Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kuniaki Nakashima

Hiroyuki Hama

Hiroshi Doi

Yasuhiro Maeda

Hirohide Aoki

Shoji Tada

Naoyuki Kajita

Toshiko Sugio

Yoshikatsu Honda

A failure determining apparatus for a gas-insulated electrical appliance where the appliance is a cylindrical metal container with a charged conductor, insulating gas, and a plurality of insulating spaces inside for supporting the conductor and partitioning the container. The failure determining apparatus has a high-speed developing sensor which detects a high-speed phenomenon caused by a failure within the gas sections; a first failure determining circuit which determines the presence of a failure from an output of the high-speed developing sensor; a low-speed developing sensor which detects a low-speed phenomenon caused by a failure within the gas sections; a second failure determining circuit which determines the presence of a failure from an output of the low-speed developing sensor; and an arithmetic control circuit which identifies a gas section of the metal container in which a failure occurs from an output of the first and second failure determining circuits.

Failure determining apparatus of gas-insulated electrical appliance

A circuit breaker for opening and closing contacts disposed on each phase of a multiphase electric power line has a photo-diode array and a light emitting diode array disposed on opposite sides of a driving rod of a driving mechanism, with a light passing aperture provided in the driving rod. When the aperture in the rod crosses the respective light paths between the photo-diodes and the corresponding light emitting diodes, the photo-diodes issue electric output signals corresponding to movement of the driving rod. By processing these output signals, any abnormal breaking of the breaker contacts among the phases is detected.

Device for producing even closing of a circuit breaker

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Tokyo, Japan

Kuniaki Nakashima