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Switching apparatus and method for a segment of an electric power line

  • US 6,727,604 B2
  • Filed: 05/24/2002
  • Issued: 04/27/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A switching apparatus for a segment of an electric power line having several phase lines, each of the phase lines having several conductors electrically insulated one from the other and connected in parallel for conducting a phase current, the conductors of each phase line being short-circuited among them at two ends of the segment, the apparatus comprising:

  • a plurality of switches, each one of said switches opening and closing a corresponding one of said several conductors of said phase lines, wherein all said conductors of said phase lines are controlled by said switches; and

    a control circuit controlling said switches for said conductors of said phase lines and providing a conduction path in each one of said phase lines at all times.

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