Patents Assigned to Schneider Electric
  • Publication number: 20250233402
    Abstract: An electrical protection device (10) that includes a mechanical switch (12), a static switch (14), an acquisition module (20) including a current intensity sensor (22) configured so as to measure the intensity of the current and to determine a derivative with respect to time (time derivative) of the current intensity; and an electronic control unit (30), configured so as to determine a first value of an estimated peak current intensity, and to command the switching of the mechanical switch (12) to the open configuration when the first value of the estimated peak current intensity is greater than or equal to a peak current intensity threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Rémy Orban, Sébastien Heraud
  • Publication number: 20250233759
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide techniques for securely validating firmware on a device using certificates and providing a mechanism for deprecating select certificates when a traditional certificate authority is unavailable or otherwise cannot be used. When a first firmware package is installed on the device, a first certificate in a first secure memory location is associated with an active status. Responsive to validation and installation of a second firmware package on the device, a second certificate in a second secure memory location on the device is associated with an active status. During a boot-up operation on the device, embodiments determine to use the second certificate to validate the second firmware package by starting at a predefined secure memory location and scanning backwards until a status of active is identified. The second firmware package on the device is then validated using the second certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Pyle
  • Publication number: 20250233408
    Abstract: A reverse wiring self-protection circuit is disclosed, including an auxiliary power module configured to provide tripping electric energy for tripping the solid-state circuit breaker to a tripping coil of the solid-state circuit breaker before an isolating switch of the solid-state circuit breaker is closed; a reverse wiring determination module configured to determine whether DC power connected to the solid-state circuit breaker is reversely wired, and output a first driving enable signal enabling a driving circuit module in response to reverse wiring of the DC power; the driving circuit module is configured to, transmit a driving signal indicating tripping operation to the tripping coil, in response to the first driving enable signal. The reverse wiring self-protection circuit according to the present disclosure can protect the elements included in the solid-state circuit breaker itself and improve the personal safety of the DC system to which the solid-state circuit breaker is connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ying Shi, Benjamin Edwards, Yang Hu, Haijun Zhao, Zhigang Han, Bonuo Zheng
  • Publication number: 20250233585
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a solid state breaker and a power supply system. The breaker includes: a first port and a second port configured to connect a first external system; a third port and a fourth port configured to connect a second external system; a first electronic switch connected between the first port and the third port; a second electronic switch connected between the second port and the fourth port; and a control unit configured to control the first electronic switch and the second electronic switch to be turned off in a case of detecting an electricity leakage occurs in the second external system. The breaker is provided with electronic switches at both poles, so that it can provide effective protection for the human body by quickly turning off the electronic switches provided at both poles, in a case of an electricity leakage of the prosumer to the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiamin Chen, Ying Shi, Simon Tian, Fenglian Zhang, Haijun Zhao, Feng Lu
  • Publication number: 20250233406
    Abstract: A solid-state circuit breaker, including a first switch, a second switch, a first capacitor, and a first diode, wherein, a first terminal of the first switch is connected to a positive electrode of an input terminal, a second terminal of the first switch is connected to a first terminal of the second switch, a second terminal of the second switch is connected to a positive electrode of an output terminal, a first terminal of the first capacitor is connected to the first terminal of the second switch, a second terminal of the first capacitor is connected to a negative electrode of the input terminal, a cathode of the first diode is connected to the second terminal of the second switch, and an anode of the first diode is connected to a negative electrode of the output terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heng Bai, Jianguo Fan, Ying Shi, Haijun Zhao, Feng Lu, Jiamin Chen
  • Publication number: 20250233751
    Abstract: A method is provided for temporarily enabling functionality of a secure device. The method includes storing public keys for respective trusted devices of at least one trusted device, storing device-unique data that is unique for the secure device, generating a unique hashed-based message authentication code (HMAC) key, computing, based on the HMAC key and the device-unique data, a unique HMAC, transmitting the HMAC to a trusted device of the at least one trusted device, receiving a signed HMAC from the trusted device, wherein the signed HMAC is the HMAC as signed by the trusted device using a private key of the trusted device, decrypting the signed HMAC using the public key for the trusted device, comparing the decrypted signed HMAC to the HMAC, and enabling functionality of the secure device based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Jefferies, Gregory HARRISON, Yvain ACHINO
