Abstract: A gas insulated switching apparatus includes a transformer line unit and a power transmission and reception line unit adjacent to each other. The power transmission and reception line unit includes two cable heads. The cable heads are arranged at an interval between units in an extension direction in which a bus-bar extends, and the cable head is disposed in a space behind the transformer line unit.

Abstract: A control panel for medium voltage or high voltage has a circuit breaker housing and a cable connector housing which can be connected in a current conducting manner via an external plug-in connection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to prohibiting water ingress in enclosures designed to protect electronics or other stored objects from damage that would occur if the protected stored objects were submerged in water or other liquids. More particularly the present invention, a water ingress prevention enclosure eliminates the need for watertight doors and other sealing gaskets by utilizing an opening in the lowest portion of the enclosure to allow rising water to pressurize the ambient gas trapped in the enclosure thus forming a pressurized chamber to which liquid cannot rise. Embodiments of the invention include a system, apparatus, method and computer implemented code to enable monitoring and storage of one or more stored objects in a liquid-free environment.

Abstract: A switchgear assembly module has a housing, which forms a common gas space for accommodating an insulating gas for the switchgear assembly module. The switchgear assembly module includes a busbar conductor arrangement having three busbar conductor sections, which are accommodated in the common gas space, an outgoing conductor connection group with three outgoing conductor openings and with three outgoing conductor sections, which extend from within the housing towards a respective one of the outgoing conductor openings, and three switch disconnectors, which each connect a respective one of the busbar conductor sections to a respective one of the outgoing conductor sections via a disconnection point. The disconnection point of a first one of the switch disconnectors is arranged on a first side of an outgoing normal plane and the disconnection point of a second one of the switch disconnectors is arranged on a second side of the outgoing normal plane.

Abstract: A method and system for a cutout cover are provided. The cutout cover system includes a hollow head portion including a throat portion including an opening oriented toward a cutout when installed on the cutout and a tab portion extending from the hollow head portion in a first direction, the tab portion including a slit extending through the tab portion to the hollow head portion and dividing the tab portion into two joinable halves. The cutout cover also includes a nose portion extending from the hollow head portion in a second direction, the second direction opposite the first direction, the nose portion including a diverging cross-section along the nose portion from a distal end of the nose portion towards the head portion, the nose portion including a substantially smooth linear surface.

Abstract: A gas insulated switchgear includes: a center conductor that is arranged to extend horizontally in a tank; a cylindrical member that is arranged in the tank to surround a center conductor, and formed by curving a metal plate-like member into a cylindrical shape and then joining circumferentially opposed both ends of the plate-like member by welding to form a welding portion, the welding portion being located on a lower side of the cylindrical member; and a current transformer for instruments, through which the cylindrical member is inserted, the current transformer being supported by the cylindrical member, and being arranged to surround the center conductor. The welding portion includes a metal spacer sandwiched between the circumferentially opposed both ends of the plate-like member, and the spacer and the ends are welded to each other.

Abstract: A converter building including at least one room having a solid room wall enclosing an interior space and an electrical active part contained in the interior space, the room wall having at least one opening, which is designed such that it allows a human to enter the interior space. The opening is sealable, the room wall encloses the interior space in a gas-tight manner when the opening is sealed, and the interior space contains a dielectric insulation medium including a dielectric insulation component other than air.

Abstract: A filter for an HVDC system. The filter includes a capacitor and a reactor arranged in an indoor location having a first space for erecting filter components. The first space includes a high voltage area and a low voltage area defining a first electric potential direction.

Abstract: The vacuum insulated switchgear includes: a housing enclosing a control compartment, a switch compartment, and a busbar compartment, each of the three compartments being partitioned by a metallic earthing plate; a first busbar and second busbar extended from an adjacent panel, in the busbar compartment; and a first busbar-connecting bushing and second busbar-connecting bushing making the first and second busbars connectible/disconnectible; a double-breaking three position vacuum switch, two sets of earthing switches, the first busbar-connecting bushing, and the second busbar-connecting bushing being integrally molded to form a switch provided on an electrical phase-by phase basis independently, wherein the switches for three phases are arranged in order side by side in the housing.

Abstract: It is an object to provide gas-insulated switchgear that occupies less installation space, in which the number of bellows to be used can be reduced, and that can minimize a work range in disassembling at addition or accident, and in reassembling. In double-bus gas-insulated switchgear in which a bus-side device is arranged above a breaker to reduce installation space to be occupied, a bellows is arranged between bus-side devices arranged vertically to each other, and under a support frame of the breaker, another support frame that can be separated therefrom is arranged, thereby enabling disassembling of a lower bus-side device alone.

