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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2013
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Lanson D. Relyea, Moon Township, PA (US);
Kevin L. Parker, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of tripping a circuit interrupter in a back fed configuration is provided, wherein the circuit interrupter has separable contacts and an actuator, such as a solenoid, operatively coupled to the separable contacts. The method includes detecting within the circuit interrupter that a fault condition exists, and subsequent to detecting that the fault condition exists, determining whether a current is flowing within the circuit interrupter between a load side of the circuit interrupter and the separable contacts, and controlling operation of the actuator based on whether the current is flowing within the circuit interrupter.