Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Kurt Muller

Heinz-Helmut Schramm

Manfred Rimmrott

Hans-Jurgen Lendt

Friedrich Richter

A gas-insulated, high-voltage apparatus wherein arcs can develop includes an encapsulation and at least one electrical conductor made of aluminum or an alloy thereof which is held in spaced relation to the encapsulation by insulators. A surface is arranged at the conductor at locations thereof subject to the greatest arc activity. The surface faces the encapsulation and is defined by an electrically conductive, arc-resistant material. An excessive stress and endangerment of the encapsulation because of arc action is thereby prevented.

Encapsulated, gas-insulated high-voltage apparatus having increased

The invention is directed to an arrangement for detecting deficient operational capability in a vacuum switching vessel. The arrangement can provide a signal if a fault occurs which affects the operability of the switching vessel. Instead of a signal, a protective device alone or together with the signal can also be caused to respond. The arrangement includes a body of a material which changes its physical characteristics substantially in a limited temperature interval and is attached in heat-conducting contact with a part of the vacuum switching vessel which has a temperature time constant as small as possible. This change of the characteristics of the body acts to initiate the above-mentioned signal or action of the protective device. The invention is suited particularly for application in switchgear with vacuum switching vessels.

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