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AssigneeEaton Corporation
InventorsMark Allan Juds, Kurt Von Eckroth, Charles Joseph Tennies, James Edward Hansen, Mark George Solverson, Jerome Kenneth Hastings, Scott Reid
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An electrical current sensing apparatus includes a magnetic flux sensor which may be disposed adjacent to or within an opening in a conductor. The magnetic flux sensor may be disposed adjacent to a corner of the opening around which magnetic flux resulting from a current conducted through the conductor tends to concentrate. The magnetic flux sensor includes a Hall effect device having a flux sensitive surface. In one embodiment, the conductor has a tubular cylindrical side wall with an opening in which the magnetic flux sensor is disposed. In another embodiment, the conductor has a rectangular configuration with an opening in which the magnetic flux sensor is disposed. In another embodiment, the magnetic flux sensor is mounted on the surface of the conductor adjacent to the opening.
An electrical current sensing apparatus comprising a hollow conductor having a side wall with inner and outer surfaces, said inner surfaces of said side wall at least partially defines a space within said hollow conductor and said outer surface encloses said inner surface, said side wall defines an opening which extends through said side wall between the space within said hollow conductor and space outside said hollow conductor, said side wall being formed of electrical current conducting material which extends around the opening in said side wall, and a magnetic flux sensor at least partially disposed in the opening in said side wall with the electrical current conducting material extending around said magnetic flux sensor.
An electrical current sensing apparatus comprising a tubular conductor having a side wall with cylindrical inner and outer surfaces, said side wall defines a polygonal opening which extends through said side wall between space within said tubular conductor and space outside said tubular conductor at a location between opposite ends of said tubular conductor, and a magnetic flux sensor disposed in one corner portion of a plurality of corner portions of said polygonal opening, said magnetic flux sensor being spaced from corner portions of said polygonal opening other than said one corner portion, said magnetic flux sensor includes a flux sensitive surface which is disposed midway between said cylindrical inner and outer side surfaces of said tubular conductor.
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