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US 2026/0095772 A1Published application
Communication enabled circuit breakers
AssigneeLeviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorsScott Freeman, Abhishek Golwala, Rejaul Monir, Michael Ostrovsky, Alfred J. Lombardi, Ozgur Keser, Adam Kevelos, Paul Soccoli, Justin Berghoff
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Abstract
Wireless communication enabled circuit breakers are described. Methods associated with such wireless communication enabled circuit breakers are also described. The wireless communication enabled circuit breakers may controlled by a remote entity. The remote entity may wirelessly case the wireless communication enabled circuit breakers to trip.
Claims20
A wirelessly communicating circuit breaker comprising:
- a line side phase terminal;
- a load side phase terminal;
- a neutral terminal;
- a memory comprising communication instructions, fault interrupter instructions, and power metering instructions;
- an interrupter coupled to the memory, the interrupter to interrupt an electrical communication between the line side phase terminal and the load side phase terminal based at least in part on the fault interrupter instructions;
- an electrical sensor coupled to the line side phase terminal, the load side phase terminal, or the neutral terminal;
- a wireless radio;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory and the wireless radio, wherein in response to executing the power metering instructions, the processor:
- receives signals from the electrical sensor;
- generates data related to one or more electrical parameters of the wirelessly communicating circuit breaker based on the received signals;
- and
- send the data to a remote entity via the wireless radio.
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A system comprising:
- at least one communication enabled circuit breaker, each of the at least one communication enabled circuit breakers comprising:
- a line side phase terminal;
- a load side phase terminal;
- a neutral terminal;
- a first memory comprising fault interrupter instructions and power metering instructions;
- a fault interrupter coupled to the first memory, the fault interrupter to interrupt an electrical communication between the line side phase terminal and the load side phase terminal based at least in part on the fault interrupter instructions;
- an electrical sensor coupled to at least one of the line side phase terminal or the load side phase terminal;
- a first wireless radio;
- and
- a first processor coupled to the first memory and the first wireless radio;
- and
- a circuit breaker controller comprising:
- a second wireless radio;
- a second memory comprising controller instructions;
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- a second processor electrically coupled to the second wireless radio and the second memory;
- wherein the first processor, in response to executing the power metering instructions to receive signals from the electrical sensor:
- generates data related to one or more electrical parameters of the at least one communication enabled circuit breaker based on the received signals, and
- sends the data to the circuit breaker controller via the first wireless radio;
- and wherein the second processor, the data comprising current, voltage, root mean square (RMS) current, RMS voltage, power, reactive power, active power, reactive energy, active energy, power quality, energy consumption, energy feedback to power grid, power factor, active power factor, reactive power factor, power loss, voltage sags, temperature, time, date, or a combination thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.