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US 11,605,949 B2Granted
Electrification arrangement for supplying power to electrical loads
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsPietro Cairoli, Debrup Das, Darren Tremelling
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Abstract
An electrification arrangement is provided for simplifying changes to the system, such as adding new electrical loads. The arrangement includes a power supply bus that routes available electric power throughout a facility. Electrical loads may be connected to the power supply bus using smart connectors that provide electrical protection and control of respective electrical loads.
Claims18
An electrification arrangement, comprising:
- a power supply bus;
- a plurality of electrical loads connected to the power supply bus, the power supply bus providing a total available electrical power to all of the plurality of electrical loads;
- and
- a plurality of smart connectors, each of the plurality of smart connectors being connected between the power supply bus and a respective one of the plurality of electrical loads;
- wherein each of the plurality of smart connectors comprises active current limitation electrical protection limiting a supply of the total available electrical power from the power supply bus to the respective one of the plurality of electrical loads, and a local controller with a unique identifier, the local controller being in communication with a central controller using the unique identifier and controlling the supply of the total available electrical power to the respective one of the plurality of electrical loads in response to the central controller;
- wherein the active current limitation electrical protection is a circuit breaker or a fuse limiting an electric current supplied to the respective one of the plurality of electrical loads;
- and
- wherein the active current limitation electrical protection provides short circuit fault protection, overload protection, thermal protection, vibration protection, or locked rotor protection.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.