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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1998
Manjunath Garalapuraiaha, Farmington, CT (US);
Matthew D. Marple, Plainville, CT (US);
Karl Pedersen, Ansonia, CT (US);
Eric B. Reed, E. Berlin, CT (US);
Leslie Rosenau, Dover, NH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A disk analog display for a solid state electricity meter includes a series of segments that illuminate sequentially to indicate the direction of current flowing through the meter and the rate at which energy is being consumed by the load. The sequential illumination provides notice to a technician that the meter is completing the measurement of one energy consumption unit so that the measurement by the meter of one energy consumption unit can be accurately timed. In one embodiment, there are three segments that illuminate sequentially to indicate that the meter is completing measurement of one energy consumption unit. The segments then simultaneously blank to indicate that the meter has completed the measurement of one energy consumption unit.