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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Walter Schmidt, Bellikon, CH;
Assignee:
Asae Brown Boveri AG, , CH;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361118 ; 361 936 ; 340653 ; 340664 ;
Abstract
The electrical apparatus, which is preferably designed as a surge arrester (3), has an apparatus, which contains a current sensor, for indicating a fault state caused by a fault current (I). The indicating apparatus furthermore contains a receiver (read station 9), which can be operated from ground potential, for electromagnetic waves as well as an information carrier (8) which interacts with the current sensor and emits electromagnetic waves to the receiver (9). In such an apparatus, the fault state can be identified independently of optical signals.