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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2011
Blaine Madison Mucklow, Atlanta, GA (US);
Blaine Madison Mucklow, Atlanta, GA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Circuit component connectivity evaluation and validation method provides comparing and validating the correctness of electrical phase connectivity at connection nodes between conducting components within a circuit model of a power distribution network or other circuit. Phase connectivity requirements of each connected component/device/equipment in a particular circuit are obtained from a Common Interface Model (CIM) file containing parameter data describing the circuit. XML data strings obtained from the CIM file are parsed into enumerated data objects representing each component's phase connectivity requirements and assigned unique four bit binary phase connectivity mask values indicative of the particular electrical phase connectivity requirements of each component. Associated mask values corresponding to connection nodes between pairs of connected components are bit-wise logically 'AND'ed and the result compared to each component's bit mask to validate that each connected component in the circuit is a correct phase type match with other components to which it is connected.