Door Latch Interruption Upon Detection of Current Leakage

• Main Authors: RANASINGHE SAJEEV LATHIKA, REDER ANDREW LEROY, KAISER TIMOTHY DAVID
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.07.2015
• Subjects: CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS; GENERATION

Appliances that include a ground fault door latch trip circuit that leverages a door latch circuit of the appliance to open one or more component relays upon detection of a current leakage event are provided. In particular, the ground fault door latch trip circuit can provide one or more shunt paths...