Schneider Electric Sa

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Pascal Houbre

Pierre Schueller

Pierre Laffont

Claude Rubbo

The current transformer comprises a magnetic circuit and a secondary winding. The magnetic circuit is formed by stacked metal plates. Each plate comprises a cut-out without an air-gap. The magnetic circuit comprises a fixed first part enabling the secondary winding to be received and a flexible second part able to be momentarily deformed. The current transformer is advantageously used in protection relays and electronic trip devices of circuit breakers.

Current transformer and its manufacturing process

A trip device comprises at least one current transformer for supplying power to electronic circuits. The current transformer comprises a magnetic circuit, surrounding a primary conductor, a secondary winding wound onto a part of the magnetic circuit forming a core, and a magnetic shunt branch connected on the magnetic core. The magnetic shunt comprises an air-gap. When the current flowing in the primary conductor is of low value, the magnetic flux stopped by the air-gap flows essentially via the core of the secondary winding. At high current levels the induction is greater and a large part of the magnetic flux passes through the shunt via the air-gap. The current transformer has a non-linear current response which limits excess power supplied to the electronic circuits and dissipated in the transformer. The trip device is useful, for example, in a circuit breaker.

Trip device comprising at least one current transformer

A measuring assembly is formed by association of a current sensor with non-magnetic toroid and a supply transformer with magnetic circuit arranged around the toroid. The first secondary winding of the current sensor is located nearer the primary conductor than the second secondary winding of the supply transformer.

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Pascal Houbre