networks  
A system and method for accomplishing power swing blocking and unstable power swing tripping schemes during disturbances of electrical networks is disclosed. The disclosed system and method...
7345863 Apparatus and method for identifying a loss of a current transformer signal in a power system  
Provided is an apparatus and method for identifying a specific lost current transformer (CT) signal of number of CT signals provided by a corresponding number of CTs coupling a protective device to...
7345862 Protective relay for power systems having fault distance measurement filter logic  
The system is used in a distance-type protective relay which includes a calculation circuit responsive to voltage and current values from a power line to produce a quantity which is analogous to...
7299143 Method and apparatus for improving operational reliability during a loss of a phase voltage  
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for improving operational reliability during a loss of a phase voltage (LOV) in a multi-phase power system, wherein a voltage...
7233470 Distance relay apparatus  
A distance relay apparatus includes a directional relay element which performs computation to detect a fault, which occurs in the forward direction from an installing point of the relay apparatus,...
7199989 Digital protection relay with time sync function  
In a digital protection relay with a time sync function, the sampling timing of which is specified based on a reference timing transmitted from a time signal generator to a time sync unit, with a...
7085938 Protective relay with embedded web server  
A protective relay having an embedded web server to allow communication with a remote device having a standard web browser package. The relay can receive and transmit HTML files according to the...
7050913 Method and apparatus for monitoring power quality in an electric power distribution system  
A composite power quality indication generated from user weighted statistical contributions of selected system parameters provides an overall indication of power quality in an electric power...
6989977 Digital directional relay  
A digital directional relay converts a voltage value and a current value of a power system into digital voltage data and digital current data by periodic sampling and determines a direction of a...
6944554 Method for detecting fault on transmission lines by using harmonics and state transition diagram  
Disclosed is a method for detecting a fault by using harmonics and a state transition diagram. When the fault occurs on transmission lines, the fault is detected by using harmonics and the state...
6924647 Fault location method and device  
The present invention relates to a method for calculating the distance to fault in a section of a power transmission network, which section is arranged with line terminals at both ends, each...
6879917 Double-ended distance-to-fault location system using time-synchronized positive-or negative-sequence quantities  
When a disturbance (for example, lightning strike) occurs on a high-voltage overhead transmission line, the line must be checked for any possible damage. If the distance-to-fault is known, line...
6873508 Protective relay system  
In a protective relay system according to an aspect of the present invention, a direction of a fault is correctly determined during system oscillation using one of a negative-phase-sequence relay...
6833711 Protective relay for powers systems having dependable out-of-step blocking capability  
The apparatus detects an out-of-step condition following the clearing of an external multi-phase fault in a protective relay. The apparatus includes a circuit which detects the presence of an...
6829544 Line current differential protective relaying method and relay for in-zone tapped transformers  
A line current differential protective relay and method for protecting transmission lines with power transformers tapped between the substations without any measurements taken at the tap point. The...
6760670 Crossover fault classification for power lines with parallel circuits  
The invention describes a method, system, device, and computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for classifying faults on an electrical power line. In particular, the...
6661630 Distance relay for protection of transmission line having minimized reactance effect  
A distance relay for protection of a transmission line, which is capable of estimating apparent impedances with respect to faults on the transmission line involving fault resistances, more...
6633166 Method for generating an error signal identifying a short circuit  
The invention is directed to a method for producing a fault signal indicating a short-circuit between a first phase conductor and a second phase conductor of two different, parallel-running,...
6498709 Digital distance relay  
A digital distance relay for deciding whether a fault point is within a stipulated operation region by obtaining an impedance to the fault point. The relay comprises: means for deciding whether the...
6483435 Method and device of fault location for distribution networks  
The present invention relates to a method for location of a fault which has occurred on one of a plurality of lines in a power distribution network where the location is performed with the measured...
6469629 Distributed logic in multiple protective relays  
A protective relay, system, and relay operation method which allows logic functions to be distributed amongst multiple protective relays associated with a power distribution system. The protective...
6459960 Distance relay equipment  
A short-circuit distance relay has a short-circuit distance relay element that calculates a fault impedance from voltage and current which are introduced from a power system and that compares the...
6426856 Method for monitoring a protective gear  
A method of operating a protective gear is described, in particular a remote protective gear for an electric power grid. In this method, a voltage signal is derived from the line voltage, and a...
6397155 Method and apparatus for automatically controlled gain switching of monitors  
A method and apparatus for automatically controlling gain switching of a monitor. To automatically control gain switching, an electronic circuit splits an input channel into a plurality of gain...
