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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jiwu Duan, Tucson, AZ (US);
John C. Elliott, Tucson, AZ (US);
Dennis W. Fried, Tucson, AZ (US);
Steven M. Groff, Tucson, AZ (US);
Trung Le, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A power system which includes a battery (or string of batteries) as well as a preemptive fuse driver, PFD, system. The PFD protection system reliably protects circuits that could be damaged by long term fault currents. More specifically, the PFD protection system includes a sensor and a controller as well as a controlled switch. The controller includes a PFD control module which allows protection to be tuned specifically to the source and load characteristics.