  • Publication number: 20250232930
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrical device, including: a first sub-mechanism, capable of switching between an electrically conductive state and an electrically isolated state; a second sub-mechanism, capable of switching between an electrically conductive state and an electrically isolated state; when one of the first sub-mechanism and the second sub-mechanism is electrically isolated, the other of the first sub-mechanism and the second sub-mechanism is electrically conductive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Simon Tian, Yuanyuan Ge, Zhigang Han, Haijun Zhao, Ying Shi
  • Publication number: 20250232934
    Abstract: A breaking module for a medium or high voltage switchgear. The breaking module includes a vacuum interrupter including a housing forming an enclosure in which a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact are disposed, the first and the second electrical contacts being configured to be moved relatively to each other between an open position and a closed position. The breaking module further includes a support frame; a first bracket fixed to the support frame and including a first radial abutment surface configured for receiving the vacuum interrupter housing; and a second bracket fixed to the first bracket, the second bracket including a second radial abutment surface configured for receiving the vacuum interrupter housing. The breaking module may be integrated in a circuit breaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Renaud Carlen, Bhoopender Singh, Satish Namala, Martin Eigl
  • Patent number: 12362543
    Abstract: A method for configuring electrical devices in an electrical panel includes acquiring machine-readable configuration data including a list of electrical devices to be installed; displaying a visual identifier on an electronic display screen associated with each device; acquiring an image showing the devices in the panel with the visual identifiers displayed by each of the devices; a processor comparing identification information of each device on the list with the identification information from the visual identifiers of the acquired image; and for each device on the list whose identification information corresponds to the information of one of the visual identifiers of the acquired image, sending a setting parameter to be applied to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Gilles De Vos, Alan Freeman
  • Patent number: 12362899
    Abstract: An industrial system for controlling backplane communication, including: a cluster manager including a primary switch linked to a primary control module, at least one Input/Output, I/O, module including a secondary switch linked to a secondary control module, a unidirectional communication line linking the cluster manager to the at least one IO module through passive base plates, wherein the cluster manager includes a transmission port and a reception port on the unidirectional communication line and the at least one Input/Output module includes a reception port on the unidirectional communication line, wherein the primary control module is configured to generate a pulse via the transmission port on the unidirectional communication line, wherein, upon reception of the pulse, the primary control module is configured to create a primary timestamp from a primary clock of the primary switch and the secondary control module is configured to create a secondary timestamp from a secondary clock of the secondary sw
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventor: William Afshari
  • Patent number: 12362545
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a field assembled electrical distribution device assembled from various prepackaged modular kits. The prepackaged modular kits include all of the components required for their assembly. The prepackaged modular kits, when assembled by a certified assembler using a certified method and verification means provided by the modular kit manufacturer and one or more well know third-party certifiers, meets the requirements local, national and international electrical codes and is eligible for the third-party's certification mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Wayne Dozier, Charles Wesley Travis, Jr., Adrian Moreno-Manzo, James Raymond Ramsey, Xavier Lifran
  • Publication number: 20250226744
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a contactor, which includes a coil unit including a coil and a first switch; a first power supply unit including a second switch and a voltage stabilizing diode, wherein the second switch is connected in parallel with the voltage stabilizing diode, and the first power supply unit is connected in series with the coil unit; a current detection unit, which is configured to detect a current flowing through the coil; a voltage detection unit, which is configured to detect a first supply voltage at the output; and the control unit, which is configured to control the switching on and off of the first switch according to the current detection signal, and to control the switching on and off of the second switch according to the voltage detection signal, wherein the first supply voltage is less than an input voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Siyang Feng, Vincent Geffroy, Juan Xie, Hao Zhuang, Songxue Yan, Jungang Xu
