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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 1997
Filed:
May. 03, 1995
Mitsutaka Honma, Saitama-ken, JP;
Hiromichi Somei, Tokyo, JP;
Tadahiro Aihara, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuneyo Seki, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A method for manufacturing a vacuum interrupter including, a vacuum enclosure composed of an insulating tube sealed by metal flanges, a pair of electrodes in the vacuum enclosure which are able to make and break contact, and a pair of conducting shafts. The method includes the steps of preparing a fixed-side assembly composed of a fixed electrode, a fixed-side conducting shaft and a fixed-side flange jointed as one unit, preparing a movable-side subassembly composed of a movable electrode, a movable-side conducting shaft and a movable-side flange jointed as one unit, preparing an insulating tube subassembly composed of the insulating tube, preparing an assembly such that the movable-side, insulating tube, and fixed-side subassemblies are superimposed with first solders for gas-tight sealing being inserted between the movable-side and fixed-side subassemblies and end surfaces of the insulating tube subassembly and with a second solder for contact soldering being inserted between the contact and the electrode, and heating and evacuating the assembly in a vacuum furnace to evacuate inside the vacuum enclosure and to solder by the first solders and the second solder, thereby to obtain the vacuum interrupter. Whereby gas-tight soldering and soldering of the contact and the electrode are carried out simultaneously in the heating and evacuating step.