Patent ID: 7986501

Claim:
A circuit interrupting device configured to cause electrical discontinuity along a conductive path upon the occurrence of a predetermined condition, comprising: a fault sensing circuit configured to detect the predetermined condition and to generate a circuit interrupting actuation signal; and a coil and plunger assembly, having at least one coil and a plunger actuatable by the circuit interrupting actuation signal and configured and disposed within the circuit interrupting device so that upon detection of the occurrence of the predetermined condition the plunger will move in a fault direction from a non-actuated configuration to an actuated configuration a distance sufficient to cause disengagement of at least one set of contacts from each other and thereby cause electrical discontinuity along the conductive path; and a test assembly configured to cause the plunger to move in a test direction, from a pre-test configuration to a post-test configuration, a distance insufficient to disengage the at least one set of contacts from each other.