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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRuxi Wang, William James Premerlani, Antonio Caiafa, Yan Pan
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A circuit breaking system includes a first branch including at least one solid-state snubber; a second branch coupled in parallel to the first branch and including a superconductor and a cryogenic contactor coupled in series; and a controller operatively coupled to the at least one solid-state snubber and the cryogenic contactor and programmed to, when a fault occurs in the load circuit, activate the at least one solid-state snubber for migrating flow of the electrical current from the second branch to the first branch, and, when the fault is cleared in the load circuit, activate the cryogenic contactor for migrating the flow of the electrical current from the first branch to the second branch.
A method for operating a circuit breaker coupled between a power line circuit (PLC) and a load circuit and comprising a first branch comprising at least one solid-state snubber, a second branch coupled in parallel to the first branch and comprising a superconductor, and a cryogenic contactor coupled to the superconductor, the method comprising:
A circuit breaking system comprising:
A circuit breaker coupled between a power line circuit (PLC) and a load circuit, the circuit breaker comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.