Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080258667 | TEST MODULE FOR MOTOR CONTROL CENTER SUBUNIT - A system and method are provided for coordinating the installation and removal a motor control center subunit with the power connection and interruption thereof A system of interlocks and indicators causes an operator to install a motor control center subunit into a motor control center, and connect supply and control power thereto, in a particular order. Once installed, a test module system included with the subunit provides for pass-through connection of signals from equipment test points. The test module can thus relay internal conditions of the subunit to the operator without a need for disengaging or opening the subunit. | 10-23-2008 |
20090086414 | FREE-WHEELING CLUTCH FOR A MOTOR CONTROL CENTER SUBUNIT HAVING MOVEABLE LINE CONTACTS - A system and method for connecting supply power to motor control components includes use of a motor control center subunit with moveable supply power contacts. After a motor control center subunit is secured into a motor control center compartment, the supply power contacts may be advanced to engage supply power buses. For disconnection, the supply power contacts may be retracted and isolated from the buses before physical removal of the subunit. A free wheeling mechanism prevents supply power contacts from advancing and retracting past a preset travel range. | 04-02-2009 |
20100118473 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER SUBUNIT HAVING VISIBLE CONTACT DISCONNECTION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A motor control center subunit includes a subunit housing configured to fit within a motor control center. The housing has a front panel. The motor control center subunit also includes a drive mechanism attached to the subunit housing. The drive mechanism is configured to control a plurality of line connectors to move between a retracted position and an extended position when the subunit housing is seated in the motor control center and the front panel of the subunit housing is in a closed position. A window is disposed in the front panel of the subunit housing and is positioned to provide a view of the plurality of line connectors. | 05-13-2010 |
20100157512 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER SUBUNIT HAVING MOVEABLE LINE CONTACTS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A system and method for connecting supply power to motor control components includes use of a motor control center subunit with moveable supply power contacts. After a motor control center subunit is secured into a motor control center compartment, the supply power contacts may be advanced to engage supply power buses. For disconnection, the supply power contacts may be refracted and isolated from the buses before physical removal of the subunit. | 06-24-2010 |
20110032663 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER AND SUBUNIT THEREFOR - A subunit is provided for a motor control center including an enclosure, a number of compartments, a plurality of power lines, and a number of covers for covering the compartments. The subunit includes a housing removably disposed within a corresponding one of the compartments, a plurality of electrical contacts movably coupled to the housing, and an actuating assembly for moving the electrical contacts into and out of electrical contact with the power lines. The subunit further includes at least one of a locking assembly, a panel assembly, and a secondary disconnect assembly. The locking assembly locks the position of the electrical contacts and restricts access to the actuating assembly. The panel assembly is pivotable and translatable with respect to the subunit housing. The secondary disconnect assembly is independent from the actuating assembly in order that movement of the electrical contacts does not move the secondary disconnect assembly. | 02-10-2011 |
20110149479 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER AND SUBUNIT THEREFOR - A subunit is provided for a motor control center including an enclosure, a number of compartments, a plurality of power lines, and a number of covers for covering the compartments. The subunit includes a housing removably disposed within a corresponding one of the compartments, a plurality of electrical contacts movably coupled to the housing, and an actuating assembly for moving the electrical contacts into and out of electrical contact with the power lines. The subunit further includes at least one of a locking assembly, a panel assembly, and a secondary disconnect assembly. The locking assembly locks the position of the electrical contacts and restricts access to the actuating assembly. The panel assembly is pivotable and translatable with respect to the subunit housing. The secondary disconnect assembly is independent from the actuating assembly in order that movement of the electrical contacts does not move the secondary disconnect assembly. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149480 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER AND SUBUNIT THEREFOR - A subunit is provided for a motor control center including an enclosure, a number of compartments, a plurality of power lines, and a number of covers for covering the compartments. The subunit includes a housing removably disposed within a corresponding one of the compartments, a plurality of electrical contacts movably coupled to the housing, and an actuating assembly for moving the electrical contacts into and out of electrical contact with the power lines. The subunit further includes at least one of a locking assembly, a panel assembly, and a secondary disconnect assembly. The locking assembly locks the position of the electrical contacts and restricts access to the actuating assembly. The panel assembly is pivotable and translatable with respect to the subunit housing. The secondary disconnect assembly is independent from the actuating assembly in order that movement of the electrical contacts does not move the secondary disconnect assembly. | 06-23-2011 |
20110232039 | Enhanced Disconnect Handle Operators - An extendable device engages and operates a handle mounted on an electrical switching apparatus. The extendable device includes a first linear portion and a second linear portion, each of the first and second linear portions having a first end and a second end, a handle adaptor extending away from the second end of one of the first and second linear portions and a retainer mechanism structured to engage the first linear portion and the second linear portion such that the extendable device can be adjusted to a particular length and maintained at the particular length. The handle adaptor is structured to engage the handle such that the handle can be moved from a first position to a different second position. | 09-29-2011 |
20110285483 | REMOTE OPERATION OF A MOTOR CONTROL CENTER SUBUNIT DISCONNECT - A system and method are provided for remotely actuating a subunit disconnect in a motor control center subunit. A motor control center subunit includes a subunit housing configured to fit within a motor control center and a subunit disconnect configured to selectively control a supply power to motor control components of the subunit housing. A control mechanism is attached to the subunit housing to activate and deactivate the subunit disconnect and a remote control device communicates with the control mechanism and is configured to operate the control mechanism to activate and deactivate the subunit disconnect. | 11-24-2011 |
