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Method of synchronous circuit opening of generator circuit breaker, and its control apparatus

US6501628B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateNov 28, 2000
Grant dateDec 31, 2002
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Expiry dateNov 28, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01H33/006
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

To provide a method of synchronous circuit opening of generator circuit breaker and its control apparatus that can protect a sound generator system of a generator main circuit from a phenomenon that current may not pass through current zero for many cycles.There is provided a construction where a generator exciting current control is incorporated into a control mechanism. In case that an occurrence possibility of a phenomenon that current may not pass through current zero for many cycles can be anticipated, time delay is intentionally caused by timer so as to prevent synchronism of the phenomenon, using an output signal of a generator lock-out relay which covers individual element of an electrical fault causing the phenomenon or in which circuit all those elements are integrated. In case that the phenomenon can be anticipated by calculation, a reactive power output of a generator is increased and consequently AC current amplitude of a sound generator is increased so as to eliminate the phenomenon.

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