Patent ID: 9735564
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H02H

Claim:
1. A system to protect electrical equipment, comprising: a backplane comprising conductive layers interleaved with dielectric layers, electrically communicative inputs and outputs and power distribution elements supportively disposed within multiple conductive layers by which each input is electrically communicative with at least one or more outputs; input wiring by which power sources respectively connect with corresponding inputs; input detectors respectively disposed on the input wiring to detect an amount of power provided from each of the power sources; output wiring by which each of the outputs respectively connects with a corresponding load; output detectors respectively disposed on the output wiring to detect an amount of power provided from each of the outputs; and a processor configured to determine that a relationship between the detected amounts of power is indicative of a fault of the power distribution elements and to take an action relative to at least one of the power sources to mitigate the fault based on the determined relationship.