Abstract: The object is to provide ring-bus-type gas insulated switchgear that ensures maintenance and inspection performance, reduces the installation space, and further reduces costs. Each of a plurality of breaker units is formed by connecting an instrument current transformer and a disconnector to each of the upper and lower branch ports drawn horizontally from the side surface of a vertical breaker in the same direction, and the breaker units are arranged in parallel. Adjacent disconnectors are connected to each other by a connection bus, so that the bus route runs alternately at upper and lower levels. Furthermore, the breaker units positioned at the two ends are connected linearly to each other by a communication bus. In addition, the line-side devices are arranged to face the corresponding breaker units across the disconnectors.

Abstract: A fluid-insulated electrical apparatus includes a grounded tank which is an airtight metal vessel filled with an insulating fluid. A conductor to which a high voltage is applied is disposed in the grounded tank. A metal plate that is press-processed to have an inclined portion and a groove between adjacent head top portions is fixed to and electrically connected to an inner wall of the grounded tank.

Abstract: A wildlife guard assembly for use with an electrical insulator body includes first and second guard members and an actuator member. The first and second guard members define a seat to receive the insulator body and are connected to one another to permit relative movement between an open position. The first and second guard members define a sideward opening to laterally receive the insulator body into the seat, and a closed position, wherein the first and second guard members at least partially encircle the insulator body to capture the insulator body in the seat. The actuator member is configured to be inserted between the first and second guard members in the open position and, when forcibly displaced radially to an installed position, to force the first and second guard members to move from the open position to the closed position.

Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear allowing reduction in layout dimension in a direction of axis lines of circuit breakers and also reduction in layout dimension in a direction orthogonal to the direction of the axis lines of the circuit breakers, thereby allowing reduction in installation area. Between two main buses disposed in parallel, first, second and third circuit breakers are disposed as being aligned so that each axis line is orthogonal to a direction of axis lines of the main buses. A branch line drawn from a portion between the first and second circuit breakers and a branch line drawn from a portion between the second and third circuit breakers are connected to respective cable heads. The centers of the cable heads are configured so as to be positioned on a straight line orthogonal to the direction of the axis lines of the main buses.

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.

Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear is provided, which can be made smaller and causes less increase in length in the circuit direction, by means of an improvement to the layout configuration of the operating rod of a bus-use grounding switch. Operating rods of bus-use grounding switches are vertically disposed so as to be substantially perpendicular to the buses, and operating devices are disposed along an extension of the operating rods, respectively. Bus-use voltage transformers are horizontally disposed in such a manner that they vertically overlap each other, and are respectively connected in the circuit breaker direction of the buses.

Abstract: A power transmission/reception line circuit breaker includes a vertical-type first circuit breaker tank and a plurality of branch lead-out ports arranged at an interval H. A busbar-side device is connected to each branch lead-out port other than an uppermost branch lead-out port to which a line-side device is connected and a busbar. A busbar link line circuit breaker includes a vertical-type second circuit breaker tank having a length shorter than that of the first circuit breaker tank by the interval H and a plurality of branch lead-out ports arranged at the interval H. A busbar-side device is connected to each of the branch lead-out ports.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gas-insulated electric apparatus which includes: a vertically-arranged gas insulation main tank; a first gas insulation branch pipe connected to and making right angle with the gas insulation main tank; a second gas insulation branch pipe connected to and making right angle with the gas insulation main tank; a breaker manipulator which is arranged on an upper side of the main tank, a feeder-side current transformer which is incorporated in the first gas insulation branch pipe; a voltage transformer arranged on the first gas insulation branch pipe; and an arrestor arranged on the first gas insulation branch pipe and connected with the feeder.

