Circuit breaker with rating plug having memory
CA 2034238 C · Owner: Westinghouse Electric Corporation · Inventors: Murphy, William John
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A microprocessor based circuit breaker has a removable rating plug which provides a reference for the current rating of the breaker. The removable rating plug also has an EEPROM to which the microcomputer of the circuit breaker writes for storage, the number of operations of the circuit breaker operating mechanism and a trip history of the breaker in the form of a count of the number of trips weighted by the magnitude of the trip current. The rating plug is periodically removed and plugged into a portable programmer which selectively displays the number of operations and operating history of the circuit breaker. The programmer clears this operating data when recorded and can write into the …
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- Filed January 15, 1991 and granted June 20, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 15, 2011.
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