Patents by Inventor Edward J. Vibert

Edward J. Vibert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4247840
    Abstract: A duplex electrical receptacle providing ground fault protection and mountable in an ordinary wall outlet box and including a metal support plate formed to telescope over a container of electrical insulating material and be affixed thereto and to a wall outlet box with the container having therein a pair of bus-bar conductors of identical configuration and reversibly positioned, flexible spring-like connectors coupling a power source to the bus-bar conductors, a plugable printed circuit board with associated electrical circuitry and components for detecting a ground fault condition, and a re-set guide assembly responsive to the circuitry of the printed circuit board for effecting connection and disconnection of a power source and the bus bar conductors of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Cooper, William T. Monoski, Edward J. Vibert
  • Patent number: 4237435
    Abstract: A duplex electrical receptacle providing ground fault protection and mountable in an ordinary wall outlet box and including a metal support plate formed to telescope over a container of electrical insulating material and be affixed thereto and to a wall outlet box with the container having therein a pair of bus-bar conductors of identical configuration and reversibly positioned, flexible spring-like connectors coupling a power source to the bus-bar conductors, a plugable printed circuit board with associated electrical circuitry and components for detecting a ground fault condition, and a re-set guide assembly responsive to the circuitry of the printed circuit board for effecting connection and disconnection of a power source and the bus bar conductors of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Cooper, William T. Monoski, Edward J. Vibert
  • Patent number: 4236128
    Abstract: A duplex electrical receptacle providing ground fault protection and mountable in an ordinary wall outlet box and including a metal support plate formed to telescope over a container of electrical insulating material and be affixed thereto and to a wall outlet box with the container having therein a pair of bus-bar conductors of identical configuration and reversibly positioned, flexible spring-like connectors coupling a power source to the bus-bar conductors, a plugable printed circuit board with associated electrical circuitry and components for detecting a ground fault condition, and a re-set guide assembly responsive to the circuitry of the printed circuit board for effecting connection and disconnection of a power source and the bus bar conductors of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1980
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Cooper, William T. Monoski, Edward J. Vibert
  • Patent number: 4051544
    Abstract: A fail-safe ground fault receptacle circuit includes a ground fault circuit interrupter inductively coupled to a load, directly coupled to one potential source terminal, and coupled by way of a series connected solenoid winding and contacts of a circuit breaker shunted by a series connected impedance and indicating lamp to another potential source terminal whereby manually closing the circuit breaker causes current flow through the solenoid winding shunting the indicator lamp and preventing activation thereof and excessive current flow through the solenoid winding opens the circuit breaker to cause current flow through and activation of the indicating lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Edward J. Vibert