Disconnect Switch Patents (Class 218/45)
  • Patent number: 11309693
    Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear includes a main circuit conductor forming a bus line, a tank having a tubular main body in which the main circuit conductor forming the bus line is provided at its center, and a grounding-switch tank that is a branch pipe connected to the main body, in which a movable contact forming a branch line that branches from the main circuit conductor forming the bus line is provided, where a tubular surface of the main body is spherical, and has an opening that allows the movable contact to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Fujioka, Yasuhiro Tsukao
  • Patent number: 9978539
    Abstract: An extractor for at least partially extracting a bushing central conductor from a bushing insulator. The extractor comprises a supporting member, a movable member and lifting means. The supporting member is configured to be rigidly secured to the bushing insulator. The movable member is configured to be rigidly secured to the bushing central conductor. The lifting means are configured to move the movable member along the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventor: James E. Main
  • Patent number: 9633806
    Abstract: A switching configuration includes a first switching contact set having a rated current contact piece and an arcing contact piece. The arcing contact piece and the rated current contact piece of the first switching contact set are movable relative to one another through a transmission mechanism. The arcing contact piece is supported by a support element on a contact carrier of the rated current contact piece. The transmission mechanism has a transmission mechanism chassis which is supported, particularly directly, on the contact carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Krehnke, Friedrich Loebner
  • Patent number: 9349501
    Abstract: A gas insulated switchgear includes a high-voltage conductor installed inside a ground tank filled with an insulation gas and the high-voltage conductor is supported on an insulation spacer and thereby fixed to the ground tank. The gas insulator switchgear is configured in such a manner that an insulation portion of the insulation spacer in contact with the insulation gas is covered with a cover film formed by hardening powder of any of thermoplastic resin, glass, cellulose, and polymer resin made of carbon and hydrogen having a particle size of 100 ?m or less with epoxy resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Miyamoto, Yuko Sawada, Yukio Ozaki, Hitoshi Sadakuni, Shohei Sasayama, Kazuki Kubo, Tatsuya Okawa
  • Patent number: 9111697
    Abstract: Each outermost part of fixed-side connection conductors, fixed-side fixed contacts, movable-side fixed contacts, and movable-side connection conductors are placed outside of an outermost diameter of a fixed-side conductor and a movable-side conductor, as viewed from an axis line of the fixed-side conductor and the movable-side conductor as a center. This arrangement provides a power switchgear that can diminish mutual effects of currents among conduction parts to suppress decrease in a current-carrying capacity for each of the conduction parts and to increase a current-carrying capacity for a total of the conduction parts, without increasing the size of the switchgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Otani, Toru Yamashita, Daisuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8445803
    Abstract: An electrical switching device and method are disclosed. The electrical switching device can include two movable contacts. During opening of the switching device, the two movable contacts move in a first direction until one of the movable contacts engages a blocking member. The other movable contact continues in the first direction, effecting opening of the switching device. In a particular implementation, the movable contact that engages the blocking member “bounces” in a second direction after contacting the blocking member. This causes the contacts of the switching device to be separated very quickly, reducing electrical arcing during opening of the switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Cavailles
  • Patent number: 8426758
    Abstract: A medium voltage switch unit comprising an interruption unit and a disconnection unit, wherein the interruption unit comprises a first and a second interruption contact and a first drive unit which moves one of said interruption contacts between a first position in which they are in electrical connection and a second position in which they are spaced apart. The disconnection unit comprises a first and a second fixed disconnection contacts couplable and uncouplable with respective first and second movable disconnection contacts mounted on the interruption unit and electrically connected to the first interruption contact. The interruption unit is mechanically supported by a first fixed conductor and the second interruption contact is electrically connected to said first fixed conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Alessandro Bonfanti, Davide Corti
  • Patent number: 8389886
