Bbc Brown, Boveri & Company, Limited

Thomas Gysel

Georg Koppl

Osvin Gaupp

A compressed-gas switch has a stationary and a movable switching part. At the movable switching part a nozzle of insulating material and an annular element consisting of insulating material are provided. The nozzle of insulating material and the annular element delimit an outer inlet duct and an annular element and a burn-off contact of the movable switching part delimit an inner inlet duct. The inlet ducts are connected to a compression space, filled with quenching gas, of a piston-cylinder device which can be actuated by the movable switching part. During a switching-off process the quenching gas, which is under high pressure in the compression space, is conducted by the inner and outer ducts, into the switching path. This switch is now to be developed further in such a way that both short-circuit currents at a distance and those at the terminals can be switched off with high reliability. This is achieved by making the minimum flow cross-section of the outer inlet duct smaller than the minimum flow cross-section of the inner inlet duct and by attaching at the narrowest point of the annular element a conductive ring with the clear width of the conductive ring smaller than the clear width of the annular element.

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