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AssigneeEaton Intelligent Power Limited
InventorsMissael Enrique Coste Nunez, Glennys Johanny De Jesus Reyes, Luis Enrique Betances Sansur, Luis Jose Ynfante Peña, Ramon Alexander Perez Suarez
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An improved cradle for a circuit breaker is structured to latch and unlatch the operating mechanism and to directly actuate a trip alarm. A support structure partitions the interior of the circuit breaker housing into a mechanism side and a PCB side. The cradle includes a main body and a cradle arm. The operating mechanism and main body are on the mechanism side, and a PCB and trip alarm are positioned on the PCB side. The cradle arm extends from the mechanism side through an opening formed in the support structure to the PCB side. When the circuit breaker is in the ON state, the cradle latches the operating mechanism. When the PCB detects a fault condition, the PCB initiates action that rotates the cradle, causing the cradle to unlatch the operating mechanism and causing the cradle arm to actuate the trip alarm.
A circuit breaker, the circuit breaker comprising:
A cradle structured to be installed within a housing of a circuit breaker and to latch and unlatch an operating mechanism of the circuit breaker, the operating mechanism being operatively coupled to separable contacts positioned between a line terminal and a load terminal, and the circuit breaker comprising an alarm switch, the cradle comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.