    Abstract: An electrical breaker device, in particular a high-voltage circuit breaker, and a method for improved quenching gas cooling are disclosed. Cold gas is stored intermediately in the exhaust region, and a first partial gas flow is guided to bypass the intermediately stored cold gas and to flow off into the breaker chamber, the intermediately stored cold gas being forcibly displaced out of the exhaust region with the aid of a second partial gas flow and being mixed with the first partial gas flow before flowing off into the breaker chamber housing. Exemplary embodiments relate, inter alia, to the design of the intermediate storage volume for the cold gas and to auxiliary means for precooling the hot quenching gas. Advantages are, inter alia, improved quenching gas cooling, an increased circuit breaker rating and/or a more compact breaker design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Andreas Dahlquist, Christian Franck, Martin Kriegel, Martin Seeger, Henrik Nordborg
  • Patent number: 8000087
    Abstract: Each integral unit is structured by arranging partial units (I), (II), and (Ill) side by side, while line-side devices are branched from positions between the partial units adjacent to each other. Each of the partial units is structured by connecting a current transformer and a disconnector in sequence to each of upper and lower outlets horizontally drawn out from a lateral face of a vertical-type circuit breaker in the same direction. Any two partial units positioned adjacent to each other are connected in series by connecting the disconnectors included therein with a connection bus. The line-side devices are positioned to oppose the circuit breakers while the disconnectors are interposed therebetween. The switchgear includes a plurality of integral units. Two ends of each of the integral units are respectively connected to two main buses that are provided in an upper position and a lower position while the disconnectors are interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Fujita, Takuya Otsuka, Hitoshi Sadakuni
  • Patent number: 7764486
    Abstract: A gas-insulated power apparatus comprising a vertically arranged gas-insulated circuit breaker included in a vertically arranged gas-insulated main tank, a first gas-insulated branch pipe connected to one side of an upper portion of the gas-insulated main tank substantially orthogonal to a direction of extending the gas-insulated main tank and leading out a feeder from a movable side of the gas-insulated circuit breaker, and a second and a third gas-insulated branch pipes which are respectively connected to both sides in a peripheral direction of a lower portion of the gas-insulated main tank substantially orthogonal to the direction of extending the gas-insulated main tank, one of which connects a fixed side of the gas-insulated circuit breaker to one gas-insulated Y bus of gas-insulated double buses and other of which connects the fixed side of the gas-insulated circuit breaker to other gas-insulated X bus of the gas-insulated double buses, respectively, by which a gas-insulated power apparatus having a str
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Otsuka, Hitoshi Sadakuni, Daisuke Fujita
  • Patent number: 7746624
    Abstract: A current transformer cabinet is disclosed having an electrical meter coupled to current transformers. One or more disconnect switches arranged between the source conductors and the load conductors. The disconnect switches include a link member that allows the disconnecting of electrical service from the load conductors by rotation of the link from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.
    Inventors: James Rispoli, John A. Gaffney
  • Patent number: 7579570
    Abstract: A high-voltage outdoor bushing configuration includes an electrically insulating casing and an electrically conductive housing. An isolating gap is located inside the electrically conductive housing. The isolating gap interrupts a phase conductor into first and second sections. A switching piece or an element of a multi-part switching piece can be moved at an angle relative to an axis along which the phase conductor extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Bauch, Manfred Meinherz, Eckard Wagner
  • Patent number: 7041928
    Abstract: An interrupter unit (1) for a high-voltage power switch supported by a supporting element (5,6) radially surrounding the interrupter element (1) and consisting of two sections (5a, 5b, 6a, 6b). The second section (5b, 6b) is radially enlarged in relation to the first section (5a,6a). A discharge opening (10,11) for a quenching gas arising during a switching process is disposed between the two sections (5a, 5b, 6a, 6b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andrzej Nowakowski
  • Patent number: 7019228
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling an electrical switching module which can be displaced between an entry position and an exit position. The switching module comprises switching contacts of vacuum switching tubes; an isolating element which can be also be displaced in the switching module and comprises isolating contacts which can be connected to, and disconnected from, corresponding mating contacts inside an enclosed switchboard section, as required; and connector contacts and mating connector contacts in the low voltage range. The switching contacts of the vacuum switching tubes support the closing and opening processes, under the control influence of a closing spring which can be influenced by a closing catch (EK) and an opening spring which can be influenced by an opening catch, and prominent functional positions of the isolating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Nils Anger, Karsten Fleck, Ralph Löser, Dietrich Rudolph, Holger Schumann, Jay Schwartz
  • Patent number: 6727454
