US 20090222142A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2009/0222142 A1 Kao et al. (43) Pub. Date: Sep. 3, 2009 (54)
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Patent Application Publication Sep. 3, 2009 Sheet 10 0f 10 US 2009/0222142 A1 serial arcing temperature normal (no arcing) time normal (no arcing) cur
US 2009/0222142 A1 ELECTRICAL MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM [0001] This application claims priority from US. provi sional patent application Ser. No.
US 2009/0222142 A1 advantages of the invention are set forth in or are apparent from the following description and drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE
US 2009/0222142 A1 other cases, processor 10 responds to instructions entered locally by an input device (not shown), or received from a remote contro
US 2009/0222142 A1 [0069] Continuous arcing signals represent continuous arc ing due to, e.g., intermittent contact or an aging connection, and displa
US 2009/0222142 A1 set of data pair) needed for FDD. Such redundancy provides additional bene?ts in the process of FDD. [0088] Learning Will noW be di
US 2009/0222142 A1 [0108] During normal operation, movable wire 372 is con nected between wire 377 and wire 373, so that power ?ows through receptacle
US 2009/0222142 A1 [0128] At step 615, Which occurs periodically such as every 30 seconds, microprocessor 570 analyzes the stored values to produce an
US 2009/0222142 A1 [0152] FIG. 17 shows exemplary Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectra of the current vs. frequency curves for normal operation and se
Patent Application Publication sensor 5 Sep. 3, 2009 Sheet 1 0f 10 sensor6 controller 20 processor 10 25 display 30 printer 31 comm 41 comm 40 tel net
US 2009/0222142 A1 [0180] At step 655B, corresponding to another fault such as appliance malfunction, microprocessor 570 determines What action, if an
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Patent Application Publication Sep. 3, 2009 Sheet 3 0f 10 US 2009/0222142 A1 current Fig. 5 even? event2 time <—> 1 microsec voltage Fig. 6 H H
Patent Application Publication Sep. 3, 2009 Sheet 4 0f 10 US 2009/0222142 A1 temperature @ red region temp ___ __________________________ __ | _ thres
Patent Application Publication Sep. 3, 2009 Sheet 5 0f 10 US 2009/0222142 A1 Fig. 10 r_—\ 201 21 1 212 231 232 ;__/ 255 l—__ 250 _____I /—'—&apos
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Patent Application Publication Sep. 3, 2009 Sheet 8 0f 10 US 2009/0222142 A1 5.0.Q 510 LINE 1 current sensor LOAD 511 —> 550 temperature light sens
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