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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Pantrac Gmbh, Berlin, DE;
Inventors:
Manfred Faber, Bedburg, DE;
Bernd Kinast, Berlin, DE;
Wolfgang Vesper, Bonn, DE;
Dirk Wolter, Bonn, DE;
Assignee:
PANTRAC GMBH, Berlin, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 39/20 (2006.01); H01R 39/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 39/26 (2013.01); H01R 39/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Devices for discharging ground currents, more particularly in wind turbines, from electrical machines. The devices have a grounding ring mounted on a rotor of the electrical machine and a sliding contact connectable to ground and that is in contact with the grounding ring. The sliding contact element has a carbon brush with a bulk density between 1.1 and 1.4 g/cm, and the carbon brush contains a metal inclusions composed of silver, the silver proportion being between 1 and 8%.