US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Industries on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus for generating a self-check leakage current" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,540, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Apparatus for generating a self-check leakage current" was invented by Feng Lu (Shanghai), Xiaohang Chen (Shanghai), Han Wang (Shanghai), Jie Feng (Shanghai), Yangfeng Song (Shanghai), Jianwei Tian (Shanghai) and Wanlong Bai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a self-check leakage current is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a mechanical switch; a phase line solid-state switch arranged on a phase line and located upstream of the mechanical switch; a current transformer arranged upstream of the phase ...