Patents by Inventor Raphaël Kissling

Raphaël Kissling has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Electromechanical circuit breaker and method of breaking the current in said electromechanical circuit breaker
    Patent number: 7518477
    Abstract: The electromechanical circuit breaker is intended to establish and break the current in a main circuit (3, 4) and comprises a fixed contact element (5) and a moving contact element (6) which in a first position are in electrical contact with each other for carrying the current of the main circuit (3, 4). Said moving contact element (6) is adapted to be displaced to a second position in which it is separated from the fixed contact element (5) so that the current in the main circuit is cut off. The circuit breaker is provided with a blow-out device (2) comprising a magnetising coil (8) traversed by a magnetising current for producing a magnetic field (26) adapted to drive an arc generated by the separation of said two contact elements (5, 6) into an arc extinction means. The blow-out device (2) comprises electrodes (12) electrically connected to the magnetising coil (8) and adapted to cooperate with said arc in such a manner that the latter generates said magnetising current in the magnetising coil (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Secheron S.A.
    Inventors: Serge Martin, Henri Duffour, Raphaël Kissling, Bjorn Fischer
  • Electromechanical Circuit Breaker and Method of Breaking the Current in Said Electromechanical Circuit Breaker
    Publication number: 20080197113
    Abstract: The electromechanical circuit breaker is intended to establish and break the current in a main circuit (3, 4) and comprises a fixed contact element (5) and a moving contact element (6) which in a first position are in electrical contact with each other for carrying the current of the main circuit (3, 4). Said moving contact element (6) is adapted to be displaced to a second position in which it is separated from the fixed contact element (5) so that the current in the main circuit is cut off. The circuit breaker is provided with a blow-out device (2) comprising a magnetising coil (8) traversed by a magnetising current for producing a magnetic field (26) adapted to drive an arc generated by the separation of said two contact elements (5, 6) into an arc extinction means. The blow-out device (2) comprises electrodes (12) electrically connected to the magnetising coil (8) and adapted to cooperate with said arc in such a manner that the latter generates said magnetising current in the magnetising coil (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: SECHERON SA
    Inventors: Serge Martin, Henri Duffour, Raphael Kissling, Bjorn Fischer