METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF COMPONENTS IN AN ELECTRICAL LOW-VOLTAGE SWITCHGEAR ASSEMBLY

• US 20110193690A1
• Filed: 06/24/2008
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: THAMM, Peter, Fröhlich, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 8,917,164 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.42
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2300/03 Application domotique, e.g. for house automation, bus connected switches, sensors, loads or intelligent wiring
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 71/0271 Mounting several complete assembled circuit breakers together interconnected mechanisms H01H71/1009
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 11/02 Details
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/14 Protecting elements, switches, relays or circuit breakers
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/20 End-user application control systems

Abstract

In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for identification of components in an electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly is disclosed. The electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly according to one embodiment of the invention includes at least one truck module, which can be positioned in a truck slot. In at least one embodiment, both the truck slot and the truck module include associated devices for wire-free communication, wherein the communication devices are designed to transmit and/or receive data which is relevant for an automatic identification of the truck slot and/or the truck module, and allow automatic association of these components with one another.

Claims

1. A method for an electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly associated with at least one truck module which is positionable in a truck slot, the method comprising:

at least one of

transmitting data by communication devices, relevant for the identification of at least one of the truck slot and the truck module, wirelessly; and

receiving the data wirelessly by communication devices, the communication devices being associated with at least one of the truck module and the truck slot, such that automatic identification of at least one of the truck slot and the truck module results, allowing automatic association of the truck module and the truck slot with one another.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the transmitting and receiving of the data that is relevant for identification takes place during or immediately after assembly of the truck module in the truck slot.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication device associated with at least one of the truck slot and the communication device associated with the truck module receives data that is relevant for identification from the communication device which is associated with the respectively corresponding component.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the communication device associated with at least one of the truck slot and the truck module transmits the data, that is relevant for identification to at least one of a local enabling unit associated with at least one of the truck slot and the truck module, to a remote enabling unit associated with at least one of the truck slot and the truck module.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein at least one of the truck module and the truck slot is enabled to operate with the corresponding component upon verification of the identification-related data being completed successfully.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein at least one of the truck module and the truck slot is adapted for operation with the corresponding component before enabling takes place.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein, after enabling has taken place, at least one of the truck module and the truck slot is supplied with data which is adapted to operation with the corresponding component.

11. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of the transmitting and receiving of the data that is relevant for identification takes place during or immediately after assembly of the truck module in the truck slot, and takes place automatically.

12. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein, upon verification of the identification-related data not being completed successfully, at least one of the truck module and the truck slot remains or is blocked for such operation.

13. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein, after enabling has taken place, at least one of the truck module and the truck slot is supplied with data which is adapted to operation with the corresponding component.

8. An electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly for at least one truck module which is positionable in a truck slot, comprising:

at least one device for wireless communication, associated with both the truck slot and the at least one truck module, the communication devices being configured to at least one of transmit and receive data, relevant for automatic identification of at least one of the truck slot and the at least one truck module, to allow automatic association of the truck slot and the at least one truck module with one another.

9. The electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly as claimed in claim 8, further comprising means for automatic identification of at least one of the truck slot and the at least one truck module.

10. The electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly as claimed in claim 9, further comprising at least one of:

a local enabling unit associated with at least one of the truck slot and the at least one truck module and

a remote enabling unit associated with at least one of the truck slot and the at least one truck module,

the at least one of the local enabling unit and the remote enabling unit being configured to verify the data that is relevant for identification and to make a decision regarding the enabling of at least one of the truck slot and the at least one truck module.

14. A method for an electrical low-voltage switchgear assembly associated with at least one truck module which is positionable in a truck slot, the method comprising:

receiving data, relevant for the identification of at least one of the truck slot and the truck module, wirelessly at communication devices, the communication devices being associated with at least one of the truck module and the truck slot, such that automatic identification of at least one of the truck slot and the truck module results, allowing automatic association of the truck module and the truck slot with one another.