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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1987
Filed:
May. 21, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Meidensha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2001 / ;
Abstract
An inventive vacuum interrupter exhibits a high interruption performance. The interrupter includes a metal end plate constituting part of its vacuum envelope, and a coil disposed outside the vacuum envelope and near the metal end plate and generating an axial magnetic field parallel to a path of an arc in an arcing gap between a pair of separable contact within the vacuum envelope. The contact near the coil is made of a material superior in interruption performance to the end plate and is mounted with a clearance onto the end plate. The clearance is at least 2 mm and at most 30% of the diameter of the coil-side contact.