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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2017
Victor V. Aromin, West Warwick, RI (US);
David Durfee, Scituate, RI (US);
Petar Horvatic, Providence, RI (US);
Steven O'connell, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Victor V. Aromin, West Warwick, RI (US);
David Durfee, Scituate, RI (US);
Petar Horvatic, Providence, RI (US);
Steven O'Connell, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Tower Manufacturing Corp., Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
A programmable arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) is provided. The programmable AFCI includes a dual resistive shunt array for developing inputs to an analog front end which in turn develops trigger quantities for input to a programmable processor. The programmable processor determines if the trigger quantities, singularly, or in the aggregate, exceed predetermined thresholds. Determining the predetermined thresholds are exceeded the processor issues a trigger command to momentarily energize a delatching coil, thus removing AC mains power from a load.