    Abstract: A gas-insulated switch gear has a plurality of bay units having bus ducts each containing a three-phase bus and connected by bellows expansion joints. When the bay unit needs to be inspected for maintenance, the bellows expansion joints are compressed, and only the bay unit can be pulled out of the gas-insulated switchgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Okabe, Hitoshi Yamada, Toshihisa Miyamoto, Isamu Ozawa
  • Patent number: 6683267
    Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear device for high- and medium-voltage applications, comprising an enclosure which contains a disconnection unit which is electrically connected to a first electric terminal and is arranged in the enclosure in a substantially central position, and a first interruption unit and a second interruption unit which can be connected electrically to the disconnection unit and, respectively, to a second electric terminal and a third electric terminal, the first and second interruption units being arranged mutually opposite with respect to the disconnection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Costante Piazza, Giuliano Guerra
  • Patent number: 6678151
    Abstract: A module comprising: a supporting frame, having a fixed and a movable part; first actuator for wiring the movable part; first and second sets of three insulating posts, arranged on the fixed part along two corresponding rows; first and second disconnection contacts being respectively associated with the insulating posts and being electrically connectable to the module, to corresponding electric terminals. The module comprises a set of three multifunctional interruption assemblies, each of which comprises: a supporting insulator, on the movable part and connected in an elbow-shaped configuration to a containment insulator which contains an interruption unit having a fixed movable contact which is operatively connected to second actuation means; third and fourth disconnection contacts, which are electrically connected to the interruption unit and are connected to the first and second disconnection contacts, respectively. Further, the first and/or second actuator comprises a motor with position control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventor: Piazza Costante
  • Patent number: 6664493
    Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear of an 1½ CB system, in which three circuit breakers are electrically connected in series between a pair of buses and a connecting line for supplying and receiving electric power is led out from between the circuit breakers, is characterized in that new connecting lines for supplying and receiving electric power are led out from the main buses through disconnecting switches to a diameter which is an end portion of the gas-insulated switchgear. A leading out side of the connecting lines is outside the main bus, and an installation area of the gas-insulated switch gear is not increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamada, Mamoru Okabe, Toshihisa Miyamoto, Isamu Ozawa, Chikara Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 6664494
    Abstract: A current collector, in which contact portions are free from dissolved loss even both fixed and moving contacts slidingly contact with each other, and durability as well as a current-carrying perfomance is improved, including a container, which is filled with an insulating arc-extinguishing medium and in which a cylindrical-shaped fixed contact and an torus-shaped contact disposed concentrically with the fixed contact and adapted to come into fitting contact with the fixed contact to carry current are received, and a torus-shaped current collecting member formed from a conductive material and provided on a contact portion of the torus-shaped contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Inc.
    Inventors: Junzo Kida, Makoto Hirose, Tomoyuki Andou
  • Patent number: 6399911
    Abstract: A gas insulated switchgear of the present invention, a plurality of disconnect switches are provided on a line connecting a bus line to a circuit-breaker in such a manner as to be arranged in both a main bus unit, a breaker unit or in both a first and second insulating gas sections. Accordingly, when an inconvenience occurs in the gas insulated switchgear apparatus and the exchange work of a unit is required, it is possible to exchange the inconvenient damaged unit only by turning the circuit including the inconvenient damaged unit into power supply interruption, that is, without turning a normal circuit unit into power supply interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Tsuzura, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Junzo Kida, Minoru Yabuki, Yasuhito Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6177643
    Abstract: In a high-voltage circuit-breaker having arcing contact pieces that are movable relatively to each other, and an axially movable insulating nozzle, provision is made for an axially displaceable field electrode on the side lying opposite the drive. Used as an auxiliary drive for the field electrode is a first coupling shank which is connected to the axially movable insulating nozzle and which acts upon a gearing composed of a swivelling lever with a control pin a connecting link guide and a second coupling shank connected to the control pin and to the field electrode. For additionally driving the second arcing contact piece surrounded by the field electrode, the first coupling shank, with the assistance of a journal, also acts upon a deflection gear composed of a two-armed lever, having a fork-like design at one end for the coulisse-type guidance of the journal, and a pendulum element at the other end of the lever coupled to the second arcing contact piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengeselleschaft
