Hydro-quebec

Guy St-Jean

Michel Bourdages

Andre Hamel

Robert Jeanjean

Daniel Demissy

Michel Landry

Daniel Dumont

An enclosure for electric device, in particular for surge arrester, comprises an outer, cylindrical envelope and an inner wall both made of electrically non conducting materials. One of the ends of the envelope is closed while the other is open. An electrode with a principal portion inside the enclosure extends through the envelope and projects outside the latter. Bolt anchors are used for fixing the enclosure on a mechanical support and for mounting a closure device on the open end of the envelope. The material constituting the inner wall is impervious to humidity and protects the envelope against breaking thereof by thermal shock caused for example by the production of an electric arc within the enclosure, while the material constituting the cylindrical envelope is a synthetic insulating material capable of withstanding a high mechanical tension. The envelope is molded on the inner wall and around the electrode and the bolt anchors, whereby the inner wall and the electrode are integrated to the envelope, and the bolt anchors are fixedly attached to the synthetic insulating material.

Enclosure for electric device, in particular for surge arrester,

A puffer type liquefied-gas self-injection circuit breaker, used for the interruption at low temperature of a high current carried by a high-voltage power line. The circuit breaker comprises a first fixed contact and a compression chamber. The compression chamber has a bottom part which is fixed and an upper part of which is movable in the axial direction with respect to the bottom part. The upper part of the compression chamber comprises a second contact and an envelope concentrically disposed thereabout. An insulating nozzle is formed in a top portion of the envelope. The internal wall of the envelope is so shaped as to exactly match the external profile of the bottom part of the compression chamber. The breaker is also equipped with a liquefied-gas self-injection system which injects the liquefied-gas from their storage tank via a feed line and valve directly onto the electric arc formed at the moment of current interruption. This system comprises an injection chamber located in the wall of the moving part of the compression chamber. The injection chamber is terminated at one end by a narrow injection channel acting as a nozzle directed towards the electric arc while the other end rests on a compression piston formed by a pre-injection chamber. The latter forms an integral part of the fixed bottom part of the compression chamber and is equipped at its top end with a check valve permitting its use as a compression piston when the valve is closed and permitting the transfer of liqufied-gas to the injection chamber when the valve is in the open position. A storage tank placed at the bottom of the compression chamber provides for the recuperation by gravity of all the liquefied-gas in the apparatus.

Puffer type liquefied-gas self-injection circuit breaker

A gas-cooled magnetic blast circuit breaker made up of a plurality of identical modules. Each module is a flat body made of electrically non-conductive air-permeable material and is formed with an upper and a lower arc breaking chamber, the chambers being separated from one another by a central wall of the body. An electrically conductive stationary contact member is provided in each chamber, each member extending through the body for connection to the power line on opposite faces of the body. There is also provided an electrically conductive dual contact member which is pivotally mounted across the central wall of the body, this dual member having a contact gate at each end, each gate being located in one of the chambers to cooperate with the stationary contact member in that chamber. A pivotable shaft, made of electrically non-conductive material, extends transversely through the body and is connected to the dual contact member to pivot it whereby to move the contact gates simultaneously into and out of electrical junction with the stationary contact members so as to make and break current in the power line. There is provided a coil which is energizable by the current in the power line and which is adapted to create a magnetic field suitable to blow, into the arc chambers, arcs that are formed when the contact gates are moved away from the stationary contact members. The chambers are formed so as to be provided with guideways extending from outside the body to the contact members so that air may be sucked into the chamber by the blown arcs so as to cool the contact members.

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Longueuil, Canada

Guy St-Jean