High-voltage switches with arc preventing or extinguishing devic – Arc preventing or extinguishing devices – Air-current blowout
Patent
1995-04-12
1997-04-01
Gellner, Michael L.
High-voltage switches with arc preventing or extinguishing devic
Arc preventing or extinguishing devices
Air-current blowout
218 38, 218156, H01H 3308, H01H 3320
Patent
active
056168985
ABSTRACT:
A medium-voltage or high-voltage circuit-breaker including, in a casing filled with a dielectric gas, an interrupting chamber in which metal plates are disposed for splitting up an electric arc into a multitude of smaller or "elementary" arcs under the action of a magnetic field, the circuit-breaker including a helical insulating ramp winding around a central generator line, the ramp being disposed on the inside peripheral portion of the chamber and around a conductive electrode, and the metal plates being disposed along the ramp, around and at a distance from the conductive electrode.
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patent: 2668890 (1954-02-01), Latour
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patent: 3716685 (1973-02-01), Wilson
patent: 4295021 (1981-10-01), Asinovsky et al.
French Search Report FR 9404890, Nov. 30, 1994.
Friedhofer Michael A.
GEC Alsthom T & D SA
Gellner Michael L.
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