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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1996
Bodo Bruhl, Kunten, CH;
Elias Julke, Wettingen, CH;
Kurt Kaltenegger, Lengnau, CH;
Lutz Niemeyer, Birr, CH;
Leopold Ritzer, Untersiggenthal, CH;
ABB Research Ltd., Zurich, CH;
Abstract
The stock contains an insulating-material matrix and a filler embedded in the matrix and is distinguished by a cellular structure. The predominant portion of the cells is filled with a material having arc-extinguishing properties or contains a material which, on exposure to an arc, forms arc-extinguishing gas. For the purpose of improving the making and breaking capacity, such a stock can advantageously be employed in a gas-blast circuit breaker in which arc-extinguishing gas is blown onto the switching arc. This involves the stock preferably being positioned at such points guiding the arc-extinguishing gas, at which the stock is exposed to the radiation of the arc and the thermal action of arc gases.