Static protective relay

Claim 2

A static protective relay comprising: phase current detecting means including plural current transformers inserted in respective poly-phase AC power lines for producing respective voltages proportional to phase currents of respective of said AC power lines; half-wave rectifying means for rectifying the voltages obtained from each said current transformer to produce respective rectified voltages having a predetermined relative phase relationship; and negative phase sequence detecting means coupled to said rectifying means for processing the rectified voltages, including a wave shaping circuit including means for generating trigger outputs in response to given portions of said voltages delivered from respective of said current transformers, means for generating rectangular wave outputs having predetermined widths in response to said trigger outputs, and first and second logic gates to which said rectified voltages and rectangular wave outputs are applied, and means for detecting that one of the rectified voltages is at a predetermined voltage level when a selected other of said rectified voltages transits from a first voltage level to a second voltage level.

Claim 3

A static protective relay according to claim 1, wherein said negative phase sequence detecting means comprises: a data flip-flop having a clock terminal and a data terminal to which said first and second rectangular signals are applied, said flip-flop producing an output voltage proportional to the level of said second rectangular wave signal at the time that said first rectangular wave signal transits from a low to a high level.

Claim 4

A static protective relay according to claims 1 or 2, further comprising: overload detecting means coupled to said rectifying means for detecting if any of said poly-phase AC lines are in an overload condition, wherein said overload detecting means is characterized by a time delay inversely proportional to the rectified voltages produced by said half-wave rectifying means; phase failure detecting means which receives and smoothes the rectified voltages produced by said half-wave rectifying means for producing an output signal when at least one of said smooth voltages is not higher then a predetermined value; and, operating point setting means which receives and smoothes the rectified voltages produced by said half-wave rectifying means, wherein when one of said smoothed voltages is below a predetermined value, none of the output signals produced by said overloaded detecting means, said phase failure detecting means, and said negative phase sequence detecting means can be adapted for application to a relay output circuit, while one said smoothed voltages are above said predetermined value, the output signal from said overloaded detecting means, said phase-failure detecting means, and negative phase sequence detecting means can be adapted for application to a relay output circuit.