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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2019
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
James Mobley, Moscow, ID (US);
Shankar V. Achanta, Pullman, WA (US);
Raymond W. Rice, Pullman, WA (US);
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure pertains to detection of a broken conductor in an electric power system. In one embodiment, a broken conductor detector may be configured to be mounted to an electrical conductor and may comprise a communication subsystem configured to transmit a signal configured to indicate that the conductor is broken. A sensor may determine a plurality of vectors. A processing subsystem may be configured to receive the plurality of vectors from the sensor and to identify when the vector is outside of a range defined by a threshold value. The processing subsystem may determine that the conductor is falling based on the plurality of vectors remaining outside of the threshold for a period of time determined by the timer subsystem. A signal may be transmitted by the communication subsystem to indicate that the conductor is falling.