Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Hideya Kondo

Yoichi Yokoyama

Nobuhiro Kitamura

Youichi Aoyama

Tamotsu Mori

Youichi Yokoyama

Riichi Uotome

Takaaki Chuzawa

Takehiko Toguchi

Mamoru Tateno

Tetsuyasu Kawamoto

Kiwamu Shibata

Satoshi Kajiyama

Yoichi Kunimoto

Hiroaki Hamaguchi

Kiyoshi Goto

Kunio Takemura

Takeshi Ono

Jun Saito

Hirofumi Fukazawa

Akira Yoshio

Shigeru Honoki

Takatoshi Hongyou

In the setting operation conducted by the handle,which is an operating section, an upper portion of the portion,&prime; of the slidable T-post,is pushed by the end portion of the cam,, and the slidable T-post,is moved. In accordance with the movement of the card,, the suction cup block,is elastically deformed, and the suction cup,is held by the body,by a holding force of the suction cup,. The body,is composed of a porous body, and air flows from the ventilation hole,into a space formed between the suction cup,and the body,, via the body,. The slidable T-post,is biased ahead by the return spring,. When the releasing operation is conducted by the handle,, the cam,is rotated, and the end portion of the cam,is separated from the end of the portion,&prime; to be pushed. After that, when the intensity of the holding force of the suction cup,to the body,is decreased lower than that of the spring force of the return spring,, the slidable T-post,is moved ahead, so that the card member,pushes up the movable contactor

Delay switch with delay unit

A sealed contact unit that attains stabilized contact switching operation and effective dimensional minimization with an arrangement wherein a switching contact section including opposing movable and stationary contacting members is housed within a sealed container together with an electrically insulating gas, a movable shaft interlocked to the movable contacting member is hermetically passed through a wall of the container to be axially shiftable with an end projected externally while the movable contacting member biased away from the stationary contacting member by a resetting spring is mounted through a contact-pressure spring to the other end of the movable shaft inside the container, the contact-pressure spring being provided to coaxially enclose the movable shaft and biasing the movable contacting member against the biasing force of the resetting spring for attaining a contact-pressure when the movable contact member shifts to engage the stationary contact member fixed inside the container, a driving section for switching ON and OFF between movable and stationary contacts of the movable and stationary contacting members is engaged to the projected end of the movable shaft for axial drive of the shaft.

Plural sealed contact units with common electromagnetic operating

A contact device is provided with an additional mass member secured to a movable contactor carrying a movable contact capable of opening and closing contacts with a stationary contact, for providing to the movable contactor a mass acting in a direction perpendicular to longitudinal axis of the contactor. A rolling motion is thereby caused to occur in the movable contactor upon contact closing motion so that the movable contact can be prevented from being fusion-bonded to the stationary contact.

Welding free relay contact device

A circuit breaker includes an arc shearing plate which is driven to thrust between a pair of contacts being separated so as to shear an arc formed therebetween for rapid arc extinction. Included in the circuit breaker is an over-current responsive actuating member which applies an impact to one of the contacts for rapid contact separation in response to a predetermined over-current condition such as caused by a short-circuit. The actuating member is also coupled to the arc shearing plate so as to control the thrusting movement of the arc shearing plate in synchronism with the rapid contact separation, whereby the timing of inserting the plate between the contacts can be easily controlled with respect to that of separating the contacts for achieving rapid arc extinction and providing a high arc voltage and current limiting action.

Current limiting circuit breaker with an arc shearing plate

An improved remotely controllable circuit breaker comprises a manually operable switching mechanism for opening and closing a single set of first and second contacts, a trip mechanism for opening the contacts upon occurrence of predetermined overload current conditions, and a remotely controllable switching mechanism for selectively opening and closing the contacts in response to a control signal remote from the breaker. The manually operable switching mechanism includes a movable contact arm carrying the first contact to be brought into and out of contacting engagement with the second contact by manipulation of a manual handle. The second contact is operatively connected to the remotely controllable switching mechanism to be driven thereby for movement between an operative position where the second contact is engageable with the first contact and an inoperative position where it is prohibited from being engaged with the first contact independently of the position of the first contact. Accordingly, the remotely controllable mechanism can be entirely isolated from the manually operable switching mechanism when the former is responsive to the remote control signal for bringing the second contact into its inoperative position.

Remotely controllable circuit breaker

A circuit breaker wherein one or two of circuit-breaking electric element blocks respectively including current source side and load side terminals, fixed and movable contactors, means for forcibly tripping the movable contactor away from the fixed contactor by operating at least electromagnetically responsive to an overcurrent and an arc suppressing means, and movably supporting the movable contactor at a stationary part of the tripping means is arranged in each of side spaces within a single housing, while a single mechanical contact operating mechanism for moving the movable contactor in each of the blocks between both positions of opening and closing contacts responsive to an external operating force and operatively connected with the tripping means of the blocks is contained in an intermediate space provided between the side spaces, in each of the latter of which the movable contactor of an elongated member is arranged with one end having the movable contact directed toward the source side terminal and with the other supported end directed toward the load side terminal, the arc suppressing means is arranged on the side of the source side terminal and the tripping means is arranged on the side of the load side terminal remote farthest from the arc suppressing means.

Circuit breaker

A circuit breaker having a plurality of breaker units, in each of which a movable contact of a movable contactor is separated from and engaged with a fixed contact of a fixed contactor from the exterior of a breaker housing by a manual contact opening and closing mechanism which is made operative to close the contacts normally with a tripping link retained as locked to the mechanism and inoperative with the link released from the mechanism by a tripping means responsive to an excess current. The tripping link is operatively interconnected to those in other units through a single coupling rod to cooperate simultaneously with the releasing by the tripping means in either one of the units.

A circuit breaker having an arc suppressing means disposed adjacent a contactor section and including a first arc running plate extended from a fixed contactor and a second arc running plate opposed to the first arc running plate. The distance between the both arc running plates on the side close to the contactor section is minimized so as not to cause any spatial short-circuiting to occur. At portions of the both arc running plates defining the minimized distance, magnetic arc driving force motivated by mutually oppositely directed arc currents flowing through the respective arc running plates is increased to a large extent, whereby arc shifting to deion grid of the arc suppressing means can be performed effectively quickly.

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Kadoma, Japan

Hideya Kondo