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

Abstract: A gas insulated switchgear has: circuit breakers, circuit breaker vessels, first disconnector and maintenance earthning switches connected to first bus bars connected to circuit breaker vessels and also to main bus bars, second disconnector and maintenance earthning switches connected to second bus bars connected to the circuit breaker vessels, circuit breaker operating mechanisms, first and second disconnector and maintenance earthning switch operating mechanisms, and first and second disconnector and maintenance earthning switch operation links for linking the disconnector and maintenance earthning switches and the operating mechanisms for three phases. The second disconnector and maintenance earthning switch operation links are arranged so as to pass through inter-phases of the first bus bars and the operating panels of the circuit breaker operating mechanism and the first and second disconnector and maintenance earthning switch operating mechanisms of each phase are arranged on a common flat plane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an insulated barrier preventing wildlife from simultaneously contacting an electrically energized and an electrically grounded surface, includes electrically insulated radially and axially extending members forming an hexagonal web having a first hexagonal rib that defines an opening offset from the geometric center of the barrier; and an insertion slot extending from an outer portion of said barrier to the offset opening for movement of said barrier onto electrical equipment utilizing and installation grip area for engagement with a gripping portion of an installation tool.

Abstract: Fluid drainage slopes are formed at a lower frame part constituting a housing that is provided below circuit board housed inside housing. Drainage ports are also formed at a lowermost part of fluid drainage slope in lower frame part. Thus, fluid that forms in the housing flows down from circuit board and onto fluid drainage slopes to be guided downward from fluid drainage slope to reach drainage ports and be discharged to outside housing. It is thus possible to prevent or suppress the occurrence of short circuits in a circuit board caused by fluid generated and/or accumulated inside the housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a distribution cabinet which is usually set up outdoors and accommodates the technical, for example electrical or optical, distribution installations for, for example, weak-current systems, for example telephone systems, with associated power-supply devices and cable-terminal/connection devices for a certain area, and also to a method for exchanging, in particular increasing the size of, the body of a distribution cabinet, the exchange of which body is unproblematical and with which method the distribution cabinet remains at the original location and consequently no new installation approval or construction approval is necessary.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical substation. The inventive substation is characterised in that it consists of a special ring-type electrical configuration, known as a network ring, comprising SF6-insulated armoured modules M by way of a high-voltage switchgear. According to the invention, the modules are disposed such as to form longitudinally-linked squares, with a segregated phase arrangement. Owing to the ring configuration A, the use of armoured modules M and the segregated phase arrangement, it is possible to produce standardised base elements which are tested before being moved to the site of the substation in order to be connected to other elements and/or existing equipment with the same configuration or another standard configuration. In this way, a substation can be mounted and enlarged without the need for discharges or service interruptions and with a minimum loss of time in terms of mounting, repair and enlarging operations.

Abstract: For simple structure and easy manufacture, module tanks have a common standardized size so that the same tank is applicable even when the components to be accommodated are changed. The basic structure of the module is arranged so that all of the interrupter, the disconnector with the grounding switch, the bus bar bushing, the cable connecting bushing and the gas section spacer can be mounted, and necessary main circuit components depending upon the circuit to be used are left behind and unnecessary main circuit components are short-circuited by a short-circuiting conductor, and that the tank opening portions are either left un-worked during manufacture or closed by a cover. The bus bar bushings and the cable connecting bushings are attached at the rear face of the tank and the gas section spacer is disposed on the top or bottom face of the tank. A lightning arrester in lieu of interrupter may be accommodated within an insulating cylinder housing the main circuit of the interrupter.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a current transformer (1?) for enclosed, gas-insulated high-voltage switchgear (10). According to the invention, a current transformer (1?) is characterized in that a removable installation flange (12, 12?) is provided on a fill opening (3c) of the core carrier (11) for one-piece current transformer cores (2). Among other things, embodiments pertain to: a removable installation flange (12, 12?) in the form of a two-part clamping flange (12) or in the form of a one-piece rotary flange (12?) that is screwed on the fill opening (3c) similar to a bayonet catch. Among other things, the attained advantages are: radially increased installation space for one-piece current transformer cores (2); reduced diameter (d) for one-piece current transformer cores (2) and reduced structural volume of the current transformer casing (11a).

Abstract: Disclosed is a gas-insulated switchgear device, in which a space for dismantlement and inspection work which facilitates the dismantlement and inspection work of circuit breakers at the time of the occurrence of accidents of the circuit breakers are provided and an installation area for the gas-insulated switchgear device can be reduced. The gas-insulated switchgear device includes a pair of spaced apart main bus lines, three circuit breakers connected between the main bus lines, a common space for dismantlement and inspection work provided between two of the three circuit breakers, and branch bus lines provided above the common dismantlement and inspection work space using the common dismantlement and inspection work space and disposed in such a manner that insulatedly leading-out directions of the branch bus lines cross in order to balance voltage.

