Cabling of an aircraft circuit breaker panel
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorChristian Rabayrol
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Abstract
A distribution panel aboard an aircraft includes sites intended for the installation of functional electrical circuit breakers of which at least one of the sites is not occupied by a functional circuit breaker. The functional circuit breakers are wired up to a monitoring system via monitoring cabling so as to monitor a state of the circuit breakers. The at least one site not occupied by a functional circuit breaker is occupied by a nonfunctional circuit breaker, termed a false circuit breaker. The false circuit breaker is able to deliver a state signal and is wired up to the monitoring system by the monitoring cabling in a manner identical to that of a functional circuit breaker.
Claims8
Electrical distribution panel of an aircraft, comprising:
- a plurality of sites arranged in a matrix by row and column, with each site configured to receive a circuit breaker;
- a plurality of functional circuit breakers for protecting an electrical device;
- at least one false circuit breaker for delivering a constant state signal, and not associated with an electrical device, wherein the at least one false circuit breaker is at a site located in a row of the plurality of sites in which one site of the row contains a first functional circuit breaker and in a column of the plurality of sites in which one site of the column contains a second functional circuit breaker;
- power supply cabling for connecting to a power supply, wherein the power supply cabling is wired to each of the plurality of functional circuit breakers and not to the at least one false circuit breaker;
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- first and second monitoring cabling for connecting to a monitoring system, wherein the first monitoring cabling links together, in series, terminals of the at least one false circuit breaker and the first functional circuit breaker, and the second monitoring cabling links together, in series, terminals of the at least one false circuit breaker and the second functional circuit breaker,
- wherein the false circuit breaker comprises a selector for determining the state signal delivered by the false circuit breaker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.