公开(公告)号：US4006322A

公开(公告)日：1977-02-01

申请号：US615688

申请日：1975-09-22

申请人： Paul M. Gallatin ,  Edward A. Halbach

发明人： Paul M. Gallatin ,  Edward A. Halbach

IPC分类号： H01H1/20 ,  H01H50/54 ,  H01H15/00 ,  H01H1/12 ,  H01H45/00

CPC分类号： H01H1/2083 ,  H01H1/2025 ,  H01H2001/001 ,  H01H50/545

摘要： An auxiliary interlock switch for a DC contactor has a reciprocable one-piece insulating contact carrier and plural bridging contacts interchangeably mounted thereon in alternative positions to provide different desired arrangements of normally open and normally closed contact sets with the stationary contact posts. The contact carrier has a return spring compressed within a spring-receiving cavity and elongated abutment-receiving apertures registering with opposite ends of said cavity through which an abutment member, that is releasably assembled to the contact carrier, may interchangeably freely extend to permit relative movement therebetween and against which one end of the return spring reacts to resiliently bias the contact carrier against reciprocation in one direction. The bridging contacts may be easily removed in the field and reassembled in desired contact configuration and are of resilient metal with bifurcated ends having "chisel" surfaces which provide high unit area contact pressure and plural points of engagement with each stationary contact post to thereby increase electrical reliability.

摘要翻译： 用于直流接触器的辅助联锁开关具有可往复运动的一体式绝缘接触载体和多个桥接触头，其可互换地安装在其上的替代位置，以提供与固定接触柱的常开和常闭触点组的不同期望布置。 接触载体具有在弹簧容纳腔内压缩的复位弹簧和与所述空腔的相对端配准的细长的邻接接收孔，其中可释放地组装到接触载体上的邻接构件可以互换地自由延伸以允许相对运动 在其间并且复位弹簧的一端反应使弹性偏压接触支架抵抗在一个方向上的往复运动。 桥接触点可以在现场容易地移除并且以期望的接触构造重新组装，并且是具有分叉端部的具有“凿”表面的弹性金属，其具有提供高单位面积接触压力和与每个固定接触柱的多个接合点，从而增加电 可靠性。

公开(公告)号：US3992599A

公开(公告)日：1976-11-16

申请号：US570214

申请日：1975-04-21

申请人： Edward A. Halbach

发明人： Edward A. Halbach

IPC分类号： H01H9/34 ,  H01H33/50

CPC分类号： H01H9/345

摘要： A circuit maker and breaker has a removable arc chute for interrupting an arc formed between the movable and stationary contacts. A pivotally movable interlock device is mounted in a cavity in the insulating base of the circuit maker and breaker in the region where the contact-carrying armature is movable into engagement with a magnetic yoke to close the movable contact of the circuit maker and breaker into engagement with the stationary contact. The pivotally movable interlock device includes a plug-like member which is movable into the path of movement of the contact-carrying armature to prevent closure of the armature if the arc chute is not properly positioned on or is absent from the circuit maker and breaker. The interlock device is actuated by a lever which is engaged by a surface on the arc chute as the arc chute is slid into proper position on the circuit maker and breaker, to thereby move the interlock device out of plugging or blocking relation to the armature. In the absence of the arc chute, or in case of improper positioning of the arc chute, the interlock device will move about its pivotal axis to interpose the interlocking plug member into the path of closing movement of the contact-carrying armature to prevent closing of the armature and thus to prevent closing of the movable contact relative to the stationary contact. In one embodiment of the invention, when the arc chute is absent or improperly positioned the interlocking plug member moves due to the force of gravity into the path of closing movement of the contact-carrying armature; while in another embodiment of the invention when the arc chute is absent or improperly positioned the stored energy of a biasing spring moves the interlocking plug member into the path of closing movement of the contact-carrying armature. In the second embodiment, the force of the spring member may be, but is not necessarily, supplemented by the force of gravity in moving the plug member into the path of closing movement of the contact-carrying armature.