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US 2025/0218702 A1Published application
Improved data interface for a circuit breaker and system with such a ciruit breaker
AssigneeEaton Intelligent Power Limited
InventorTomas DRÁBEK
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Abstract
Some embodiments relate to a circuit breaker, which includes a housing, a switching contact, a trigger unit acting on the switching contact, a circuit breaker microcontroller and a circuit breaker memory and an optical circuit breaker data interface, which is connected to a data input and/or output of the circuit breaker microcontroller and/or to a data input and/or output of the circuit breaker memory. Moreover, a system with such a circuit breaker is disclosed, which additionally includes an interface unit and/or a computer being connected to the circuit breaker.
Claims15
A Circuit breaker, comprising:
- a circuit breaker housing;
- a switching contact within the circuit breaker housing;
- metallic main power terminals, which are conductively connected to the switching contact and which protrude through the circuit breaker housing;
- a trigger unit acting on the switching contact;
- a circuit breaker microcontroller and a circuit breaker memory within the circuit breaker housing;
- and
- a circuit breaker data interface, which is connected to a data input and output of the circuit breaker microcontroller, and/or to a data input and output of the circuit breaker memory,
- wherein
- the circuit breaker data interface is an optical interface;
- and characterized by
- a circuit breaker power interface (PI1), which is coupled to the power pins of the circuit breaker microcontroller (4) and/or the circuit breaker memory (5), and wherein the circuit breaker power interface (PI1) is a contactless interface.
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