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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1999
Viktors Berstis, Austin, TX (US);
Joel Leslie Smith, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a load balancing and distributing switch-on/turn-on control for a circuit breaker, an appliance, a device, or an apparatus wherein each switch-on device on a circuit breaker, appliance, device, or apparatus generates and provides a turn-on time delay up to a maximum turn-on time delay so that the turn-on times and respective loads after a power failure from all circuit breakers, appliances, devices, and/or apparatuses are distributed and/or balanced over a turn-on period. The present invention distributes and balances the load and consumption by various appliances, devices, and apparatuses at the time of initial power up after a power failure. The present invention also distributes the turn-on times of the various appliances, devices, and apparatuses at the initial power up time. A circuit system and method for load balancing and distributing switch-on control of an operating device. A micro-controller is able to couple to the operating device and to a power-in bus for receiving power from a power source. A relay switch system is coupled to the micro-controller for controlling the power from the power-in bus. The relay switch system is able to couple to a power-out bus to control the power to the operating device. The micro-controller generates a power-up delay time through which the micro-controller must wait and control the relay switch system to hold the power to the power-out bus before the relay switch is released to supply the power to the power-out bus for operation of the operating device.