Patent ID: 11967477
Assignee: nan
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A programmable pushbutton breaker switch, comprising:
a) a housing having a top end, a bottom end, and an interior;
b) a pushbutton positioned in the interior at the top end of the housing;
c) an integrated LED circuit board connected to a plurality of amperage indicating light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted on a support structure in the interior of the housing and below the pushbutton;
d) a plurality of breaker circuits on an integrated breaker circuit board in the interior of the housing mounted on the support structure;
e) a plurality of LED light pipes in an interior of the pushbutton;
f) each of the LEDs being associated with a specific breaker circuit and with a specific light pipe, wherein the plurality of light pipes and the pushbutton are constructed so that light from a specific LED passes through a specific LED light pipe and produces an indicator light on the top of the pushbutton, the indicator light identifying an amperage amount, shown on the top of the pushbutton, of a specific breaker circuit;
g) a programming switch mounted on the support structure, wherein turning the programming switch on and off provides electrical signals to a computer system mounted on the support structure and wherein electrical signals from the programming switch are processed by the computer system to allow the operation of the pushbutton to select a desired breaker amperage amount from a plurality of breaker amperage amounts shown on the top of the pushbutton and to set and store the desired amperage amounts in the computer system; and
h) a programming cap attached removably to the top of the pushbutton, the programming cap having amperage amount numbers printed thereon, the amperage amount numbers being aligned with the light pipes and each amperage amount number indicating the amperage amount of the specific breaker circuit of the specific light pipe with which the amperage amount number is aligned, wherein a single push of the pushbutton places the programmable pushbutton breaker switch into a programming mode.