Eaton Corporation

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited

Richard Blaine Frye, Iv

Zachary Ryan Jenkins

Brad Robert Leccia

Douglas Michael Brandt

Anthony Thomas Ricciuti

David Len Walls

The present disclosure provides a conductive member for a circuit breaker high voltage portion conductor assembly, the conductive member including a body with a transfer portion and a coupling portion. The body transfer portion has an electro-thermally efficient contour. That is, the body transfer portion has an electrically efficient contour and a thermally efficient contour. The body transfer portion includes a number of slots defining fins. In this configuration, the body transfer portion distributes current generally evenly across a cross-sectional area of the conductive member body. Further, the fins provide heat dissipation via convection.

Medium voltage breaker conductor with an electrically efficient contour

Conductor

A grounding and test device includes a chassis configured to be removably installed in a drawout switchgear compartment (e.g., a breaker compartment) having a load conductor and a line conductor therein. The device also includes an interconnection bus supported by the chassis and a ground conductor supported by the chassis. The device further includes a first vacuum circuit interrupter supported by the chassis and configured to selectively couple and decouple the interconnection bus and the line conductor, a second vacuum circuit interrupter supported by the chassis and configured to selectively couple and decouple the interconnection bus and the load conductor and a third vacuum circuit interrupter supported by the chassis and configured to selectively couple and decouple the interconnection bus and the ground conductor.

Complex electrically operated ground and test device using vacuum circuit interrupters and methods of operating the same

The disclosed concept pertains to systems and methods to control the passing or entering of a circuit breaker into a cell. The concept relates to employing a RFID-actuated circuit breaker coding interlock. The interlock includes a circuit breaker having a RFID tag that stores information relating to the circuit breaker and a cell structured to receive the circuit breaker. The cell includes a blocking mechanism moveable between a blocking condition which prevents insertion of the circuit breaker into the cell and a non-blocking condition which permits insertion of the circuit breaker into the cell, and an RFID reader module structured to wirelessly receive the information from the RFID tag and determine whether to move the blocking mechanism from the blocking condition to the non-blocking condition based on the information.

RFID actuated breaker coding interlock

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Aliquippa, PA, United States of America

Richard Blaine Frye, Iv