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Split core current transformer

  • US 9,607,749 B2
  • Filed: 01/22/2015
  • Issued: 03/28/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A sensing transformer comprising:

  • (a) a first transformer segment including;

    (i) a first magnetically permeable core comprising a sector having a planar cross-section bounded by a closed curve and having a first end and a second end;

    (ii) a winding including at least one turn substantially encircling said cross-section of said core; and

    (iii) a first segment housing enclosing said winding and a portion of said first core; and

    (b) a second transformer segment separable from said first transformer segment, said second transformer segment including;

    (i) a second magnetically permeable core comprising a different sector having a third end and a fourth end; and

    (ii) a second segment housing enclosing a portion of said second core, said second segment housing separable from said first segment housing to enable separation of said first and said second transformer segments and joinable to said first segment housing to restrain said first and said second cores in a substantially closed arrangement with said first end and said third end being adjacent one another and with said second end and said fourth end being adjacent one another when said second housing is said joined to said first housing;

    (c) wherein said first end is plated with an electrically conductive material thereon having a thickness between 15 and 75 microns, said second end is plated with an electrically conductive material thereon having a thickness between 15 and 75 microns, said third end is plated with an electrically conductive material thereon having a thickness between 15 and 75 microns, and said fourth end is plated with an electrically conductive material thereon having a thickness between 15 and 75 microns.

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