A SEMINAR REPORT ON

SELF RESETTING ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT

BREAKER
Submitted to
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

MAHAVEER INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

(Approved by AICTE)
And affiliated to

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

HYDERABAD, (A.P).
In partial fulfilment of the Requirement for the award of Degree of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
IN ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Submitted By

R.RAMYA SAHITI

GUIDE

Mr. Sridhar Chitta

Assoc. Professor

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CO-ORDINATOR
Mr. Kiran Chand
Asst. Professor

HEAD OF DEPT.

Dr. B. Visvesvara Rao

Professor

MAHAVEER INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Vyasapuri, Bandlaguda, Post: Keshavgiri, Hyderabad 500 005
2012 - 2013

MAHAVEER INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

(Affiliated to JNTU Hyderabad, Approved by AICTE)
Vyasapuri, Bandlaguda, Post: Keshavagiri
Hyderabad -500 005

CERTIFICATE
This is to Certify that the Seminar report entitled SELF RESETTING
ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BREAKER which is being submitted by

R.RAMYA SAHITI

09E31A0484

In partial fulfilment for the award of Degree of Bachelor of Technology in

Electronics and Communication Engineering to the Mahaveer Institute of Science and
Technology, affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and is a Bonafide
record of work carried out by them under our Supervision during the academic year 20122013.

Guide

Co-ordinator

Head of the Department

Mr. Sridhar Chitta

Mr. Kiran Chand

Dr. B. Visvesvara Rao

Assoc. Professor

Asst. Professor

Professor

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We take an opportunity to express our indebt gratitude to the persons who contributed
for our work, for being our inspiration and guide which led to the successful completion of
the Main Project.
We express our sincere thanks to guide Mr. Sridhar Chitta, Assistant Professor, Dept.
of ECE, for his valuable suggestion and motivation in successful completion of the Main
Project.
We would like to express out profound gratitude to our Head of the department
Dr. B. Visvesvara Rao, Dept. of ECE, for his encouragement inspiration and close
monitoring and guidance he gave us during the Preparation of the Project.

By
R.RAMYA SAHITI

09E31A0484

Table of Contents
List of figures
Abstract.........................................................................................................................1
1. Introduction...2
2. Circuit Breakers.....5
2.1 Fuse...5
2.2 Electromechanical circuit breaker ............7
2.3 Electronic circuit breaker......8

3. Design of Electronic Circuit Breaker.......9

3.1 Current Sense Circuit.........9
P-Channel Power MOSFET..................................................................10
Sense Resistance...................................................................................14
3.2 Schmitt inverter.............................................................................................14
3.3 Inrush current suppressor..............................................................................17
3.4 N-channel MOSFET...................................................................................18
3.5 Load..............................................................................................................20
4. Operation of Electronic Circuit Breaker..................................................................21
5. Conclusion27

Appendix A
P channel Enhancement Mode Power MOS FET ...33
Appendix B
N Channel MOS FET ................................................................................................. 36
References....39

List of figures
1. Electrical Fuse ...2
2. Electrical Circuit Breaker.......3
3. Short circuited Li-ion cell in computer...........4
4. Electrical fuse.........5
5. Operation of a Fuse....6
6. Operation of Electromechanical Circuit Breaker...7
7. Block diagram of the Electronic Circuit Breaker......9
8. Current sense circuit......10
9. P-Channel Power MOSFET......11
10. Output characteristics of a P-Channel MOSFET......11
11. Cross-section of the Enhancement Mode Power MOSFET..12
12. Cross section of Power MOSFET.....13
13. Transistor bolted to a heat sink.15
14. Equivalent circuit for a semiconductor device with a Heat sink...17
15. Heat sink used in power MOSFET.18
16. Circuit symbol of an Inverting Schmitt trigger.....19
17. Inverting Schmitt trigger...20
18. Hysteresis in a Schmitt trigger......21
19. Waveforms showing Schmitt trigger output for a sinusoidal input..22
20. Diode-resistor-capacitor combination to subside Inrush Current.....23
21. N-Channel MOSFET....23
22. Circuit symbol of an N-Channel MOSFET....24

23. Output characteristics of an N-channel MOSFET......25

24. Current limiting circuit..26
25. PNP Transistor with Sense Resistance.27
26. Current sense circuit with Schmitt inverter..28
27. Inrush current suppressor..29
28. Electronic Circuit Breaker....30

29.Output waveforms of the circuit...30