Abstract: A dual power supply transfer switch (SSATS) for switching between a first power supply (S1) and a second power supply (S2) to supply power to a load is provided, includes: a solid-state switch (SS); a mechanical switch (CTR); and a compensation power module (AUX). In the case that the S1 fails in supplying power to the load, the AUX uses the S2 to supply power to the load, and the output current of the S1 is reduced. After satisfying the turn off condition for the SS, the SS turns off the S1, the CTR turns off the S1 and turns on the S2. After the S2 is adjusted to synchronize with the phase of the output current of the S1, the SS turns on the S2 and the AUX stops outputting current. The SSATS provides advantages such as fast transfer, zero interruption, and short voltage sag time.

Abstract: A protection device against overvoltages includes a housing and an electrical module arranged in an internal volume of the housing. The electrical module includes a phase terminal, adjacent to one end of the housing, a location, adjacent to an opposite end of the housing, and a fuse and a varistor, connected in series to the phase terminal and distributed along a length axis so that the fuse is arranged between the phase terminal and the varistor and the varistor is arranged between the fuse and the location. The electrical module further includes a gas spark gap and a ground terminal, which are connected in series with the varistor and arranged in the location.

Abstract: A contactor and a control method thereof are disclosed, the contactor including: an electromagnetic component; a static contact; a movable component including a connected movable contact, a first elastic part configured to generate an elastic force supporting the movable component and a driving part configured to produce an electromagnetic driving force through a magnetic field generated by the electromagnetic component; a sensor; and a controller configured to: in response to the sensor detecting that the driving part is displaced based on the electric repulsion force generated by the current flowing through the movable contact and the static contact, control the electromagnetic component to adjust the generated magnetic field to reduce the electromagnetic driving force produced by the driving part based on the generated magnetic field in the opposite direction to the electric repulsion force, so that the movable contact is not closed with the static contact again.

Abstract: A predictive control method and system are provided for controlling a device or system. The control method and system involves receiving a setpoint signal as input; and performing closed loop control of the device or system by outputting a control signal according to the setpoint signal and a response model of the device or system using a predictive control algorithm. The predictive control algorithm is configured to implement control according to a polynomial representation for regulation, sensitivity and tracking and further implement non-linearity or time delay compensation using the response model. The closed loop control is tunable using an adjustable single parameter for accelerating or decelerating the closed loop control relative to an open loop control scenario.

Abstract: An actuating device for a switching apparatus of a switch panel of electrical energy technology, in particular of medium-voltage technology, comprises an operable drive unit, in particular a manually operable drive unit, a pivot unit that can be mechanically coupled to the switching apparatus, and a pulling cable via which the pivot unit is mechanically connected to the drive unit.

Abstract: A method for track calibration of a linear motor system comprises controlling linear motors to move a transport element along a track in a calibration run, determining position jumps at segment boundaries of each of the linear motors based on position feedback signals from position sensors of the respective linear motor and its adjacent linear motors in the calibration run, generating an offset value and/or a gain value for each of the linear motors from the determined position jumps, storing the offset value and/or the gain value for each linear motor in the storage unit.

Abstract: The application relates to a method for controlling a microgrid (10) comprising the steps of: maintaining a switching device (60) connecting two busbars (30, 40) of the microgrid (10) and a circuit breaker (20) connecting the microgrid (10) to a utility grid (100) closed, the microgrid (10) being operated in a grid connected mode; measuring (202) a voltage present in the microgrid (10); determining (205) if the measured voltage corresponds to a loss of voltage or a fault in the microgrid (10); and if a the loss of voltage or fault is detected in the microgrid (10), opening (210) the switching device (60), the critical loads being supplied by the battery energy storage system (50) and the circuit breaker (20) remaining closed during (215) at least a fault ride through period.

Abstract: The application relates to a method for protecting a microgrid from a voltage drop or sag occurring in a main grid connected to said microgrid, the method comprising the following steps: a. supplying (105) power to the microgrid through the main grid; b. ascertaining that the voltage drop or sag is occurring in the main grid by executing the following steps: i. measuring (110) an instantaneous output voltage; ii. comparing (130) the measured instantaneous output voltage with a reference instantaneous output voltage; iii. Incrementing (140) a counter when the measured instantaneous output voltage differs from the reference instantaneous output voltage by more than a voltage threshold; and iv. ascertaining (150) that the voltage drop or sag is occurring in the main grid when the counter holds a value that exceeds a counter threshold; and c. disconnecting the microgrid from the main grid when the voltage drop or sag occurring in the main grid has been ascertained.

Abstract: A modular monitoring-and-control drawer (138) for an electrical connection enclosure is connected to an electricity source and to an electrical load. The drawer comprises functional elements dimensioned to be adapted to the electrical power delivered to the electrical load. The drawer comprises a base (328), on which the functional elements are attached, the height of the base, measured perpendicular to the base, being constant. The drawer comprises a frontal part (300) and a cover (330). The heights of the frontal part and of the cover, measured perpendicular to the base, are adapted to the dimensions of the functional elements. The monitoring-and-control drawer is configured to operate in a first orientation, with its base located at the bottom of the drawer and its cover located at the top, and in a second orientation, with its base located at the top and its cover located at the bottom.