    Inventors: Heiner Marin, Volker Lehmann, Hold Dienemann
  • Patent number: 6049050
    Abstract: Within an envelope, the medium or high voltage circuit breaker includes first and second main contacts that are movable relative to each other along a common axis, first and second arcing contacts that are movable along the common axis, the first arcing contact being secured to the first main contact, and a device for transmitting displacement to the second arcing contact in a direction opposite to the displacement of the first main contact and the first arcing contact. The device includes two wheels mounted in fixed positions in the circuit breaker and in alignment on the common axis, and a transmission belt looped around the two wheels, thereby enabling the second arcing contact to be displaced relative to the first contacts by means that occupy little space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Alsthom T & D SA
    Inventor: Renaud David
  • Patent number: 5872346
    Abstract: A high-voltage metal-cladded switchgear having two busbars (1, 2) and a power switch (4) with a first connected to terminals (12, 13) of two isolating switches (10, 11). The power switch has a contact point (17) that can be removed from the enclosure (3) together with the power switch (4) and has at least two contact devices for connection to the terminals (12, 13) of the isolating switches (10, 11). No assembly work is necessary inside the enclosure (3). The internal conductors are connected by inserting the power switch (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Meinherz, Thomas Kelch
  • Patent number: 5841087
    Abstract: The isolating switch (1) contains an isolating switch housing (2) and at least two switching points (18, 19, 20) which are arranged in the isolating switch housing (2), are of axially symmetrical design, and each have one fixed switching element (7, 8, 9) and one switching element (15, 16, 17) which can move along the switching point axis (21, 22, 23). A drive shaft (11) leads into the isolating switch housing (2). From this drive shaft (11), power is transmitted via a gearbox (25) to the movable switching element (15, 16, 17). The gearbox (25) has for each switching point (18, 19, 20) a control cam (26, 27, 28) which is fixedly connected to the movable switching element (15, 16, 17), is aligned transversely with respect to the shaft axis (11) and is displaceable. It also contains a lever (29, . . . 34; 47) which is attached to the drive shaft (11) and interacts with the control cam (26, 27, 28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Dieter Fuchsle, Markus Zbinden
  • Patent number: 5721412
    Abstract: A disconnector for a metal encapsulated, gas insulated high voltage switchgear includes a housing with at least a first and a second axis which intersect at a first angle. The disconnector also includes two contact carriers that are arranged on the first axis and are positioned between to contact carriers at an isolating distance by securing elements. The first axis and the second axis each form an axis of symmetry of the housing. The housing has four openings which are provided with flanges and which have the same diameter and centers located on one of the first and second axes, and are arranged at the same distance from the intersection point of the first and second axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Herbert Schifko, Sven Forss, Jadran Kostovic, Piero Tecchio
  • Patent number: 5696364
    Abstract: A high voltage open-air switch has a movable disconnect switch blade which contains a circuit interrupter therein having interrupter contacts in series with the open air disconnect switch contacts. The circuit interrupter has a lower BIL rating than the switch. An operating mechanism causes the independent operation of the interrupter and disconnect switch such that there is a high speed opening of the interrupter contacts, followed by the low speed opening of the disconnect switch contacts, and a slow speed closing of the disconnect switch contacts followed by the high speed closing of the interrupter contacts. The switch can be adapted to numerous switch configurations and permits substantial savings in space by the reduced mounting space requirements for the interrupter assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: ABB Power T&D Company Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Stroud, Tomas Otterberg
  • Patent number: 5625179
    Abstract: An isolator for a metal-encapsulated, gas-insulated high-voltage switching installation includes two contact supports and an enclosure. The enclosure has a longitudinal axis and is filled with insulating gas. The two contact supports are arranged in the enclosure. Each of the contact supports has a surface. A surface of a first one of the contact supports and a surface of the second one of the contact supports oppose each other to form opposing surfaces and define a separation that forms an isolating gap between the opposing surfaces. The isolator further includes a contact arrangement. The contact arrangement is movable along an operating axis between a connected state and a disconnected state. The contact arrangement electrically conductively shorts the separation when the contact arrangement is in the connected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Daniel Bleiker, Sven Forss, Herbert Schifko