Abstract: The switchgear assembly has a polyphase design and has a gas-filled, modular encapsulation for each phase. Provided as the modules are at least one busbar, which is guided predominantly horizontally, a circuit breaker and two combined disconnecting-earthing switches having a disconnection and grounding function. A first one of the combined disconnecting-earthing switches supports a section of the busbar and is connected between the busbar and a first current terminal of the circuit breaker. The second combined disconnecting-earthing switch is connected between an outgoing feeder or a further busbar of the assembly and the second current terminal of the circuit breaker. The combined disconnecting-earthing switches are aligned such that two drive apparatuses, which are provided for their actuation, point in the same, predominantly horizontal direction.

Abstract: The high-voltage metal-clad substation element comprises at least one circuit-breaker connected electrically and mechanically to at least one set of busbars (3, 4) extending along an axis (D) that extends transversely to the longitudinal axis (AX) of the circuit-breaker. The metal case (1) is fixed to the ground via a hinge which allows the case to tilt slightly when said set of busbars (3, 4) expands along said transverse axis (D). This configuration makes it possible to omit or to reduce the use of axial bellows on the set of busbars, thereby reducing the cost of manufacturing the metal-clad substation. Advantageously, in association with the hinge, the metal case is designed to have some flexibility to reduce mechanical stresses when the set of busbars expands.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for securing a box cover to a watt-hour meter socket box. In certain embodiments, the apparatus has a clamping member that fits over a wall of a meter box, and a lock housing that locks to the clamping member after a box cover has been installed, thereby securing the cover to the box in a manner such that the box cover cannot be installed unless the clamping member has been installed correctly. In various other embodiments, the clamping member includes a clamp disposed between a clamp actuating member and a fastening shelf. In various other embodiments, the clamp includes a stopping member for indicating when the clamp actuating member is actuated into a fully secured position.

Abstract: Single phase or polyphase switchgear having one or more switches which are mounted with the aid of solid insulation such that they are insulated, as well as associated live components such as rail systems, connectors and the like. Both the switches and the associated live components are housed in a housing enveloping the switches and live components. The enveloping housing is filled with air having a low moisture content and the interior space thereof is sealed with respect to the exterior space around the enveloping housing in such a way that the air present in the housing is not contaminated and will not reach the dew point.

Abstract: A tank filled with an insulating gas accommodates insulator tubes incorporating vacuum-valve breakers for individual phases. One end of each insulator tube is fixed to the inside of the tank. Each vacuum-valve breaker is installed generally on a common longitudinal axis with the corresponding insulator tube so that a movable electrode rod is directed toward a fixed end of the insulator tube. The insulator tube has as an integral part a bus line fixing portion projecting in a direction intersecting the longitudinal axis of the insulator tube from the proximity of an end opposite to the fixed end, supporting a bus-side conductor in an insulated fashion.

Abstract: In order to provide a converter station for a high-voltage DC connection between two three-phase AC voltage networks, having a converter building which has a number of floors, and in which transformer units, converter devices, filter units, a gas-insulated switchgear assembly with feeder units, at least one cooling system, a DC cable pot head for electrical connection of a high-voltage cable carrying direct current, a smoothing reactor and gas-insulated busbars for electrical connection of these components are arranged, while maintaining its compact design and the arrangement of its components in a closed building, whose cost is low and which has a physically simple design, the invention proposes that the DC cable pot head and the smoothing reactor are arranged on the same floor as the converter valves and are electrically connected to one another via an air-insulated connecting device, with an air-insulated isolating switch being provided in order to produce an isolating gap between the DC cable pot head and

Abstract: As a structure capable of housing a recording/reproducing unit within a thin type image display apparatus without damaging the characteristic of the thin-type image display apparatus such as a wall-hung TV when using the unit, there is provided an image display apparatus having a flat display panel and a casing that supports the display panel wherein a recording/reproducing unit that houses a storage medium therein and conducts the writing or reading with respect to the storage medium is supported substantially in parallel with the display panel within the casing. The image display apparatus is capable of changing the arrangement direction of the storage medium, suppressing an interference of the storage medium with a peripheral device at the time of projecting the storage medium, and housing the storage medium so as not to be superimposed on the display panel.

