Accident point locating system

• US 6,741,916 B1
• Filed: 11/13/2000
• Issued: 05/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shirota, Yoshihiro, Sekiguchi, Katsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barnes, Crystal J
• Application Number:
  US09/709,493
• Time in Patent Office: 1,289 Days
• Field of Search: 700/20-22, 700/286, 700/292, 700/293, 700/296, 700/297, 700/306, 702/59, 702/187, 324/512, 340/310.01, 340/538, 340/3.43, 455/67.1, 379/14.01, 379/15.05, 379/22.03
• US Class Current: 700/292
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/085 in power transmission or distribution lines, e.g. overhead
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/088 Aspects of digital computing
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 3/042 combined with means for locating the fault locating faults in cables G01R31/08

Abstract

An accident point locating system locates an accident point on a power transmission line. A digital protective control system has a plurality of digital protective controllers that receive state data representing a state of an electric power system and convert the same into corresponding digital state data. An absolute time acquiring means acquires an absolute time when the state data is sampled. A state data processing decides whether any malfunction occurred in the power transmission system on the basis of the digital state and executes a protective operation when it is decided that an accident occurred in the power transmission system. A recording device adds an absolute sampling time to the digital state data and records the digital state data with the absolute time. A digital data sending device provides the digital state data with the absolute time on a communication network. A display operating system connected to the communication network executes displaying operations to monitor the operation and condition of the digital protective controllers. The display operating system has a distance calculating device for calculating a distance between a control station and an accident point by using the plurality of digital state data with the absolute time received from the digital protective controllers and a display for displaying the output of the distance calculating device.

Claims

1. An accident point locating system comprising:

a plurality of digital protective controllers that receive state data representing a state of an electric power system, convert the state data into corresponding digital state data and execute an electric power system protecting control, each of said digital protective controllers including;

an absolute time acquiring means for acquiring an absolute time,

an A/D converting means for sampling the state data at a predetermined sampling period at absolute times acquired by the absolute time acquiring means and converting the sampled state data into corresponding digital state data,

a state data processing means for deciding whether any malfunction occurred in equipment to be protected on the basis of the digital state data provided by the A/D converting means and executing a protective operation when it is decided that a malfunction occurred in the equipment,

a state decision means for executing a malfunction decision function other than the malfunction decision function of the state data processing means on the basis of the digital state data provided by the A/D converting means to decide whether or not any malfunction occurred in the equipment to be protected and in the vicinity of the equipment,

a recording means for adding absolute sampling time to the digital state data provided by the A/D converting means and recording the digital state data with the absolute time when the state decision means decides that a malfunction occurred in the equipment to be controlled and protected or in the vicinity of the equipment, and

a digital data sending means for reading the digital state data with the absolute time from the recording means and providing the same on a communication network; and

a display operating system that is connected to the plurality of digital protective controllers by the communication network and executes displaying operations to monitor the operation and condition of the digital protective controllers, said display operating system including;

a digital state data receiving means connected to the communication network to receive a plurality of digital state data with the absolute time through the communication network,

distance calculating means for calculating a distance between a control station and an accident point by using the plurality of digital state data with the absolute time received by the digital data receiving means, and

a display means for displaying the output of the distance calculating means.

2. The accident point locating system according to claim 1 further comprising a recording unit, the recording unit including:

a receiving means connected to the communication network to receive the digital state data with the absolute time provided by the digital protective controllers,

a storage means for storing the received digital state data,

a program module storage means for storing an accident point locating program module specifying accident point locating operations, and

a sending means for sending out the digital state data with the absolute time stored in the storing means and the accident point locating program module stored in the program module storage means;

wherein the display operating system further comprises a requesting means for requesting the recording unit to give the same the digital state data with the absolute time and the accident point locating program module,

the receiving means of the display operating system is capable of receiving the digital state data with the absolute time and the accident point locating program module requested by the requesting means, and

the distance calculating means of the display operating system is capable of executing the accident point locating program module on the basis of the digital state data with the absolute time received by the receiving means of the display operating system.

3. The accident point locating system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the display operating system further includes:

a power transmission line map data storage means for storing power transmission line map data, and

checking means for checking output of the distance calculating means indicating a distance between the control station and an accident point against the power transmission line map data, and

the display means of the display operating system has a function to display the accident point on the power transmission line map data on the basis of the result of checking by the checking means.

4. The accident point locating system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the display operating system further includes a phenomenon discriminating means that decides that a plurality of digital state data with the absolute time received from the plurality of digital protective controllers in a predetermined time period are those on a single phenomenon.