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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1976
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Samuel G Hardy, Durham, NH (US);
Joseph L Peterson, Durham, NH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ; G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324137 ; 324125 ; 335225 ;
Abstract
A restraining means of mildly magnetic material is adjustably implanted in the rotor disc of a conventional watthour meter. The restraining means interacts with a magnetic field generated by the meter's damping magnet to stop the disc from turning when the rate of energy consumption in the metered circuit is below a predetermined rate. The predetermined rate can be altered by varying the radial distance between the center of the disc and the restraining means and by varying the amount of magnetic material passing through the field of the damping magnet.