General Electric Company

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Somashekhar Basavaraj

William James Premerlani

Ertugrul Berkcan

Emad Andarawis Andarawis

Kanakasabapathi Subramanian

Daniel White Sexton

Austars Raymond Schnore, Jr

Marc Robert Pearlman

Samantha Rao

Ramakrishna Rao

Eugene Joseph Orlowski, Jr

Rahul Gore

Scott Charles Evans

Stephen Daley Arthur

Christopher Fred Keimel

Ahmed Elasser

John Norton Park

Thomas F Papallo

Changting Wang

Charles Scott Sealing

Terry Michael Topka

Joshua Isaac Wright

Shobhana Mani

Mingxiao Jiang

Ajit Achuthan

Wensen Wang

Daniel Lawrence Morrill

Indra Purkayastha

Kristina Margaret Korosi

Rahul "Omkar" Plot No 10 Teacher's Colony Gore

Jr Eugene Joseph Orlowaki

Robert Pearlman Marc

Wang Wensen

A micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) switch array for power switching includes an input node, an output node, and a plurality of MEMS switches, wherein the input node and the output node are independently in electrical communication with a portion of the plurality of MEMS switches, and wherein a failure of any one of the plurality of MEMS switches does not render ineffective another MEMS switch within the MEMS switch array.

Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) switch arrays

A system is presented. The system includes detection circuitry configured to detect occurrence of a zero crossing of an alternating source voltage or an alternating load current. The system also includes switching circuitry coupled to the detection circuitry and comprising a micro-electromechanical system switch. Additionally, the system includes control circuitry coupled to the detection circuitry and the switching circuitry and configured to perform arc-less switching of the micro-electromechanical system switch responsive to a detected zero crossing of an alternating source voltage or alternating load current.

Micro-electromechanical system based soft switching

A protection system for a power distribution system is provided. The protection system includes a central computer, a plurality of data modules, and a data network. The data modules are each in communication with a different circuit breaker of the power distribution system. The data network communicates between the central computer and the plurality of data modules. The central computer sends an instruction to the plurality of data modules over the data network to aid in synchronization of sampling of a power condition at the plurality of data modules.

Protection system for power distribution systems

A method and apparatus for operating a power distribution system circuit breaker is provided. The circuit breaker includes an associated node electronics unit wherein a node electronics unit redundancy requirement is predetermined. The method includes monitoring electrical system parameters associated with the circuit breaker with the node electronics unit, communicating the electrical system parameters over a digital network to at least one central control processing unit, receiving commands and actions from the at least one central control processing unit over the digital network, determining circuit breaker actuation commands based at least partially on the received commands and actions, and operating the circuit breaker based on the circuit breaker actuation commands.

Method and apparatus for node electronics unit architecture

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Somashekhar Basavaraj