20120033351 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER AND BUS ASSEMBLY THEREFOR - A bus assembly is provided for a motor control center (MCC). The MCC includes an enclosure, an electrical switching apparatus, such as a circuit breaker, which is removably coupled to the enclosure, and at least one subunit. The bus assembly includes a horizontal bus, a number of vertical buses, and a number of short circuit protective devices (SCPDs), such as fuses or circuit breakers. The horizontal bus is electrically connected to the circuit breaker, each vertical bus electrically connects a corresponding subunit to the horizontal bus, and each SCPD is disposed between the horizontal bus and a corresponding one of the vertical buses. The SCPDs reduce the peak current level and arc flash energy experienced by the subunits, and relatively quickly clear the arcing event. | 02-09-2012 |
20130088812 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER SUBUNIT HAVING MOVEABLE LINE CONTACTS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A system and method for connecting supply power to motor control components includes use of a motor control center subunit with moveable supply power contacts. After a motor control center subunit is secured into a motor control center compartment, the supply power contacts may be advanced to engage supply power buses. For disconnection, the supply power contacts may be retracted and isolated from the buses before physical removal of the subunit. | 04-11-2013 |
20130279081 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THEREFOR - A communication system is provided for a motor control center. The motor control center includes an enclosure and a plurality of subunits. The enclosure comprises a framework for dividing the enclosure into a plurality of compartments. The subunits are removably disposed within the compartments. The communication system includes a mounting bracket fixedly attached to the framework, within a corresponding one of the compartments, and a communication module mounted on the mounting bracket. The communication module includes a housing and a number of features such as, for example and without limitation, a DIP switch and electrical connector(s), disposed on the housing. Accordingly, when the subunit is removed from the compartment, the communication module remains, fixed to the enclosure framework. The mounting bracket includes a hinge that allows the communication module to pivot with respect to the compartment to provide access to the features. | 10-24-2013 |
20150221458 | DISCONNECT OPERATING HANDLES SUITABLE FOR CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND RELATED BUCKET ASSEMBLIES - Disconnect operating handles for circuit breakers are configured with a rotary handle attached to an inwardly oriented shaft that connects to a gear assembly that translates rotational input to linear input. The disconnect operating handles include pivoting lockout levers that automatically “pop” out to expose the lockout space for a padlock when a user touches the lever in an appropriate location. | 08-06-2015 |
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20090138851 | AUTOMATED DEFECT CLASSIFICATION - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to defect classification for software development and provide a method, system and computer program product for automated defect classification in a software development tool. In an embodiment of the invention, a defect classification method can be provided. The method can include computing differences between versions of a line of source code, lexically analyzing the computed differences to produce a lexical construct, mapping the lexical construct to a classification, and assigning the defect classification to the line of source code. | 05-28-2009 |
20100013855 | AUTOMATICALLY CALIBRATING PICTURE SETTINGS ON A DISPLAY IN ACCORDANCE WITH MEDIA STREAM SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS - A solution for optimizing settings of a media display device is disclosed. In the solution, a media stream can be identified. At least one stream characteristic specific to the media stream can be determined. This characteristic can be embedded in the stream itself or can be determined by analyzing the stream. At least one display device setting for playback of the media stream can be determined based at least in part upon the determined stream characteristic(s). One or more setting of the media display device can be dynamically and automatically adjusted based upon the determined display device setting(s). | 01-21-2010 |
20100023330 | SPEED PODCASTING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to podcasting and provide a method, system and computer program product for speed podcasting. In an embodiment of the invention, a speed podcasting method can include speech recognizing an audio portion of a podcast, parsing the speech recognized audio portion to identify essential words, and playing back only audio segments and corresponding video segments of the podcast including the essential words while excluding from playback audio segments and corresponding video segments of the podcast including non-essential words. | 01-28-2010 |
20120222007 | AUTOMATED DEFECT CLASSIFICATION - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to defect classification for software development and provide a method, system and computer program product for automated defect classification in a software development tool. In an embodiment of the invention, a defect classification method can be provided. The method can include computing differences between versions of a line of source code, lexically analyzing the computed differences to produce a lexical construct, mapping the lexical construct to a classification, and assigning the defect classification to the line of source code. | 08-30-2012 |
20140201659 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A TWISTY USER INTERFACE ELEMENT - A method and system for providing an adjustable user interface (UI) element comprises displaying as part of a UI of an application window a UI control element that controls a variably-sized content section. Responsive to receiving a variable adjustment made to the UI control element by a user, the variably-sized content section is resized in proportion to an amount of the variable adjustment received. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A TWISTY USER INTERFACE ELEMENT - A method and system for providing an adjustable user interface (UI) element comprises displaying as part of a UI of an application window a UI control element that controls a variably-sized content section. Responsive to receiving a variable adjustment made to the UI control element by a user, the variably-sized content section is resized in proportion to an amount of the variable adjustment received. | 07-17-2014 |