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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2021
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Marvin Tannhäuser, Hausen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A circuit breaker protects an electric low-voltage circuit and contains a mechanical separating contact unit, which has an open state of its contacts in order to prevent a current flow in the low-voltage circuit or a closed state of the contacts for a current flow in the low-voltage circuit, and an electronic interruption unit, which is connected in series to the mechanical separating contact unit on the circuit side and which, as a result of semiconductor-based switch elements, has a high-ohmic state of the switch elements in order to prevent a current flow or a low-ohmic state of the switch elements for a current flow in the low-voltage circuit. The level of the current of the low-voltage circuit is ascertained, and if at least one current threshold or a current/time threshold is exceeded, a process for preventing a current flow in the low-voltage circuit is initiated.