EP0963596A1 - Electro-mechanical switching device - Google Patents
Electro-mechanical switching deviceInfo
- Publication number
- EP0963596A1 EP0963596A1 EP98910592A EP98910592A EP0963596A1 EP 0963596 A1 EP0963596 A1 EP 0963596A1 EP 98910592 A EP98910592 A EP 98910592A EP 98910592 A EP98910592 A EP 98910592A EP 0963596 A1 EP0963596 A1 EP 0963596A1
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- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- switching device
- switching
- inductance
- magnetic field
- sensor
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H71/00—Details of the protective switches or relays covered by groups H01H73/00 - H01H83/00
- H01H71/04—Means for indicating condition of the switching device
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H71/00—Details of the protective switches or relays covered by groups H01H73/00 - H01H83/00
- H01H71/04—Means for indicating condition of the switching device
- H01H2071/048—Means for indicating condition of the switching device containing non-mechanical switch position sensor, e.g. HALL sensor
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H47/00—Circuit arrangements not adapted to a particular application of the relay and designed to obtain desired operating characteristics or to provide energising current
- H01H47/002—Monitoring or fail-safe circuits
Definitions
- the invention relates to an electromagnetic switching device with at least one movable contact and associated drive in a device housing, with means for contactless detection of the switching state, magnetic field sensors being provided, which are arranged at a suitable point inside and / or outside the device housing and detect the magnetic field values associated with one of several switching states, the device housing having a switching handle intended for manual triggering.
- Switching states of electromechanical protective switching devices are characterized by tripping processes of the switch mechanism and can therefore be detected by detecting the change in position of certain components, such as for example the switching handle of the magnet armature usually present or an associated bimetal, and the associated occurrence of strong magnetic fields in the event of overcurrent or short circuit.
- DHE differential Hall effect
- GMR G_iant magneto-resistive
- AMR anisotropy magneto resistive sensor
- the object of the invention is to provide a switching device with robust and inexpensive sensor elements for the position monitoring of parts carrying magnetic fields.
- a miniature inductor with ferrite core is present as a highly sensitive magnetic field sensor, with which the position of the control handle or a part coupled to it is monitored and / or the current flowing in the switching device is detected.
- Such miniature inductors known per se are advantageously suitable for the use of state detection in switching devices.
- the permeability of the ferrite core of the miniature inductor is changed by the action of external magnetic fields and there is a clear sensitivity to the field direction, in particular in the case of a pronounced axial geometry.
- the variable inductance of the miniature inductance can preferably be evaluated with an oscillator circuit.
- Miniature inductors in a wide variety of designs are known from the prior art; they are mass-produced, so that they are mature as a mass product and are advantageously extremely inexpensive.
- the ferrite core of miniature inductance which changes the permeability through the action of external magnetic fields, serves as the actual sensor means for the intended use in the invention.
- FIG. 1 is a switching device with an inductance sensor and associated permanent magnets, which are attached outside the switch housing.
- FIG. 2 shows an exploded drawing of the sensor arrangement and the drive bracket from FIG. 1 to clarify the position detection,
- FIG. 3 shows an evaluation circuit for measuring the change in inductance of the inductance sensor used in FIG. 1
- FIG. 4 shows an oscillogram for manually switching off a circuit breaker
- FIG. 5 shows a symmetrical evaluation circuit for measuring the change in inductance of a differential inductance sensor
- FIG. 6 shows an oscillogram of the manual switch-off of a circuit breaker with a differential inductance sensor
- Figures 7 to 9 different oscillograms to illustrate the switching behavior
- Figure 10 is a switching device corresponding to Figure 1, in which a
- FIGS. 12 to 14 oscillograms of the switching behavior in the switching device according to FIG. 10,
- FIG. 15 the arrangement of a miniature inductor with a permanent magnet as an angle or proximity sensor, and
- FIG. 16 an oscillogram to explain the effect of FIG. 15.
- FIG. 1 shows the spatial arrangement of a sensor system for a line circuit breaker selected on a test device, the sensor system being located outside the switch housing at a short distance from the housing side wall and being shown in a projection onto the switching device: in a switch housing 1 are known in Way terminals 2 and 3, a contact arrangement of fixed contact 4 and moving contact 5, associated connections with a bimetal as a line connection 7 and a solenoid 8 available and shown in a simplified representation.
- the fixed contact 4 is located on a rigid contact carrier 40, the moving contact 5 on a movable contact carrier 50, which can be activated via a drive bracket 51 made of ferromagnetic material and a turning handle 52.
- a permanent magnet 11 is attached “under” the movable contact carrier 50, to which an inductance sensor 60 with electrical connections 61, 62 is assigned.