Abstract: A system architecture of a fast transfer switch is provided, which includes a main power loop configured to be connected to at least two power supplies, transfer between the at least two power supplies, and output an AC signal; a first parallel bypass module configured to output an AC signal, the first parallel bypass module including an independent power supply; the main controller is configured to, in response to detecting the abnormality of the first power supply of the at least two power supplies, adjust the AC signal output by the first parallel bypass module during the transfer of the main power loop between the at least two power supplies, so as to transfer from the first power supply outputting the AC signal via the main power loop to the second power supply of the at least two power supplies outputting the AC signal via the main power loop.

Abstract: There is provided a solid-state switch device connected between a single-phase power supply source and a load, including: a phase bridge arm circuit, including a first and a second power semiconductor switches, which each includes a first, a second and a control ends and each includes a body diode, wherein the second ends of the first and the second power semiconductor switches are connected in series in phase of a single-phase power supply source; a phase voltage sampling circuit, configured to acquire sampled values of phase voltage of the phase bridge arm circuit; and a control circuit, configured to determine direction of the phase voltage according to the sampled values, turn on one of the power semiconductor switches whose body diode direction is the same as the direction of the phase voltage, and turn on the other within a half cycle after the immediate zero-crossing of the phase voltage.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a connection sleeve including a main body at least partially formed in a column shape; a conductive rod extending through the main body in an axial direction; a first electrical interface located at one end of the conductive rod; a second electrical interface located at other end of the conductive rod; a first shield piece and a second shield piece which are independent of each other, are formed in ring shapes and are respectively arranged around a part of the conductive rod; a first output interface connected to the first shield piece and configured to output a first voltage signal; and a second output interface connected to the second shield piece and configured to output a second voltage signal. The connection sleeve according to the present disclosure can output two groups of independent different voltage signals through two independent shield pieces.

Abstract: A method for setting a security level of wireless sensors communicating with a switch. The method includes in a security device linked to the switch: collecting data frames sent from the wireless sensors to the switch and creating a dataset containing the collected data frames; identifying patterns associated with the wireless sensors from the collected data frames; introducing simulated traffic anomalies in the dataset with respect to the traffic patterns; randomizing the dataset and dividing the randomized dataset into a training dataset and a testing dataset; training, using the training dataset, a machine learning model configured for detecting traffic anomalies, and validating the machine learning model; detecting a traffic anomaly for a wireless sensor by analyzing current data frames and using the validated machine learning model; triggering a security alert based on the detected traffic anomaly; and adapting a security level for the wireless sensor based on the security alert.

Abstract: A voltage presence determination system intended to be connected to a voltage measurement sensor for at least one phase of a high-voltage electrical network. The system comprises, for the at least one phase: a visual indicator of the presence of a voltage measured by the voltage measurement sensor, referred to as the measured voltage, a first output terminal configured to receive a first output signal, a second output terminal configured to receive a second output signal, and a plurality of linear components. The system is configured so that the first and second output terminals are functionally isolated from one another and functionally isolated from the visual indicator only by the plurality of linear components.

Abstract: A push-button (100) includes a plunger sub-assembly (10) that comprises a translation-to-rotation converting part (5), a latch part (6) and a latch spring element (56). The latch spring element connects the latch part to the translation-to-rotation converting part so that rotation of the translation-to-rotation converting part caused by a user pressing the push-button drives the latch part into a position where said latch part abuts a relief portion in the internal surface of a casing (30) of the push-button. Such arrangement of the plunger sub-assembly avoids that numerous repeated locking operations damage to the latch part and/or relief portion. Lifetime of the push-button is thus increased.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a movable contact driving device and a switching apparatus. The movable contact driving device comprises: a contact carrier (10), an electromagnetic actuator (20) and a driving member (30).

Abstract: An apparatus linked to a generic database storing generic data relating to generic objects and to a custom database storing custom data relating to custom objects, wherein the generic data are accessible from a client application and the custom data are not accessible from the client application The apparatus, includes: a collecting module configured to access a generic node comprising a generic attribute and an associated generic value included in the generic data relating to a generic object stored in the generic database and to access a custom node comprising a custom attribute and an associated custom value included in the custom data relating to a custom object stored in the custom database; a binding module configured to generate a triplet comprising a generic reference of the generic object and a custom reference of the custom object and a relationship between the generic object and the custom object, when a relationship is determined between the generic object and the custom object, the binding module

Abstract: A solid-state motor starter which includes three electronic switching modules is disclosed. The solid-state motor starter includes: an energy absorbing circuit, which includes a transient diode array including at least one transient diode branch, each branch includes at least one transient diode connected in series in the same direction, and the branches are connected in parallel in the same direction, and the transient diode array has a cathode and an anode connection end; a first and a second three-phase bridge rectifier circuit, which are composed of rectifier diodes. The input or output of each electronic switching module is connected to the midpoint of one of the bridge arms of the first or second three-phase bridge rectifier circuit. The positive poles and the negative poles of the first and second three-phase bridge rectifier circuit are connected to the cathode and anode connection end of the transient diode array.

Abstract: A non-electrical device (40) includes first and second half-housings which are produced in a plastic material, are joined fixedly to one another, define an axis along which a passage for an electrical conductor passes through the first and second half-housings, and delimit between them an internal volume, which is separated from the passage and which surrounds the passage all around the axis. The first half-housing incorporates, by moulding, mechanical reinforcing elements which extend substantially parallel to the axis in the internal volume until they are in contact with the second half-housing.

Abstract: A method for monitoring an electrotechnical device, the electrotechnical device including three phases respectively connected to three phases of an electrical network and the method making it possible to determine an alert on the basis of a comparison between specific parameters associated with each of the phases and obtained from temperature and current measurements on each of the phases.