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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2013
Applicants:

Stmicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;

Stmicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);

Inventors:

Oleg Logvinov, East Brunswick, NJ (US);

Roberto Cappelletti, Cornaredo, IT;

Mauro Conti, Agrate Brianza, IT;

Assignee:

STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 31/12 (2006.01); G01R 31/02 (2006.01); H04B 3/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/024 (2013.01); H04B 3/54 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5458 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5495 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method of operating an arc fault detection system, an arc fault detection system, and a system. An embodiment is a method of operating an arc fault detection system coupled to a power line, the method including determining one or more arc fault detection windows in power line signals on the power line, the power line signals comprising a communication signal and an alternating current (AC) power signal. The method further includes receiving the power line signals from the power line during the one or more arc fault detection windows, and performing arc fault detection processing on the received power line signals.


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