Passive resonance DC circuit breaker
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsMarkus Abplanalp, Rudolf Gati
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AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsMarkus Abplanalp, Rudolf Gati
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A DC circuit breaker including a pair of arcing contact members for holding an arc, an interaction element, adapted for interacting with the arc in dependence of whether the arc is in a first or second state such that the arc voltage drop in the first state is lower than the drop in the second state, a resonance branch coupled in parallel to the contact members thereby forming a resonance circuit adapted for letting a resonance branch current Ir oscillate thereby inducing oscillations of an arc current Ia, wherein the resonance branch includes a coupling element for coupling the resonance branch with the arc, such that the arc is brought to the first state when the current Ir in the resonance branch has a first direction, and that the arc is brought to the second state when the current Ir in the resonance branch has a second direction.
A DC circuit breaker comprising:
A method for interrupting a DC current, the method including:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.