Multiphase tripping device with short-circuit detection

• US 4,858,057 A
• Filed: 08/31/1988
• Issued: 08/15/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Goth, Kurt, Maier, Reinhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Paschall, M. H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US07/240,411
• Time in Patent Office: 349 Days
• Field of Search: 361/22, 361/24, 361/28, 361/30, 361/31, 361/78, 361/79, 361/82-85, 361/87
• US Class Current: 361/94
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/52 Testing for short-circuits, leakage current or ground faults
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 3/42 responsive to product of voltage and current

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for picking-up voltage and for comparing the instantaneous powers of the individual phases with each other, the output of which is in functional connection with the tripping command transmitter in the event of a predetermined deviation.

Claims

1. An electronic overcurrent tripping device which senses short circuit current in a multiphase grid with a grid frequency, comprising:

means for sensing an instantaneous current and an instantaneous voltage in each phase;

means for multiplying each instantaneous current and voltage for obtaining an instantaneous power for each phase;

means for filtering out all dc components of said instantaneous powers, having a passing frequency of twice said grid frequency to generate filtered signals;

a summing circuit, coupled to said means for filtering, which sums the filtered signals to generate a summing output signal;

a comparison circuit, coupled to said summing circuit, which determines when a deviation of said summing output signal exceeds a predetermined threshold level; and

a tripping command transmitter coupled to said comparison circuit and activated by said summing output signal when said summing output signal deviation exceeds said predetermined threshold level.

2. The overcurrent tripping device according to claim 1, further comprising a rectifier circuit coupled to said comparison circuit, and a symmetrizing members coupled between said means for filtering and said rectifier circuit.

3. The overcurrent tripping device according to claim 2, wherein said symmetrizing members include means for compensating assymmetries on a feeding side of said multiphase grid.

4. The overcurrent tripping device according to claim 1, wherein said comparison circuit includes a Schmitt trigger circuit and said tripping comand transmitter includes a time delay circuit and an AND gate which are both coupled to an output of said Schmitt trigger circuit.

5. The overcurrent tripping device according to claim 1, further comprising an integrating amplifier acting as a lowpass filter means for processing short circuits, a rectifier circuit coupled to said amplifier, and a Schmitt trigger and flip-flop coupled to said tripping command transmitter.