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Current collector and gas circuit breaker

US6664494B2 · kind B2 · utility

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9Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 25, 2002
Grant dateDec 16, 2003
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Expiry dateSep 25, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01H1/385
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

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.

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