Device for protection from thunder
AssigneeNippon Kouatsu Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorRyosaku Nakata
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Abstract
This invention aims at preventing a thunderbolt attack detecting circuit from determining that no thunderbolt is approaching because the thunderbolt attack detecting circuit turns to its initial condition due to power interruption caused by an approaching thunderbolt and is changed over into a normal condition in the thunderbolt approaching status maintained. This thunderbolt disaster protecting apparatus includes a thunderbolt attack detecting circuit for determining whether or not any thunderbolt is approaching by detecting a thunderbolt signal and a switching mechanism for changing over to the normal condition in which a protection object device is connected to an electrical path or to thunderbolt resisting condition in which the protection object device is separated from the electric path.
Claims3
A thunderbolt disaster protecting apparatus comprising:
- a thunderbolt resisting transformer;
- a thunderbolt attack detecting circuit for determining whether or not any thunderbolt is approaching by detecting a thunderbolt signal;
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- a switching mechanism for changing over to the normal condition in which a protection object device is connected to an electric path or to the thunderbolt resisting condition in which said protection object device is connected to the electric path through said thunderbolt resisting transformer, wherein
- said thunderbolt attack detecting circuit and said switching mechanism obtain a control power supply from said electric path and said thunderbolt attack detecting circuit changes over said switching mechanism to said normal condition at the time of normal condition and when any thunderbolt is approaching, changes over said switching mechanism to said thunderbolt resisting condition, and
- wherein when said switching mechanism is in said normal condition, said thunderbolt resisting transformer is disconnected from said electric path to eliminate power consumption by said thunderbolt resisting transformer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.