Socomec

Socomec S.a.

Jérôme Hertzog

Karine Coquil

Guillaume Oster

Arthur Haberer

An electrical breaking module includes a non-magnetic, electrically insulating casing housing, a fixed contact and a movable contact defining between them a breaking zone in which an electric arc extends at its origin when the electrical circuit is opened. A magnetic blow-out device is provided with at least one magnetic field source arranged in a breaking chamber, opposite the breaking zone to move and stretch the electric arc in a direction substantially perpendicular to the breaking plane towards the housing. The magnetic blow-out device also includes a non-magnetic, electrically insulating deflector, arranged in the breaking chamber to occupy most of the space between the breaking zone and the casing, so as to create at least one arc confinement zone, in which the electric arc when magnetically blown is deflected and constrained to promote its cooling and extinction.

Electrical breaking module equipped with a magnetic blow-out device and electrical breaking apparatus comprising such a module

An extinguishing chamber of magnetic blow-out type for a breaking device includes a field source, a magnetic carcass and a breaking region, in which an electric arc is liable to form when a breaking pole belonging to the breaking device is opened. The field source is arranged to generate a magnetic field intended to move the electric arc in order to stretch it and accelerate its cooling and its extinguishing. The carcass is arranged to channel the magnetic field. The carcass is stood up against the field source and closes in front thereof so as to create an air gap in the magnetic circuit formed by the field source and the carcass and to thus maximize the magnetic field that passes through the breaking region.

Extinguishing chamber of magnetic blow-out type for an electrical breaking device and electrical breaking device equipped with such a chamber

An electric arc breaker device comprises a contact zone in which there are present at least one stationary contact and at least one movable contact that is movable relative to the stationary contact. The contacts are capable of being put into contact with each other and of being separated from each other. An arcing horn is present facing the stationary contact, the height hof the arcing horn being greater than or equal to the height hof the stationary contact, and the arcing horn presenting a folded-back arc switching portion extending in a direction away from the stationary contact.

Electric arc-control device

An electric arc extinction chamber comprises a stack of electric arc splitter plates. The splitter plates define an inlet of the extinction chamber that is to be present facing electric contacts, and a back of the extinction chamber. At least one permanent magnet is present inside the extinction chamber in a central zone in the width direction of the extinction chamber and beside the back thereof. The magnet presents magnetization having a non-zero component along an axis extending between the inlet and the back of the extinction chamber.

Electric arc extinction chamber

An electrical switching device () which comprises at least one double breaking pole provided with two fixed contacts () that cooperate with two moving contacts () arranged so as to move in a breaking plane (P) and define, with every fixed contact, a breaking zone. The device comprises a permanent magnet () housed in an insulating holder arranged in the immediate environment, next to each breaking zone, symmetrically with respect to the breaking plane and oriented so as to generate a magnetic excitation vector parallel to the breaking plane (P) so that the induced electromagnetic force (FE) moves and stretches every electric arc (E, E), generated when opening the electrical circuit, in a direction perpendicular to the breaking plane (P), leading to the extinction of the electric arc regardless of the polarity of the magnet and/or of the current.

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Benfeld, France

Jérôme Hertzog