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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2015
Schneider Electric Usa, Inc., Palatine, IL (US);
Paul A. Reid, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Schneider Electric USA, Inc., Andover, MA (US);
Abstract
An indicator system for an electronic miniature circuit breaker that has tripped and therefore has no power to provide its own trip indication comprises a breaker in a tripping state and an adjacent breaker in a nontripping state, both with aligned indicator light tubes and data transmission lines or light pipes. The tripped, or tripping, breaker sends a Notice of Trip Data signal before its contacts open and its power goes out, or does so on reserve power. A neighboring breaker's transceiver receives the Notice of Trip Data signal, encodes it, and then repeats it back via an LED and indicator light tube to the tripped breaker. The trip occurrence has opened a shutter on the tripped breaker which allows it to display the repeated Notice of Trip Data signal as a visible light indication through an indicator window in its top wall.