Abstract: The invention provides a “hybrid” high voltage multiphase distribution substation having one or more sets of busbars including at least one air-insulated set of busbars (10), the substation having feeders (A, B, C, D) for air-insulated lines (21, 22) placed in substantially parallel bays (11, 12) on either side of the set(s) of busbars (10) and including metal-clad breaking and switching modules each formed by metal cladding (2) containing, for each electrical phase passing through a module, breaking and disconnection systems connected to a phase conductor (6) in an insulating gas, an end disconnection system (4A, 4B) being placed at each of the two ends (13, 14) of a module, the substation being characterized in that the feeders are opposite in facing pairs, and in that two opposite feeders (A, B) are electrically interconnected for each electrical phase via a single module (1) when the break systems (3A, 3B, 3C) and the end disconnector systems (4A, 4B) of said module are closed, said end discon

Abstract: A metal-clad electric switch having gas insulation and a metal case comprises a case whose inside volume is subdivided into at least two compartments separated by a leakproof partition. A first disconnector is disposed in one of the compartments and comprises a first blade co-operating with a first connection terminal. A second disconnector is placed adjacent to the first disconnector in the other compartment and comprises a second blade co-operating with a second connection terminal. The blades are secured to a common rotary shaft passing in leakproof manner through the partition and providing electrical conduction between the blades.

Abstract: In a gas insulated switchgear device, a phase transposing unit for bus line conductors is provided in a bus line tank without providing a separate bus line extending unit. A bus line container includes a plurality of tanks connected in a straight line shape in which three phase main bus line conductors are accommodated. The container also includes connecting ports through which conductors can be connected. Terminal portions near the connecting portions of respective phases of the three phase bus line conductors in at least one of the tanks are extended so as to match an arrangement position of three phase bus line conductors in an adjacent tank.

Abstract: A vacuum circuit interrupter for use in a switchgear connectable to a three-phase ac power system and having for each phase a vacuum valve including a pair of separable electrodes supported within a hermetic vessel by an electrode. Axes of the vacuum valves for three phases are arranged in parallel and at apexes of a triangle. Electrically insulating barriers are disposed for supporting and electrically insulating the vacuum valve from another vacuum valve in another phase and from the hermetic vessel.

Abstract: In order to shorten the length of connection buses and reduce a cost, in the present invention, a plurality of T-branched circuit breaker units 12 are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the T-branch direction, and the plurality of circuit breaker units 12 are connected by first connection bus units 14 and second connection bus units 15 in series alternately in a rectangular wave shape on a horizontal plane of approximately the same height as the T-branch portions of the circuit breaker units 12. Thereby, first connection buses 5 and second connection buses 6 are stretched around on the horizontal plane of the same height as the T-branch portions of the circuit breaker units 12, but not stretched around in an up and down direction. Therefore, the length of the connection buses can be reduced, and the cost also can be reduced.

Abstract: A gas insulated switchgear includes a plurality of T-branched circuit breaker units arranged in a direction perpendicular to the T-branch direction, and connected by first connection bus units and second connection bus units in series alternately in a rectangular wave shape on a horizontal plane of approximately the same height as the T-branch portions of the circuit breaker units. First connection buses and second connection buses are arranged around on the horizontal plane of the same height as the T-branch portions of the circuit breaker units, but are not arranged in an up and down direction.

Abstract: A drawing apparatus constructed such that a screw rod 17 having an axis center along a drawing direction of an electrical machinery 1 is rotatably supported by a floor portion 11a of a drawing type electrical machinery accommodating portion 11 of a switch gear, a nut 19 engaged with a lower portion of the electrical machinery 1 is screwed with the screw rod 17, the nut 19 is moved by rotating the screw rod 17, and the electrical machinery 1 is driven in a direction of inserting or drawing out, whereby the drawing apparatus is commonly used for various drawing-type electrical machineries regardless of sizes of the electrical machineries.

Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear comprising bushings mounted to and passing through a vessel wall of the hermetic vessel, each having an outer end connected to an insulated bus conductor at the outside of the hermetic vessel and an inner end connected to the electric device within the hermetic vessel. Each of the bushings has a central axis that is perpendicular to the common axis of the electric device and spaced apart from each other in the direction of extension of the common axis and shifted by a predetermined angle with respect to each other about the common axis. The flat bushing mounting vessel walls are tilted from inside to outside relative to other portion of the wall.

Abstract: The instrumentation transformers 6a to 6d and 7a to 7f for measuring the voltage of the main circuit are arranged within the container 15b located in the midst of the containers 15a to 15c. In the present invention, the containers 15a and 15b are linked by the insulating tube 21a and the primary-side lead lines 49 and 53 connected electrically to the primary-side terminal of the instrumentation transformers 6a and 7a are made routed from the container 15b through the insulating tube 21a to the container 15a, and the containers 15b and 15c are linked by the insulating tube 21b and the primary-side lead lines 51 and 55 connected electrically to the primary-side terminal of the instrumentation transformers 6d and 7e are made routed from the container 15b through the insulating tube 21b to the container 15c.