6392857 Device and process for protecting a line of a network of electricity supply lines  
This device for protecting a line ( 10, 12 ) of a network of supply lines comprises two protective relays ( 18, 20; 22, 24 ) furnished with means for detecting faults and a circuit breaker adapted...
6385022 Method and apparatus for deriving power system data from configurable source points  
A protective relay that derives and processes power system data from multiple user-configurable data source points. Data from multiple source points can be combined in the relay as a single source...
6369996 Fault protection scheme  
A method of protecting a section of a line is disclosed. The method comprises providing a local fault protection assembly at one end of the section distal from at least one remote fault protection...
6336059 Reach-measurement method for distance relays and fault locators on series-compensated transmission lines using local information  
A reach-measurement method is used in connection with a series-compensated line of a power system. The series-compensated line includes an installed series capacitance having a bus side and a line...
6324557 Combination exerciser gripper and calculator  
A combination exercise gripper and calculator includes an electronic calculator, with a keypad, a power source, a visual display means, such as a liquid crystal display, and a calculating computing...
6307723 Parallel-feeder directional overcurrent protection  
When directional overcurrent protection relays are included at the load end of a set of parallel feeders fed from an AC power source, a minimum fault-current threshold is specified based on the...
6239959 Ground distance relay for AC power transmission line protection  
An improved reactance characteristic for an overall ground distance quadrilateral characteristic embodies a particular phase selector, possibly among a plurality of phase selectors and variables,...
6222711 Bus-bar protection relay equipment  
A bus-bar protection relay equipment includes a data-acquisition means, a check zone protection means, a fault bus-bar judging means, and a tripping bus-bar judging means. A data-acquisition means...
6173216 Protective relay with improved, sub-window cosine filter  
As a variation of the non-orthogonal filter, a phasor estimate is computed by using an N-point window. An aspect of the sub-window cosine filter is to repeat the basic cosine filter for only...
6154687 Modified cosine filters  
A high sample rate cosine filter eliminates DC components by summing them such that they sum to zero. A non-orthogonal cosine filter is also provided. When the cosine filter is applied for N=4...
6137666 High speed, selective protective relays  
A protective relay receives current and voltage inputs, digitizes them and reduces the effects of high and low frequency noise. In the case of a distance relay, incorporated in the relay is a...
6046895 Distance protection method  
6028754 System for preventing undesired protective relay tripping actions due to coupling capacitor voltage transformer transients  
The system impedance ratio (SIR) is determined for the original zone 1 distance element reach of a protective relay. The reduction in the original zone 1 reach is then determined, using the SIR...
5956220 Adaptive distance protection system  
An adaptive distance relaying system provides improved performance for parallel circuit distance protection. The system utilizes the parallel circuit's current, when available, in conjunction with...
5878375 Data transfer switching device and method of use therefore  
A data switch for transferring data from either actual line readings or from stored memory to the input of a relay tester. The device uses a digital switch set between the A/D converter and the CPU...
5839093 System for locating faults and estimating fault resistance in distribution networks with tapped loads  
Both fault location and fault resistance of a fault are calculated by the present method and system. The method and system takes into account the effects of fault resistance and load flow, thereby...
5838525 High speed single-pole trip logic for use in protective relaying  
A protective relaying system includes a local protective relay operatively coupled to a protected line segment at a first location, and a remote protective relay operatively coupled to the...
5798932 Methods and apparatus for removing error due to decaying offsets from measured power system currents  
A digital decaying current offset correction method and apparatus, in one aspect, separates the requirements of detecting fault existence from the requirements of detecting fault location. Once the...
5796258 Adaptive quadrilateral characteristic distance relay  
A quadrilateral characteristic relay system for determining a fault associated with a multiple-phase electric power transmission system is disclosed. The system dynamically adapts one line of the...
5793595 Multi-application relay for power systems  
A microprocessor-based multifunction overcurrent relay for protecting power systems has a plurality of overcurrent elements implemented in a software program. Sufficient overcurrent elements are...
5790418 Adaptive polarizing memory voltage time constant  
At least two different time constants are used to produce the polarizing memory reference voltage which in turn is used in a protective relay for power transmission lines. For most conditions, a...
5783946 Fault type classification algorithm  
A process for identifying the type of fault detected by a protective relay includes measuring pre-fault and post-fault samples of current waveforms on the phase-A, phase-B and phase-C conductors of...
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