Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network of interconnected circuit protection devices
- Patent Title (中): 互联电路保护装置网络
-
Application No.: US13689669Application Date: 2012-11-29
-
Publication No.: US09218237B1Publication Date: 2015-12-22
- Inventor: Max Jesse Wishman
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NV Reno
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NV Reno
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/07

Abstract:
A network of interconnected circuit protection devices in a datacenter that can communicate over a network. Each circuit protection device can have a management component such that each device could know the state of every other device or a centralized management component could know the state of all devices. The states of the protection devices could include, fault or non-fault (e.g., high-current, current-imbalance and high temperature). Using this information, the management component(s) can prevent a single-device failure from triggering circuit-protection devices in other sections of the data center to open. The breaker logic can operate such that if a single device short-circuited and all devices upstream in the power delivery system sensed the short-circuit, then the lowest-level device would open and if the fault was still detected upstream, then the next level device would open.
Information query