Abstract: In a hybrid type gas insulation switch gear apparatus, an enclosure includes a cylindrical branched portion branched from a cylindrical body so as to be inclined obliquely upward. An insulating gas is sealed therein. Insulating enclosures are mounted to the enclosure and the cylindrical branched portion, a disconnecting switch is arranged within the enclosure and electrically connected to the bushing. A circuit breaker is arranged within the insulating enclosure and electrically connected in series to the disconnecting switch. A current transformer is arranged on the cylindrical branched portion. A connecting conductor is arranged in between the circuit breaker and the disconnecting switch and an earth switch mounted to the enclosure, and an insulating member for supporting a primary electrode and the bushing conductor on the enclosure.

Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear provided with a resin mold bushing for supporting and insulating a main circuit conductor from a ground tank is miniaturized. A container portion 3a is formed by opening an end inside of the tank of a resin mold bushing 3 for supporting and insulating an internal conductor 7 from a ground tank 1 where a breaker 2 and a disconnector are accommodated. A blade-supporting conductor 5 of the disconnector for joining the internal conductor 7 and the disconnector is installed in the container portion.

Abstract: In order to provide a good gas-insulated circuit breaker which is compact and easy in assembling and preparation, a gas-insulated circuit breaker 100 is constructed with a grounded enclosure 104 enclosed a insulation nature gas, a current interruption part having a fixed contactor 115 arranged in the grounded enclosure 104 and a movable contactor 116 to be contacted with and to be separated from the fixed contactor 115, and an operating mechanism 101 to output a driving force to drive the movable contactor 116, wherein a grounded enclosure side main rotating shaft 110 connected to the movable contactor 116 through a connection member and a main output shaft 102 for outputting a rotating force to actuate the movable contactor 116 through the grounded enclosure side main rotating shaft 110 provided on the operating mechanism 101, are arranged on a coax so as to be coupled with a gear coupling 120, and the operating mechanism 101 is arranged almost under the grounded enclosure 104.

Abstract: A combination DC/data connector for connecting electrical equipment stacked in a rack to a continuous vertical combined DC/data bus includes a data connector which cooperates with a slot in the DC/data bus assembly to align the DC/data connector with the bus assembly and make contact with data buses on the walls of the slot. The DC/data connector also includes a pair of DC connectors which slide into channels in the DC bus bars of the DC/data bus assembly after the DC/data connector has been aligned with the bus assembly by the data connector. The data contacts of the DC/data connector are mounted on both sides of a printed circuit card which can be slid into the data connector, and which provides the interconnections between the data contacts and the equipment data interface.

Abstract: A gas insulated switching apparatus has lightning arrestors in a line side unit. Each lightning arrestor is mounted to be moved linearly into and out of connection with a corresponding conductor. Specifically, the cover which supports the lightning arrestor is disposed beneath the bottom plate of the vessel of the line side unit. The lightning arrestors are connected to a monitor of an operating device beneath the line side unit. Since the lower portion of the lightning arrestors are connected to the monitor, the length of the connection lines is made sufficiently short.

Abstract: A high voltage disconnector comprising a fixed contact and a movable contact to the latter to produce an electrical connection between a first conductor and a second conductor, the movable contact and the fixed contact forming, when they are in contact with one another, a connector that is at an angle with respect to the first and/or second conductor, such that when the contacts are in contact with one another during operation a Lorentz force prevails which pulls the fixed and movable contacts apart and is transverse to the first or second conductor. The movable contact and the fixed contact are provided with locking devices which, when the contacts are in contact with one another, engage in one another and act in a direction parallel to the Lorentz force which is pulling the fixed and movable contacts apart and is transverse to the first or second contact.

Abstract: The system for interconnecting pairs of aligned axial conductors of cells housed in enclosures (3, 3′) equipped with bushings (1, 1′) is made up of modules each consisting of an interconnection device (8) and an electrical insulation structure positioned around the interconnection device. The electrical insulation structure is a flexible insulative sleeve (12) of elastically adaptable length whose flat annular ends are pressed by removable clamps (13, 13′) against the bushings (1, 1′) through which the conductors of the connection device pass.