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7538519 Information handling system with battery protected from non-permanent failures  
In a method and system for protecting a battery being charged by an electrical device, a current flowing through a cell stack of the battery is measured. If the measured current is greater than a...
7218496 Overcurrent protection circuit  
The voltage generator circuit includes a regulator, a first sensor circuit, and a second sensor circuit. The first sensor circuit includes a first transistor, a first resistor, and an error...
7064946 Electronic fuse  
An electronic fuse comprising an integrated circuit having a control output terminal coupled to a control electrode of a power semiconductor switching device, the power semiconductor switching...
6882511 Electronic earth leakage current device  
An electronic leakage current device a low-voltage power line, comprising: a moving contact and a fixed contact which can be mutually coupled/uncoupled; first sensor means for detecting a...
6842322 Electronic trip device comprising a capacitor for supply of a trip coil  
The trip device comprises a system-powered power supply circuit comprising a capacitor for power supply of a trip coil. When the trip device is powered on, the capacitor charges and its voltage is...
6747860 Power-supply feedthrough protection circuit for 5-volt failsafe CMOS drivers  
A power supply feedthrough protection circuit which solves the problem of voltage feedthrough from a bus cable charging a chip power-supply beyond acceptable transistor limits. The circuit...
6731487 Method and devices for optimizing power consumption of trip units containing microprocessors  
A method is provided for optimizing the power consumption of a trip unit. The method comprises sensing a first output from a power system, the first output including a first current and a...
6721154 Apparatus and method for representing protection device trip response  
A method and apparatus generates an enhanced trip time curve capable of capturing both the non-sinusoidal energy and series effects. Relevant data including time, current, and energy is plotted on...
6696708 Electrostatic discharge protection apparatus  
The present invention reveals an electrostatic discharge protection apparatus including a silicon controlled rectifier, a triggering voltage adapter network and a holding voltage adapter network....
6633474 Selective electronic tripping element  
The instantaneous tripping threshold of the selective tripping device is a decreasing function of a quantity representative of the time necessary for the current to reach the peak value. The...
6552675 Electrical protection device with analog-to-digital converter of the sigma-delta type  
The electrical protection device comprises a plurality of sensors, a multiplexer and a sigma-delta type analog-to-digital converter. The converter comprises a sigma-delta modulator in series with a...
6542345 Circuit breaker  
In order to provide a circuit breaker, in particular a residual-current circuit breaker or residual-current device, having a variable time delay, which firstly has a stable no-trip response to...
6534991 Connection tester for an electronic trip unit  
A trip unit connection tester ( 10 ) is arranged to test the electrical connections ( 12 ) and ( 14 ) between a trip unit ( 16 ) and actuator ( 18 ) mounted within a circuit breaker ( 20 ). Tester...
6529358 Driver protection circuit for preventing damage due to line contact with ground or supply voltage  
This circuit is inserted between a terminal (RGB) and a line (LI). The signal of the input terminal (RGB) is applied to the base of a bipolar amplifier transistor (T 2 ) mounted with a top load (LR...
6504694 Circuit breaker system with ASM instantaneous overcurrent indication  
A circuit breaker system ( 100 ) providing application specific module (ASM) instantaneous overcurrent indication is disclosed herein (FIG. 5 ). A trip unit ( 110 ) included in the circuit breaker...
6466029 Power line testing device with signal generator and signal detector  
A power line testing device has a signal generator that is adapted to be connected to one of a plurality of AC branch circuits, and generates an identification signal. This identification signal...
6377431 Non-automatic power circuit breaker including trip mechanism which is disabled after closure of separable contacts  
A non-automatic power circuit breaker includes separable contacts for movement between a closed position and an open position, and an operating mechanism for moving the separable contacts between...
6295190 Circuit breaker arrangement with integrated protection, control and monitoring  
A PCM module arrangement includes a three phase circuit breaker and PCM electronics unit. Each phase of the circuit breaker has a Rogowski coil at the line side and load side contacts in a vacuum...
6279115 Circuit arrangement for monitoring of an electric tripping device for low-voltage switches  
A circuit arrangement is described for monitoring an electronic tripping device for low-voltage switches having a microprocessor device which, in conjunction with a digital-analog converter,...
6195243 Method and apparatus for adaptive configuration and control in a network of electronic circuit breakers  
A system including a load center monitor (10) connected to a plurality of digitally enhanced circuit breakers (40) by a communication bus (26) forms a network of reconfigurable circuit breakers...
6185482 System and method for rms overcurrent backup function  
A method and apparatus for over current backup protection is provided. The method generates a set of root mean square (rms) values from samples that are taken from the system current. Several rms...
6175479 Instantaneous protection device and method for a circuit breaker  
The present invention involves a power circuit breaker that conditionally and temporarily enables instantaneous trip protection. A position sensor senses whether the breaker contacts are open or...
6081729 Encapsulated tubular conductor  
An encapsulated tubular conductor having at least two antenna elements disposed on the capsule thereof for maintaining therebetween wireless information transmission in a transmitting-receiving...
