Sprecher Energie Ag

Areva T&d Ag

Alstom Technology Limited

Areva T&d Sa

Areva T&o Ag

General Electric Technology Gmbh

Alstom Grid Ag

Ernst Suter

Bruno Lippi

Thomas Meier

Jean-Pierre Dupraz

Peter Von Allmen

Jean-Luc Thomas

Serge Poullain

Hans-Rudolf Wuthrich

Xavier Allaire

Philippe Manin

Simon Ardyna

Sylvain Plante

Eric Courbon

The control device possesses a rigid main part combining most of the functional elements of this type of control device. It is made up of two portions of a rotary shaft, having placed between them a cam and a support arm that are connected together by a pivot that is offset relative to the axis of rotation. A toothed wheel having an inner set of teeth is placed around the support arm that is provided with a rachet system. The toothed wheel has an outer set of teeth-driven by a motor, via an intermediate gearwheel. The pivot controls the compression of the actuator spring by the assembly rotating. The device is applicable to high and medium voltage circuit breakers and switches.

Control device of the spring type particularly for a high-voltage or medium-voltage circuit breaker or switch

An actuator having a frame which is fixed to an electric motor; a gear drive for transmitting motion from the motor to a drive shaft between two predetermined positions, and a brake consisting of a coil spring, having, when relaxed, an inside diameter that is smaller than the outside diameter of a support shaft that is fixed relative to the gear drive, and around which the spring is coiled, each of the two free ends of the spring being arranged in a respective slot, formed in the frame.

Electro-mechanical actuator equipped with a mechanical brake of coil spring type

An electro-mechanical actuator having means for transmitting motion, in the final part of a stroke performed by a system comprising a worm shaft and rider nut coupled through gearing with an electric motor, to an auxiliary interrupter for breaking the power supply to the motor. Two control levers are provided, these being coupled together, and being rotated, about a perpendicular axis, by a cursor which is fixed to the nut that slides on the worm shaft. The pivoting of the said levers is blocked during the movement of the drive shaft driven by the system consisting of the worm shaft and nut. By contrast, the levers pivot during the final part of the movement of the cursor. The distance through which the levers move in pivoting is large enough to avoid any need for the auxiliary interrupter to be a high precision component.

Electro-mechanical actuator, and a high or medium voltage disconnector having such an actuator

Operating mechanism for medium and high voltage switchgear, in which a rotatable main shaft is coupled to a switch, and a rocker plate is rotatable with the main shaft, the main shaft being arranged to open and close said switch by tilting the rocker plate. The rocker plate constitutes a plurality of force transmission levers and comprises a plurality of zones distributed around the main shaft. A rotary actuator has force transmitting means for driving the rocker plate in a direction corresponding to closing of the switch, and an opening spring for driving the rocker plate in a direction corresponding to opening of the switch. Closed switch locking means are coupled to the rocker plate () and are disposed substantially in a common plane of the rocker plate.

Compact operating mechanism for medium and high voltage switchgear

A device for controlling a circuit-breaker intended for opening and closing this electric power cut-off device comprising a mobile contact, this control device comprising a motor with a rotary output shaft and being connected to power supply means and actuating means transforming the output displacement of the motor into a displacement of the contact, this device also comprising a mechanical spring arrangement involved in opening and closing the contact. The actuation means include a set of jointed elements providing the connection of the rotary shaft and of the ring, and, in the closed position of the contact, the set of jointed elements is near a dead centre position, a so-called open dead centre, the opening spring being only able to drive it towards the open position upon moving past this dead centre during opening.

Device for controlling an electric power cutoff device

An electrical contact assembly has a contact carrier formed with symmetrically opposed rows of comb-like guides, opposed rows of double-ended contact fingers mounted in the guides, a first contact piece supported by the contact carrier between the contact fingers at one end of the fingers and a second contact piece for insertion between the contact fingers at the opposite end of the fingers. For resiliently urging the fingers to contact the respective contact pieces, a pair of spring elements are attached to the contact carrier. Each spring element has a central web mounted on the carrier and opposite rows of arms extending from the web to engage opposite portions of the respective fingers.

Electrical contact assembly

A housing of a vacuum switch has in an upper connecting region a passage, through which the connecting element is led. The latter engages with its end region in a recess, opposite the passage, in the housing. In the region of the passage, the connecting element is supported on a support tongue and clamped tight by a wedge-shaped retaining member. The vacuum switch chamber is bolted on to the connecting element. The connecting element can also be secured to the housing at the support point opposite the passage.

Vacuum switch

An insulating supporting frame of a multi-pin switch arrangement has a box-shaped base part and an insulating supporting part arranged over it. Insulating housings encompassing the vacuum switch tubes are formed onto a wall part. On the rear, bearing parts which are parallel to one another and at a distance from one another are cast onto the wall part, the bearing parts being connected to a top wall of the box-shaped base part. A drive shaft of a spring-force drive is mounted on the bearing parts. The spring-force drive is connected via a linkage to a movable switch contact of the vacuum switch tube. The one-piece insulating supporting frame is constructed in such a way that practically all the parts of the switch arrangement can be arranged on it.

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