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Rotary arc type circuit breaker

US4381436A · kind A · utility

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2References
5Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 24, 1980
Grant dateApr 26, 1983
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 24, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01H33/982
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Gas-blast circuit interrupter having a gas-blast aspiration device for interrupting small currents and a magnetic blowout device which causes rotation of the arc and/or a gas blasting device by the thermal expansion of the gas in the arc-extinguishing chamber towards an expansion chamber for interrupting high currents about some hundred amperes.

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