Tyco Electronics Austria Gmbh

Alexander Neuhaus

Johannes Helmreich

Christoph Hauer

An electric switch is disclosed. The electric switch includes first and second terminals, and a contact sub-assembly is disposed between the first and second terminals and includes at least two contact members. The contact sub-assembly has a connecting position in which the contact members contact each other, wherein a current path extends from the first terminal to the second terminal through the contact sub-assembly in the connecting position, and an interrupting position in which the contact members are spaced apart from each other, wherein the current path does not extend from the first terminal to the second terminal in the interrupting position. At least two conductor members are disposed in the current path between the first terminal and the contact sub-assembly, and the current generates a Lorentz force between the conductor members that is mechanically translated to bias the contact sub-assembly into the interrupting position.

Electric switch

An electric switch is disclosed. The electric switch has a first terminal, a second terminal, a contact sub-assembly comprising at least two contact members disposed in a current path between the first and second terminals, the contact sub-assembly having a connecting position in which the contact members contact each other and an interrupting position in which the contact members are spaced apart from each other a Lorentz force generator comprising a first conductor member and a second conductor member, and at least one support Lorentz force generator. The Lorentz force generator and the at least one support Lorentz force generator both bias the contact sub-assembly into the connecting position, the current path extending from the first terminal to the second terminal through the contact sub-assembly in the connecting position.

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Vienna, Austria

Alexander Neuhaus