Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Eaton Corporation

Robert L Cather

Joseph C Engel

Denis A Mueller

James F Sutherland

Clyde O Peterson

Richard B Bell

A PC computer monitors the energy consumed at a plurality of local stations placed behind the electrical meter of the utility company for individual billing of the local users, a bidirectional communication line being used between the PC computer and the plurality of local stations. A command from the PC computer causes the totalized energy to be stored at each station, and thereafter the PC computer derives individually the results for separate energy estimations and central billing.

Circuit breaker - associated backpack unit for lower-link communication

A terminal module provides for attaching components to terminals of a terminal frame. The terminal module utilizes an integral printed circuit board having a component assembly potted within a rectangular plastic shell with the remaining portion of the printed circuit board protruding from the shell for use as electrical terminals and for physical attachment to screw terminal strips of the termination frame. The modules are suitably of a predetermined geometric configuration, and the potted component assembly portion is contoured to fit between respective ones of stacked terminal strips.

Terminal module

A slide and swing chassis assembly for electronic equipment which can be slid from an enclosure and swung to one side to permit complete access to equipment on the chassis, as well as equipment at the rear of the enclosure. The chassis assembly has a pair of chassis side frames which slide along slide members within the enclosure, one of the side frames having a pivotal slide plate attached to the rear portion which is pivotal from a closed position at the rear of the chassis to an extended position parallel with the side frame, such that the chassis may be slid from the enclosure along the slide members, and swung to one side while supported by the slide plate. A stop means is provided to move the slide plate from closed to extended position, and a restraining means is provided to prevent unintentional complete removal of the chassis and slide plate from the enclosure, with biasing means provided to also assist in moving the slide plate to closed position as well as in biasing the chassis to sideward position when swung on the pivoting means to the side of the enclosure.

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Wilkins Township, PA, United States of America

Robert L Cather