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US 12,244,122 B2Granted
Arc mitigation apparatus and systems for panelboard applications
AssigneeEaton Intelligent Power Limited
InventorsXin Zhou, Joe W. Kirstein, William Michael Crooks
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a housing (e.g., a housing having a form factor of a molded case circuit breaker) and at least two phase terminals supported by the housing and configured to be connected to respective ones of at least two phase buses in an electrical panelboard. The apparatus further includes at least one fault generation device supported by the housing and including an arc containment chamber and first and second spaced-apart electrodes in the arc containment chamber and electrically coupled to respective ones of the at least two phase terminals.
Claims8
An apparatus comprising:
- a housing having a molded circuit breaker housing form factor;
- first, second and third bus bars in the housing and having respective terminals for connection to first, second and third phase conductors;
- a first fault generation device in the housing and connected between the first and second bus bars;
- and
- a second fault generation device in the housing and connected between the second and third bus bars,
- wherein at least one of the first and second fault generation devices comprises:
- an arc containment chamber;
- first and second electrodes within the arc containment chamber;
- and
- a trigger conductor conforming to and affixed to a sidewall of the first electrode and extending onto an end of the first electrode that adjoins the sidewall and faces an end of the second electrode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.