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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7339132 | Method of current interruption using puffer type gas circuit breaker with combined-action of cylinder and piston A puffer type gas circuit breaker has a piston, which is connected with a center shaft via a link mechanism. At an initial stage of an interruption operation, the link mechanism drives a puffer cylinder and the piston both in an interruption direction while maintain... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7317264 | Method and apparatus to independently control contactors in a multiple contactor configuration A method and apparatus to independently control the closing or making of contactors in a modular contactor assembly is disclosed. The apparatus includes a contactor assembly having multiple contactors such that each contactor is separately controlled such that one c... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7196434 | Modular contactor assembly having independently controllable contractors The present invention provides an electrical isolation apparatus having independently controllable contactors. The isolation apparatus includes a contactor for each phase or pole of an electrical device as well as each phase or pole of a load. Each contactor is cons... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7115831 | Vacuum interrupter with a switch contact piece According to the invention, heat generated inside a vacuum interrupter (1) is to be extracted, essentially by means of the pins (7, 8) of the contact pieces (5, 6) and, in order to improve the transmission of heat, a first slide contact surface ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7057311 | Isolation contactor assembly having independently controllable contactors The present invention provides an electrical isolation apparatus having independently controllable contactors. The isolation apparatus includes a contactor for each phase or pole of an electrical device as well as each phase or pole of a load. Each contactor is cons... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053326 | Integrated type gas-insulated switching apparatus In an integrated type gas-insulated switching apparatus, a plurality of switching devices are provided. Each of switching devices includes a contact and an insulated container in which the contact is contained. The contact comprises electrodes adapted to be contacte... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6956728 | Method and apparatus to control modular asynchronous contactors A modular asynchronous contactor assembly includes a contactor for each phase or pole of an electrical device. The contactor assembly is applicable as both a switching device and an isolation or load protection device. As such, each contactor is constructed so that ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952332 | Vacuum arc eliminator having a bullet assembly actuated by a gas generating device A vacuum arc interrupter that includes a vacuum chamber assembly and a pressure chamber assembly. The vacuum chamber assembly includes a vacuum chamber and a first conductor which is structured to be coupled to a circuit. The first conductor is disposed within the v... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6919785 | Pressure sensitive trip mechanism for a rotary breaker A pressure sensitive trip mechanism for actuating a circuit breaker operating mechanism to trip a circuit breaker includes a trip lever and a trip bar. The trip lever is rotatable about a first pivot. The trip bar is positioned proximate the trip lever. The trip bar... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6853524 | Vacuum arc interrupter having a tapered conducting bullet assembly A vacuum arc interrupter that includes a vacuum chamber assembly having a first conductor and a pressure chamber assembly having a second metal conductor, with an opening, and a bullet assembly. The first conductor is coupled to a power line and the second conductor... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6787725 | Switching mechanism of circuit breaker for gas insulted switchgear A switching mechanism of a circuit breaker for a gas insulated switchgear is able to extinguish arc gas by changing a volume of a compressing chamber without increasing a stroke of a movable cylinder and without increasing required output power of an actuator. ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6252190 | Electrical high speed circuit breaker with explosive charges including ablative arc extinguishing material A simple high-speed circuit breaker which is cheap to produce is specified for alternating currents which have to be switched off, which switches such currents off within one half-cycle at the current zero crossing, by means of a gas-generating explosive ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6107590 | Circuit-breaker with an explosive charge ignited during opening operation Extending between a fixed tulip contact (1) and a slide tulip (4) is an arcing chamber (5) which is occupied in the closed position by a movable contact pin (3) which fills up both an exhaust (9) surrounded by the slide tulip (4) and a blowout opening (7)... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6100489 | Consumable switching arrangement In the switched-on position, under the influence of contact forces generated by elastic deflection or else by mechanical spreading, or spreading caused by the attraction of parallel currents or repulsion of antiparallel currents, of a switching pin (5) , ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5902978 | Power breaker This power breaker has at least one quenching chamber, which is filled with an insulating medium, is of cylindrical design, extends along a central axis (2) and has a power current path, having two stationary consumable contact arrangements (5, 6) which a... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5844189 | Circuit breaker having contacts with erosion-resistant covering A circuit breaker includes a cylindrical arcing chamber filled with an insulating medium. The arcing chamber has a power current path and an insulating housing. The insulating housing has a longitudinal axis and the power current path extends along the lo... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5783791 | Gas insulated interrupter A puffer-type gas insulated interrupter has stationary and moving main contacts, stationary and moving arc contacts for discharging an arc, and a puffer cylinder for electric arc suppression. At the time of current interruption, the puffer cylinder moves ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5780799 | Reduced autocompression circuit-breaker This present invention concerns a circuit-breaker of the self-blasting type including a system for immobilizing the semi-mobile piston during a first part of displacement of the mobile contact assembly between the closed position and the open position and... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5767471 | Pressurized gas circuit-breaker In a pressurized gas circuit-breaker the mobile contact member is fixed to a connecting rod that passes coaxially through the fixed braking cylinder. The braking cylinder has transverse walls at both ends so as to delimit a cylinder. The connecting rod ha... