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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:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bryon I Edwards, Staffordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Alstom UK Limited, , GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/00 ;
Abstract
A trip circuit supervision circuit is disclosed for use in combination with a trip circuit comprising a circuit breaker trip coil connected in a supply line from a supply voltage and a trip relay contact connected in series with the circuit breaker trip coil. The supervision circuit is connected across the relay trip contact and includes a current sensing device. During normal operation, the supervision circuit draws a constant current from the supply line independent of supply voltage. Thus, changes in the current measured by the current sensing device enable the integrity of the supply voltage to be checked.