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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:
Nov. 19, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 09, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean Maineult, Ceyzeriat, FR;
Raymond Pluveau, Macon, FR;
Assignee:
GEC Alsthom SA, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ; H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2001 / ; 2001 / ; 2001 / ; 2001 / ;
Abstract
A medium or high tension circuit breaker comprising a shell filled with a dielectric gas under pressure and containing: a fixed main contact, a moving main contact, a fixed arcing contact, and a moving arcing contact between which an arc is established during contact separation. The arc within the circuit breaker is split up into a large number of elementary arcs, with each elementary arc being established between two metal plates.