Merlin Gerin

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Peter Malkin

Roger Bolongeat-Mobleu

Paul Glenat

Hugues Filiputti

Pierre LeClercq

Raymond V Bresson

Frederic Burnaz

Jean-Claude Faye

Jean-Pierre Kersusan

Victor Pennucci

An arc extinguishing chamber of a pole of an electrical circuit breaker having rotating arc device, the extinguishing chamber operating by self-extinguishing expansion, includes an elongated housing sealed off at both ends by end plates. Coaxially inside the housing there are disposed tubular contacts and a magnetic blowout coil. Along the length of the extinguishing zone defined by the separation distance between the contacts, there is located a sleeve positioned to leave a gap, which allows a top open area of the chamber and a bottom open area of the chamber, located on opposite sides of the extinguishing zone, to communicate. The gap allows the gases to flow between these two areas and fins arranged on a bottom portion of the chamber slow down rotation of the gases to direct them to the extinguishing zone.

Electrical circuit breaker with rotating arc and self-extinguishing

Inside a sealed enclosure (10) filled with sulphur hexafluoride there are housed main contacts (17,19) and an auxiliary circuit comprising two vacuum cartridges (20,21) electrically connected in series with each other and in parallel with the main contacts. The vacuum cartridges (20,21) are operated by a single mechanism to open and close simultaneously and serial connection enables the voltage withstand to be increased. The invention can be applied to medium or high voltage gas-insulated installations or substations.

Electrical circuit breaker with two vacuum cartridges in series

A vacuum cartridge of a hybrid circuit breaker comprises an end-plate having a groove for housing an annular coil external to the cartridge and electrically connected in series with the contacts of the cartridge. The coil is located facing the arcing contacts and is rigidly held by the groove.

Hybrid circuit breaker with axial blowout coil

A medium voltage circuit breaker, including first and second arcing contacts, the first arcing contact being longitudinally slidable with respect to the second arcing contact between open and closed positions, first and second main contact, the first main contact being movable with respect to the second main contact between open and closed positions, a sealed enclosure filled with a high dielectric strength gas and housing the first and second arcing and main contacts, and operating mechanism for closing the first and second arcing contacts before the first and second main contacts close and for opening the first and second arcing contacts after the first and second main contacts open. The operating mechanism is mechanically coupled to the first arcing and the first main contacts and comprises a compressible linkage coupled to the first arcing contact. The compressible linkage is compressible a predetermined distance against an urging force provided by a spring as the first and second arcing contacts close, thereby compressing the spring. The operating mechanism is adapted to reduce compression of the spring and reduce a contact force between the first and second arcing contacts after the main contacts have closed.

Medium voltage circuit breaker with operating mechanism providing

A vacuum electrical switch comprises a coil arranged in the metal base plate of the cartridge. The metal base plate constitutes a current input to the contact, this input having a radial conducting path and a path forming a spiral, electrically connected in parallel. In order to enhance the current flow in the spiral, which forms an axial magnetic blowout coil, the base plate has ripples or a slit which lengthen the radial conducting path.

Vacuum electrical switch

The circuit breaker comprises main contacts 26, 30 and a vacuum cartridge 38 in parallel which performs breaking, the assembly being contained in an enclosure 10 filled with sulphur hexafluoride. The cartridge is designed for dielectric withstand in this gas. The contacts of the cartridge 38 are made of high resistive material and a coil generates an axial magnetic field in the arcing zone.

Hybrid medium voltage circuit breaker

An inside of tubular contacts of a self-extinguishing expansion SF.sub.6 -gas circuit breaker including guiding ribs arranged to oppose any vortex-effect swirling gas flow between a first extinguishing chamber and a second expansion chamber. The presence of these ribs improves the dielectric withstand of the circuit breaker, and prevents any arc restriking inside the contacts.

Electrical circuit breaker with self-extinguishing expansion and

A rotating arc circuit breaker comprising a pair of separable arcing contacts, a coil to set the arc in rotation, and an annular migration electrode. Guiding fins are arranged in the extinguishing chamber to slow down the rotation of the gas in a first peripheral zone, so as to generate a differential speed between the arc and the gas favoring the heat exchange in the second zone close to the breaking gap.

Rotating arc circuit breaker with centrifugal extinguishing gas effect

A puffer SF6 circuit breaker comprises a pair of separable contacts with formation of a breaking gap, a piston-cylinder assembly to compress the gas when the movable contact is actuated to the open position, and a puffer nozzle designed to channel the gas outflow to the breaking gap so as to cool the arc by forced convection. The nozzle is totally or partially made of transparent or translucent insulating material to allow a part of the energy to be removed by radiation.

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St. Ismier, France

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