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Circuit breaker panel with wireless communications capability

  • US 9,438,026 B2
  • Filed: 01/30/2014
  • Issued: 09/06/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A circuit breaker system comprising:

  • a bus bar subsystem;

    a plurality of circuit breakers, each circuit breaker including;

    mechanical components and a solenoid for selectively breaking electrical continuity in an electrical path between a power source and corresponding line and neutral bus bars of the bus bar subsystem, the mechanical components adapted to connect to the corresponding line and neutral bus bars of the bus bar subsystem without wires;

    sensor circuitry for monitoring the electrical path and detecting faults; and

    logic circuitry coupled to the sensor circuitry for generating a fault detection signal identifying a type of fault detected by the sensor circuitry;

    a first subsystem including;

    trip control logic responsive to fault detection signals received from each of the plurality of circuit breakers, the trip control logic programmed to selectively activate the solenoid of a selected one of circuit breakers and independently break the continuity of the corresponding electrical path in response to a particular type of fault identified by a fault detection signal received from the selected circuit breaker; and

    a communications interface; and

    a second subsystem including;

    a communications interface for exchanging signals with the communications interface of the first subsystem; and

    wireless communications circuitry for establishing wireless communications with a system external to the circuit breaker system.

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