Electricity: electrothermally or thermally actuated switches – Electrothermally actuated switches – With bimetallic elements
Patent
1997-03-18
1998-10-20
Picard, Leo P.
Electricity: electrothermally or thermally actuated switches
Electrothermally actuated switches
With bimetallic elements
337 62, 337 82, H01H 6100
Patent
active
058252738
ABSTRACT:
Differential thermal tripping device with bimetallic strips for electrical protection appliance such as a circuit breaker. The circuit breaker includes a tripping assembly with two contact strips 30, 40 free to move along the X direction, and for each bimetallic strip, a single adjustment part 15 fixed to a free inclined edge 19 of the bimetallic strip head 13, adjustable along the X direction, in the position obtained after heating of the bimetallic strips for calibration. The assembly 30, 40 may consist of a frame supporting adjustment parts until they are fixed and provided with separable areas 36, 46 to generate two contact strips following cutting.
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Gandhi Jayprakash N.
Picard Leo P.
Schneider Electric SA
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