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AssigneeEaton Corporation
InventorVICTOR DOUALLA EPEE
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A circuit interrupter including a first electrical conductor, a second electrical conductor, separable contacts, an operating mechanism configured to open and close said separable contacts, a trip circuit configured to trip open said separable contacts, a ground fault detection circuit configured to sense a difference between a current through the first electrical conductor and a current through the second electrical conductor and to output an output signal based on said sensed difference, a power supply, a confirmation circuit structured to input a confirmation signal to the power supply, and a processor configured to receive said direct current power and said output signal. The processor is configured to determine whether a characteristic of said confirmation signal is present in said output signal and to control the trip circuit based on said determination.
A circuit interrupter comprising:
A method of controlling a circuit interrupter comprising separable contacts, a trip circuit configured to control tripping of said separable contacts, a power supply configured to convert alternating current power received by the circuit interrupter to a direct current power, a ground fault detection circuit configured to sense a ground fault current in the circuit interrupter and to output an output signal based on said sensed ground fault current, and a confirmation circuit structured to input a confirmation signal to the power supply, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more programs, including instructions, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method of controlling a circuit interrupter comprising separable contacts, a trip circuit configured to control tripping of said separable contacts, a power supply configured to convert alternating current power received by the circuit interrupter to a direct current power, a ground fault detection circuit configured to sense a ground fault current in the circuit interrupter and to output an output signal based on said sensed ground fault current, and a confirmation circuit structured to input a confirmation signal to the power supply, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.