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Heavy-duty circuit-breaker with sealing against hot gas

US7732727B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 21, 2007
Grant dateJun 8, 2010
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Expiry dateJul 23, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01H2033/888
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The heavy-duty circuit-breaker with arc blowing has an element which is sensitive to hot gas and/or to gas pressure and is protected by means of a seal against a hot-gas flow. The seal is advantageously a movable non-contacting seal. The seal has a channel entrance for production of a partial hot-gas flow of the hot-gas flow and, connected downstream from this, a channel in order to reduce the mass flow of the partial hot-gas flow, and an expansion chamber in order to expand the volume of the partial hot-gas flow. The expansion chamber is a pressure-relief area. The element may, for example, be a guide element, a contact-making element or a sealing element.

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