Contact arrangement for vacuum switches

US4334133A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Gebel · Erlangen, DE
• Gerhard Peche · Berlin, DE
• Heinrich Schindler · Erlangen, DE
• Jurgen-Dietrich Welly · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 24, 1980
• Grant date: Jun 8, 1982
• Expiry date: Mar 24, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01H33/6642
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A contact arrangement for vacuum switches with coaxially arranged cup contacts, the slotted contact carrier of which is provided with a contact ring, in which, the exposed surface of the contact ring is provided with bevels extending radially inward and outward and the contact ring and/or the contact carrier contain an annular zone with an electric conductivity which is substantially reduced in comparison with the material of the contact carrier.