  • Patent number: 12355298
    Abstract: According to aspects of the disclosure, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system is presented, the UPS System comprising at least one first input configured to be coupled to a primary power source and to a secondary power source, a second input configured to be coupled to a backup power source, an output configured to be coupled to at least one load, and at least one controller configured to receive a signal indicating that the secondary power source is prepared to provide secondary power to the UPS system, determine, responsive to receiving the signal, whether an energy level of the backup power source is above a threshold energy level, and control, responsive to determining that the energy level of the backup power source is above the threshold energy level, the UPS system to provide output power derived from the backup power source to the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Murali Krishna Kalvakunta, Pradeep Tolakanahalli Nagabhushanrao, Himamshu V Prasad
  • Patent number: 12356592
    Abstract: A hot air containment system includes a service access partition assembly having a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening. The first opening is configured to provide access to an access space. The second opening is configured to provide access to cooling equipment and to receive a blanking panel. The third opening is configured to pass hot air from heat-generating equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rong Long, Joseph H. Bergesch, Lianne M. McMahan
  • Patent number: 12355373
    Abstract: A wireless transmitter for coupling to an actuation device and a method of producing a wireless transmitter are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC ASIA PTE LTD
    Inventors: Mathew Adam Williams, Aurelien Albert Francois Franc, Jordan Xu, Caijin Wang, Benjamin Plessis, Qifei Gao
  • Publication number: 20250219425
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control system for a microgrid and a microgrid. The control system comprises: at least one main switching device arranged in at least one circuit group and coupled to a main bus, respectively, the main switching device comprising a main output port and a main input port; at least one branch switching device arranged in the circuit group and comprising: a branch input port coupled to the main output port of corresponding main switching device to receive a main signal from the corresponding main switching device; and a branch output port coupled to the prosumer or the source device of the circuit group to allow the at least one branch switching device to control an active output state of the prosumer or the source device. In this manner, the control system can easily facilitate maintenance and improve the safety and reliability of the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Henricus David Stokman, Ying Shi, Haijun Zhao, Xu Yuan, Ganlin Li
  • Patent number: 12347637
    Abstract: A visual trip indicator for a circuit breaker is disclosed. The electronic components of a visual trip indicator are enclosed in a module that attaches to the circuit breaker handle or within pocket defined in the circuit breaker housing. The visual trip indicator includes a light source operated by a state machine which clearly indicates which circuit breaker, of a group of circuit breakers or in a poorly illuminated enclosure, is tripped. The visual trip indicator also indicating, by a coded light signal, the approximate remaining life of an independent power supply powering the visual trip indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin W. Edwards, Ezequiel Salas Zamarripa, Tannan Whidden Winter, Jodi Marie Palmer, Gerardo Torres Guzman
  • Publication number: 20250208609
    Abstract: An automation system including a first controller, a second controller, at least an automation device, and a fieldbus. The automation system is configured to determine motion data of a plurality of axes associated with the at least an automation device. During a given cycle of the fieldbus: the first controller is configured to determine motion data of a first axis of the plurality of axes; to transmit the motion data of the first axis to the second controller; and to transmit a trigger event enabling the second controller to start determining motion data of a second axis of the plurality of axes; and upon receiving the trigger event, the second controller is configured to determine the motion data of the second axis based on the motion data of the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Antoine Brück, Raul Schmidlin, Ricardo Herrklotz
  • Publication number: 20250208191
    Abstract: A method, implemented by a computer, for evaluating an electronic component on an electronic board. The method includes: measuring an evolution over time of a physical value of the component with a test machine, to obtain a first time series; defining a second time series corresponding to an evolution over time of the physical value of the component without defects; and calculating an error expressing the differences between both time series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Didier Ferry, Guillaume Lenotre
  • Patent number: D1081581
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Schneider Electric (Australia) PTY LTD
    Inventors: Zhen Ma, Fuhua Shan, Dahai Zhang, Pei Shang, Qilian Du