6018300 Fault monitoring  
6011416 Switch circuit having excess-current detection function  
A microcomputer 4 responds to an instruction signal to turn the load L on or off to control the FET 2 through the drive circuit 5. The microcomputer 4 samples an electric current I L which is...
5943204 Electronic trip unit with dedicated override current sensor  
An electronic trip unit for a circuit breaker having two current sensors per phase, wherein the first magnetic core current transformer is designed to monitor current in the normal and overcurrent...
5926355 Electrical switching apparatus employing battery-powered indicator  
A circuit breaker includes separable contacts for movement between a closed position and an open position. An operating mechanism moves the separable contacts between the closed and open positions...
5877691 Circuit breaker with a circuit breaker unit and processing, calibration and communication modules  
The circuit breaker comprises a circuit breaker unit onto which there are fixed a communication module, a processing module and a calibration module. The communication module communicates with the...
5875088 Electrical switching apparatus employing interlocks for first and second trip functions  
A circuit breaker includes separable contacts for movement between a closed position and an open position. An operating mechanism, which moves the separable contacts between the closed and open...
5856903 Matching overcurrent characteristic curves  
A method for configuring a digital overcurrent relay to provide a plurality of selectable time overcurrent characteristic responses corresponding to a plurality of target curves. According to one...
5838776 Power controller for a heating/air conditioning unit  
A power controller for a powered device such as a heating/air conditioning unit that monitors and controls the supply of power to an individual heating/air conditioning unit and shuts off power to...
5825643 Programming device for a circuit breaker  
A portable programming device is provided for communicating with and downloading tripping characteristics to a circuit breaker electronic trip unit. The programming device incorporates an umbilical...
5747955 Current sensing module for a variable speed AC motor drive for use with a treadmill  
A current sensing module for use with a variable speed AC motor control drive system for use with devices such as treadmills and including a module to sense the current of pulse width modulated...
5691871 Test circuit for electrical switching device  
A motor starter for an electrical circuit including a power source and a load, includes an electrical contactor having separable contacts for switching an electrical current flowing between the...
5680052 Fault indicator tester with test bar and test chamber  
A testing apparatus for testing a sample fault indicator (11) of the type which has a current sensor (15), an automatic reset, an inrush restraint feature, and an indicator display (13) that are...
5656931 Fault current sensor device with radio transceiver  
A fault current sensor device detects and distinguishes abnormal current events on alternating current overhead and underground power transmission lines. The sensor distinguishes whether the...
5627716 Overcurrent protection device  
A microprocessor based overcurrent trip unit includes an analog circuit for monitoring phase currents in the electrical interrupting device. The analog circuit is adapted to interface with the...
5581471 Method and apparatus for storing electric power measurements  
An electronic instrument that records electric power measurements. The instrument contains two types of memories: the first type of memory can tolerate wide fluctuations in ambient temperature but...
5500781 Digital circuit interrupter with multiple accessory function  
An integrated circuit breaker having several accessory functions along with automatic overcurrent protection, allows selection between the various accessory functions in different combinations....
5471359 Polyphase current monitor and control system  
A solid state sensing and control device for monitoring either D.C. or A.C. currents of one or more phases that is ideal for protecting motors and other A.C. loads. The programmable monitoring...
5426592 Circuit breaker trip unit which automatically adapts to operated with a particular display module  
The present invention provides a circuit breaker trip unit configured to operate with a plurality of different plug-in display units. The display unit includes a memory which stores data...
5367427 Overcurrent trip unit with indication of dependency of trip functions  
A graphical representation of the current/time trip characteristic displayed on the operator's panel of an electronic trip unit for a circuit interrupter, has different indicia, such as different...
5335135 Fault recording system for an electric power trip unit  
A low voltage electric power monitoring and circuit breaker system includes two processors. The first processor activates the circuit breaker when an overcurrent condition is detected and the...
5331501 Electrical switching apparatus with digital trip unit and memory reset  
A microprocessor based switch such as a circuit breaker has a memory capacitor charged by the microprocessor to generate an analog equivalent of a digitally modelled heat state signal. A selected...
5311392 Dual processor electric power trip unit  
A low voltage electric power monitoring and circuit breaker system includes two processors. The first processor activates the circuit breaker when an overcurrent condition is detected and the...
5307230 Circuit breaker with protection against sputtering arc faults  
A circuit breaker includes an electronic trip device which responds to sputtering arc-type faults. Level detectors compare the current in the protected circuit to a plurality of threshold levels...
5270898 Sure chip plus  
A hybrid monolithic IC that is standardized for controlling various types of electrical equipment, such as circuit breakers, motor controllers and the like. The IC is a hybrid monolithic IC,...
5216352 Solid state current controlled interruption system  
A solid state circuit interruption arrangement monitors a current path to provide protection to both a load and a solid state switch. The arrangement includes an energy absorber for absorbing...
5208720 Electronic trip device with short delay function  
The short time delay circuit comprises a counter which is zero reset when the signal representative of the current is greater than or equal to a threshold, and controls count-down of an up-down...
5195012 Electronic trip device comprising an improved long delay function  
To perform the long delay function of an electronic trip device, a quantity (TLR1) representative of the thermal current state varies proportionally to the difference (I 2 -Is 2 ) between the...
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