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Circuit breaker with digital solid-state trip unit fitted with a calibration circuit

US4682264A · kind A · utility

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6Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 10, 1986
Grant dateJul 21, 1987
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 10, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02H3/05
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Microprocessor-based solid-state trip unit (48) processing digital signals derived from analog signals supplied by current sensors (16). The analog signals are applied to a calibration circuit (34), which adapts the output range of the analog circuits to that of the logic circuits, to obtain with an 8-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (50) associated with a Multiplexer (29) a range equivalent to that of 12-bit processing systems.

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