- the permanent magnet 11 is provided with a field-strengthening iron sheet 12.
- the magnetic field of the permanent magnet 11 is coupled onto the drive bracket 51 and, for field strengthening, the iron sheet 12 is applied to the side of the permanent magnet facing away from the drive bracket 51, which the inductance sensor 60 approximately to towering over the middle.
- the inductance sensor 60 is located between the approximately parallel legs of a U-shaped magnetic circuit composed of the drive bracket 51 and the iron sheet 12, the transverse leg of which is formed by the permanent magnet 11.
- the magnetization direction is chosen so that the magnetic field emerges from the permanent magnet 11 perpendicular to the plane of the drawing in FIG.
- a signal circuit is fed by a square wave generator 101 with, for example, an amplitude of + 15 V, a frequency ⁇ 1 MHz and a current consumption 1 1 mA, and the output signal is further processed via a differential amplifier 111.
- the measuring circuit contains, in addition to the actual measuring branch, a compensation branch for determining the zero differential voltage.
- Measuring branches are largely identical to avoid a temperature drift of the output voltage, which is dependent on the diode properties. In detail are in the
- L is the variable inductance of inductance sensor 60.
- the RC elements are used for signal integration.
- FIG. 4 shows the associated measuring oscillogram with the temporal course of the sensor signal Is and its influence by the magnetic field of the electric current flowing in the switch.
- iron shielding for example with 0.8 mm iron sheet, must be provided on the outside of the sensor device. It can be seen from the oscillogram that the magnetic field overlaps the field of the permanent magnet and modulates the position signal of the inductance sensor 60.
- FIG. 5 the evaluation circuit according to FIG.
- the interference signal of the differential inductance sensor 60 ′ reaches approximately half the signal swing between the on and off position.
- the magnetic field influence mainly comes from the trigger coil, which can be derived in detail from the oscillograms according to FIGS. 7 to 9.
- the magnetic field sensitivity of, in particular, magnetically biased inductance sensors can also be used for a rough current measurement.
- the geometric arrangement of the switching device is shown in FIGS. 10 and 11
- FIG. 11 reproduced, in the area of the solenoid 8th an inductance sensor 60 'is arranged at a distance of 2 mm from the outside of the housing.
- a permanent magnet 11 'with a field-reinforcing iron plate 12' is in turn associated with the inductance sensor 60 '. It is particularly clear from FIG. 11 that a rough current measurement is possible with the inductance sensor 60 'by determining the magnetic field at the trigger coil, since the sensitivity of the sensor is increased by the magnetic bias.
- FIG. 15 Another possible application of the specified miniature inductance exists in switching devices as a proximity or angle sensor if a permanent magnet is used as the transmitter element. This is illustrated in FIG. 15.
- FIG. 15 shows in detail the geometrical assignment of an inductance sensor 60 ′′ to a rotatably mounted permanent magnet 11 ′′.
- the inductance signal of the sensor 60 ′′ can be processed further by the evaluation circuit in FIG. 3 and is shown as an oscillogram in FIG. 16.
- Figure 16 shows the oscillographically measured voltage signal Ws as a function of the angle of rotation.
- the sensor signal depends on the distance between sensor 60 ′′ and permanent magnet 11 ′ and its period is 180 ° of the angle of rotation. For the half period of 90 °, the angle of rotation and the sensor signal are therefore clearly assigned to one another.
- the measurement signal curve in FIG. 16 is influenced by the tuning of the evaluation circuit and has approximately a sine square curve.
- the sensitive measuring range extends over a rotation angle range of approximately 25 °. While the measurement signal in the interval from 60 to 120 ° according to Figure 16 deviates greatly from the sinusoidal curve, the sensor inductance shows a monotonically increasing curve between L 0 ⁇ 185 ⁇ H to L 90 ⁇ 90 ⁇ H in the interval from 0 to 90 ° rotation angle. Due to the strong permanent magnetic field and the resulting large voltage swing of the measurement signal of 2 V, the susceptibility to interference from external magnetic fields is relatively low.
- the angle sensor constructed with the described miniature inductance can therefore be used to detect the switching state of a motor protection switch, the switching position and the short-circuit release being identified by the angle of rotation position of the associated shafts.
- the evaluation circuits in FIGS. 3 and 5 in particular show that the electronic outlay for the described uses of the miniature inductors is low and is essentially relates to a square wave generator with high frequency and amplitude constancy at low current load and a differential amplifier for generating an output signal related to 0 V. A switching device with position monitoring is thus implemented, which requires only a little additional effort.
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