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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:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary R. Hoffman, Randolph, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/00 ; H02H 5/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/00 ; H02H 5/04 ;
Abstract
A substation for distributing electric power includes protective relays whose trip points are made to be a function of temperature, the protective relays being used to control the opening and closing of circuit breakers for protecting against fault conditions in at least one of the power input and power output portions of the power distribution system. In one embodiment, a temperature probe which is used to sense the temperature at a selected point of the substation supplies the temperature information to a microcontroller which is programmed to set the trip point of selected protective relays as a function of the sensed temperature.