US 11,901,722 B2
Systems and methods for verifying and de-energizing circuit protection devices
Steven Thomas McCasland, Highlands Ranch, CO (US); and Ryan Charles Minnig, Englewood, CO (US)
Assigned to TASCO, INC., Englewood, CO (US)
Filed by TASCO, INC., Englewood, CO (US)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/014,278.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/896,425, filed on Sep. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0075207 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H02H 3/04 (2006.01); H02H 1/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/327 (2006.01); G01R 31/54 (2020.01); H02H 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC H02H 3/04 (2013.01) [G01R 31/3277 (2013.01); G01R 31/54 (2020.01); H02H 1/0007 (2013.01); H02H 5/047 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
18. An apparatus for clearing a circuit breaker, the apparatus comprising:
a sensor configured to sense data associated with an electrical branch circuit;
a load;
a semiconductor device configured to electrically connect the load to an energized wire of the electrical branch circuit; and
an electronic controller configured to:
receive the sensed data;
identify, from the sensed data, that a voltage value is within a first tolerance range;
identify, from the sensed data and at least partly responsive to identifying that the voltage value is within the first tolerance range, that a temperature value is within a second tolerance range;
electrically connect, at least partly responsive to identifying that the temperature value is within the second tolerance range, the load to the energized wire to clear the circuit breaker;
evaluate additional data associated with the electrical branch circuit; and
identify that the circuit breaker has cleared based on an evaluation of the additional data.