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5723840 | Gas-dielectric high-tension interrupter of the arc-puffer type A gas-dielectric high-tension interrupter of the arc-puffer type in which the puff of gas is brought about by the combined effect of an excess pressure developed in a compression chamber and intensified by the heating caused by the arc radiation, which is... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5717183 | High-voltage power switch with a cooling device for cooling the quenching gas An electric high-voltage power switch has two contacts and at least one gas outlet for quenching gas heated by the arc generated between the contacts. A cooling device is provided for cooling the quenching gas. The cooling device is formed of a metal body... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5705781 | Electrical gas-blast switch In a gas-blast switch with a compression device to produce a quenching gas blast, in order to make the magnetic effect of the break current available already at the beginning of the cut-off movement, a compression chamber and a piston-cylinder system form... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5703552 | Electrical safety switch For protecting the pump of a carpet cleaner, the cut-out terminals 16, 15 are commanded by the pressure of fluid in passage 11, 12, 13 which communicates with volume 22 having as an upper wall a flexible diaphragm 24. A fluid tight and electrically insula... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5610381 | Compression gas puffer type circuit breaker A compression gas puffer type circuit breaker has a magnetic body surrounding a conductor between a stationary arc contact and a main bus conductor. The magnetic body is protected from being exposed to heated puffer gas generated when a movable arc contac... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5585610 | Moving gas mixing plate for puffer interrupter A steel plate of area greater than the area of the output of a nozzle in a puffer gas interrupter is fixed to but is spaced from the downstream end of the nozzle and causes turbulence in the hot interrupter gases flowing through the nozzle to improve mixi... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5578805 | Metal-enclosed gas-filled switchgear units A metal-enclosed, gas-filled switchgear unit has at least two busbar systems and a circuit breaker which respectively has per pole a pole axis and at least one arcing chamber built into a pole housing constructed as a metal enclosure. The pole axes are ar... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5578804 | Metal-enclosed gas-insulated switching installation A metal-enclosed, gas-insulated switching installation includes at least two busbar systems and a circuit breaker. Each circuit breaker is in the form of a pole having a pole axis and at least one extinction chamber, installed in a pole housing. The pole ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5543597 | Grounding switch gear device A first puffer chamber is formed by a puffer cylinder having a substantially cylindrical flange portion and a shaft portion, and a fixedly disposed piston. The piston is formed in a cylindrical shape sealed with respect to an external space, and is consti... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5514844 | Switch A switch for use in electric power includes a fixed contact, a moving contact performing a switching operation with respect to the fixed contact, a cylinder working with the moving contact, a piston slidably provided in the cylinder, a buffer chamber whic... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5495084 | Slip-through mounting structure for circuit interrupter The movable contact of a puffer interrupter contains a movable conductive tubular sleeve which is electrically connected to and is slidably mounted within a hollow conductive adapter which is supported from the end of a bushing insulator. An insulation ro... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5453591 | Sensing structure for component wear in high voltage circuit interrupters A vaporizable material, for example, a silicone, that is buried beneath the surface of a Teflon nozzle for a sulfur hexafluoride power circuit breaker in an area of the nozzle which is exposed to abrasion and wear due to arc products. In a similar manner,... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5293014 | Circuit breaker with triple movement for high or medium voltages A circuit breaker has within a casing filled with a dielectric gas, especially SF6, a first arcing contact electrically connected to a first terminal, and a second arcing contact electrically connected to a second terminal. The second arcing co... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5151565 | Medium tension circuit breaker A medium tension circuit breaker comprising a casing of insulating material enclosing a gas having good dielectric properties and containing the following: first contacts connected to a first current terminal and second contacts connected to a second curr... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5134256 | Puffer interrupter switch An electrical switch apparatus comprising at least one set of contacts including a movable contact and a stationary contact, at least one chamber surrounding the contacts, a first support for supporting the chamber, a second support for supporting the sta... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5079391 | Puffer type gas circuit breaker, contact cover and insulated nozzle of the breaker A puffer type gas circuit breaker having at least one pair of a stationary contact and a movable contact capable of being separated from each other, a pressure producing section including a puffer cylinder and a puffer piston. The puffer cylinder is conne... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5072083 | Grounded gas blast circuit breaker/isolating switch with visual inspection assembly A circuit breaker/isolating switch device intended, in particular, to be associated with a generator in a power station for protection purposes. The device is disposed inside a metal sheath and comprises a gastight insulating casing filled with a gas havi... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5045651 | Switch A switch provided with a negative pressure chamber which is actuated in association with the separating operation of a movable contact. The negative pressure chamber is connected to a means for supplying a fluid to the negative pressure chamber so as to s... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4935590 | Gas-blast circuit breaker A puffer SF6 circuit breaker comprises a pair of separable contacts with formation of a breaking gap, a piston-cylinder assembly to compress the gas when the movable contact is actuated to the open position, and a puffer nozzle designed to channel the gas... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4916998 | Electric switch and integrated switch-preaccelerator system for an electromagnetic projectile launcher An integrated switch-preaccelerator system for use in an electromagnetic launcher includes a pair of spaced generally parallel preaccelerator rails, a pair of spaced first and second conductive switch terminal elements disposed adjacent upstream ends of t... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4910367 | Visible break switch An SF6 puffer interrupter switch includes one or more viewing windows located on the housing. The viewing windows are strategically located on a sidewall of the housing to allow all of the puffer interrupter assemblies within the housing to be ... | 03/20/1990 |
