Abstract:
Building automation systems, energy meters, and associated methods. A method includes receiving a plurality of voltage inputs and a plurality of current inputs from a multiphase power source. The method includes selecting a first voltage input from the plurality of voltage inputs. The method includes performing a signed power factor computation between respective pairs of the first voltage input and each of the plurality of current inputs. The method includes identifying a pair with a greatest positive power factor value. The method includes designating the identified pair with the greatest positive power factor value as an associated phase pair.
Abstract:
An adjustable magnetic trip device for a molded case circuit breaker is provided where the trip device includes a plunger and a stationary core as well as a plunger support structure with a movable plunger carriage. The position of the plunger assembly and carriage relative to the stationary core is determined by a cam assembly having a body with a plurality of sections, each section having a different radius. The plunger carriage is responsive to rotation of said cam assembly and may be adjusted by rotating the cam. The over-current condition for the trip device is a function of the distance between the plunger assembly and the stationary core. Accordingly, the over-current condition may be changed by rotating the cam. As each section of the cam has a constant radius, the over-current condition remains the same no matter where the carriage contacts a certain section of the cam.
Abstract:
An accelerating mechanism in an overcurrent relay for accelerating the speed of moving operation of a resetting bar or the speed of motion in a normally closed contact caused by the resetting bar. In the application of the relay to any resetting mechanism, which effects resetting with a movement of the resetting bar, the relay can eliminate a very hazardous abnormal operation that a resetting operation is stored in a toggle mechanism, thus improving the safety of the resetting mechanism.
Abstract:
A reset rod (43) of a thermal overload relay is configured to be switchable between a manual reset position in which a reversal mechanism (21) is manually returned to an initial state prior to reversal by performing a pushing-in operation, and an automatic reset position in which a pushed-in state is held by a pushing and rotating operation from this manual reset position, and the reversal mechanism (21) is automatically returned to the initial position. In addition, axial runout restriction portions (17b, 17d, 51, 46 and 47), which restrict axial runout of the reset rod (43) when the reset rod (43) is held in the automatic reset position, are provided.
Abstract:
A thermal overload relay includes a main bimetal for detection of an overload current, a shifter associated with the main bimetal, a release lever working according to a displacement of the shifter, a contact reversing mechanism for changing-over contacts by reversing action caused by rotation of the release lever, and a manipulation structure for manipulating the release lever and the contact reversing mechanism. The manipulation structure includes a reset bar for returning the contact reversing mechanism to an initial state. The reset bar is arranged to change-over between a manual reset state in which the reset bar can be pushed-in and an automatic reset state in which the reset bar is pushed-in and turned from the manual reset state and held in that state.
Abstract:
In an instantaneous-tripping circuit breaker, a heater-mounted main bimetal, a shifter of a differential shifter mechanism, and an adjustment dial of a thermal overload/open-phase tripping device are removed from a standard circuit breaker equipped with a breaking section, an opening and closing mechanism section, a thermal overload/open-phase tripping device, and an electromagnetic instantaneous tripping device in a case. Instead, a trip coil of the instantaneous tripping device is connected to a main circuit via a connection conductor of a low resistance, a test-tripping part is mounted in place of the shifter of the differential shifter mechanism, and the adjustment dial is replaced with a dummy dial. Accordingly, the standard circuit breaker is changed to an instantaneous-breaking circuit breaker.
Abstract:
Apparatus for adjusting the calibration of a thermal trip unit which is to be used in conjunction with an electrical circuit breaker. A rotatable knob is provided which adjusts the trip unit to between one hundred percent of the rating of the circuit breaker and some value which is less than one hundred percent. An adjustable stop screw is provided to engage the rotatable knob when the knob is rotated to adjust the calibration of the trip unit to the desired value which is less than one hundred percent of the rating of the breaker. The adjustable stop screw thereby limits travel of the adjustable knob between only one hundred percent of the rating of the circuit breaker and the desired value which is less than one hundred percent.