The Boeing Company

N Evan Lurton

Robert Dennis Holley

Eugene V Solodovnik

Mark Eugene Liffring

Mark Stephen Shander

Todd Burton Brouwer

Terrance L Thomas

Thomas F Currier

Lowell W Schaffner

Jon J Dhondt

Carolyn Kerr

Robert D Holley

Mark S Shander

Todd B Brouwer

A solid state primary power switching network for modular equipment centers (MECs) distributing primary power throughout a vehicle. The solid state primary power switching network includes multiple primary power switch network devices (PPSNDs) of a MEC for controlling and distributing primary power to other MECs spatially distribute throughout a vehicle. In one or more configurations, the PPSNDs have a universal structure in that each includes a common power input source and a plurality of common power outputs. In one or more configurations, primary power sources to the vehicle are switched without a perceivably visible break in power.

Modular equipment center solid state primary power switching network

The present disclosure is generally directed to a plurality of solid state switches of varying periphery sizes connected in series between a power source and a load. A built-in test circuit senses an overvoltage condition across one or more of the varying periphery sizes and opens or closes the one or more of the varying periphery sizes in accordance with a measured voltage across at least one solid state switch of the plurality of solid state switches.

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Issquah, WA, United States of America

N Evan Lurton