Auto-Orientation of Display of a Power Distribution Unit

• US 20120229515A1
• Filed: 10/07/2011
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huimin Cao
• Original Assignee: Huimin Cao
• Inventors: Cao, Huimin
• Application Number:
  US13/269,210
• Publication Number:
  US 20120229515A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/659
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1492 having electrical distribution arrangements, e.g. power supply or data communications

Abstract

A power distribution unit with voltage and current sensors and a display which displays inverted characters when the power distribution unit upside down as sensed by a tilt sensor.

Claims

1. A power distribution unit, comprising:

a) a vertical strip enclosure having a thickness and a length longer than a width of the enclosure;

b) a power input penetrating said vertical strip enclosure;

c) a plurality of power outputs disposed along a face of said length of the strip enclosure, each among the plurality of power outputs being connectable to a corresponding one of said one or more electrical loads;

d) a plurality of sensors monitoring said plurality of power outlets and the power input;

e) a cpu coupled to the sensors;

e) a display coupled to the CPU disposed on said vertical strip enclosure coupled to the at least one among the power input and the plurality of power outputs and capable of displaying characters,

f) a tilt sensor coupled to the CPU disposed within said enclosure vertical strip enclosure such that when then tilt sensor vertical is along the length of said vertical strip enclosure;

wherein said tilt sensor is in coupled to the CPU;

g) wherein the sensors send sensor information to the CPU which the CPU selects and displays on the display; and

h) wherein if the tilt sensor is more than a specified angle off of tilt sensor vertical, the CPU causes the display displays the characters in an inverted orientation.

2. The power distribution unit of claim 1, wherein the information display is a liquid crystal display.

3. The power distribution unit of claim 1, wherein the specified angle is 60°

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4. The power distribution unit of claim 1, wherein the sensors are selected from the group consisting of voltage and current sensors.

5. The power distribution unit of claim 1, where the CPU polls either an open or a closed indicator from the tilt sensor which indicates if the tilt sensor the display is to be inverted.