EP2256778B1 - Commutateur électrique doté d'un déclencheur thermique - Google Patents

Commutateur électrique doté d'un déclencheur thermique Download PDF

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EP2256778B1
EP2256778B1 EP10004302A EP10004302A EP2256778B1 EP 2256778 B1 EP2256778 B1 EP 2256778B1 EP 10004302 A EP10004302 A EP 10004302A EP 10004302 A EP10004302 A EP 10004302A EP 2256778 B1 EP2256778 B1 EP 2256778B1
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Klaus Zimmer
Ralf Dipl.-Ing. Weber
Alexander Dipl.-Ing. Orban
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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
    • H01H71/10—Operating or release mechanisms
    • H01H71/12—Automatic release mechanisms with or without manual release
    • H01H71/14—Electrothermal mechanisms
    • H01H71/16—Electrothermal mechanisms with bimetal element
    • 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
    • H01H71/08—Terminals; Connections
    • 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
    • H01H71/10—Operating or release mechanisms
    • H01H71/12—Automatic release mechanisms with or without manual release
    • H01H71/40—Combined electrothermal and electromagnetic mechanisms
    • 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
    • H01H71/10—Operating or release mechanisms
    • H01H71/12—Automatic release mechanisms with or without manual release
    • H01H71/14—Electrothermal mechanisms
    • H01H71/145—Electrothermal mechanisms using shape memory materials
    • 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
    • H01H71/10—Operating or release mechanisms
    • H01H71/50—Manual reset mechanisms which may be also used for manual release
    • H01H71/52—Manual reset mechanisms which may be also used for manual release actuated by lever
    • 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
    • H01H71/74—Means for adjusting the conditions under which the device will function to provide protection
    • H01H71/7427—Adjusting only the electrothermal mechanism

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  • the invention relates to an electrical switching device, in particular a circuit breaker, with a running between a first and a second terminal current path, with a thermal release comprising a strip of bimetallic strip or of a shape memory alloy, the strip with its attachment end at the free end of a on a Supporting movably mounted retaining leg is attached and at its actuating end is in operative connection with a switching mechanism, wherein the current path leads from the first terminal via a first conductor piece to the bearing end and on the free end of the retaining leg, as well as the attachment end and the operating end of the strip according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a generic circuit breaker is for example in the DE 10 2008 006 863 A1 shown. It has an access and an output terminal with a current path passed through it by the switching device.
  • the current path leads via a contact point, which is formed between a moveable contact lever mounted on a movable and a fixed contact piece, and at least one thermal, often additionally via an electromagnetic release, of which the thermal release in the event of an overcurrent and the electromagnetic release contribute to the elimination of the switching device when a short-circuit current occurs.
  • the thermal trigger acts on triggering to a Verklinkungsstelle within a switching mechanism, which is coupled to the movable contact lever, to their unlatching a.
  • the contact lever If the Verklinkungsstelle unlatched, the contact lever is pivoted, so that the movable and the free contact piece are separated.
  • the electromagnetic release opens when a short-circuit current occurs, the contact lever directly by impact; At the same time, the electromagnetic release also actuates the switch lock so that the switching device is permanently open.
  • the bimetallic strip is mounted in generic electrical switching devices at the free end of a movably mounted holding leg.
  • the current path coming from the access terminal, first passes through a first conductor piece to the bearing end of the holding leg, then through the holding leg and the bimetal strip and finally further into the interior of the device.
  • the bimetallic strip is traversed directly by the current of the current path, one speaks of a directly heated bimetallic strip.
  • a finite line protection switch is in the US Pat. No. 5,872,495 shown.
  • the present invention is therefore in the light of the prior art, the object of further developing a generic electrical switching device so that the electrical resistance between the access terminal and the bimetallic strip is reduced.
  • the first terminals and the fastening end of the strip are additionally connected via a second conductor piece, which has a higher conductivity than the holding leg.
  • the second conductor piece effectively creates a bypass conductor with low electrical resistance, which is electrically connected in parallel to the holding leg.
  • the resulting total resistance between the terminal and the attachment point of the bimetallic strip is thereby very small, because of the parallel connection smaller than the smallest individual resistance. Even at high rated currents now no excessive warming and no large voltage drop can occur.
  • the switching device comprises an arc guide rail with a housing fixedly mounted extension, the free end forms the retaining leg for attachment of the strip and to U-shaped bent and is pivotally mounted on the bending point forming the bearing end.
  • the holding leg is pivotable with an adjusting means for adjusting the thermal release.
  • the adjusting means may for example be an adjusting screw.
  • the second conductor piece is a conductor strip with a loop-like bulge.
  • a conductor strip has a certain rigidity and strength and is therefore particularly well suited for automatic production, in which the individual parts are to be supplied very precisely by handling machines for mounting in the open housing.
  • the loop-like bulge ensures that the second conductor piece can still give something, if the mounting end of the bimetallic strip is slightly pivoted when adjusting and thereby changes its distance from the access terminal.
  • the second conductor piece is a movable stranded wire. This can very well follow a pivoting of the attachment end of the bimetallic strip due to their flexibility.
  • the holding leg made of steel and the second conductor piece consists of copper.
  • Steel is inexpensive and meets the requirements of dimensional stability and strength has but a relatively high specific resistance.
  • Copper has the required high electrical conductivity, but with reduced mechanical strength.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows an insight into an open housing of an electrical installation device 1, here a circuit breaker.
  • a current path initially passes over a terminal rail 29, a first conductor piece 14 welded thereto, to the bearing end 5 of a retaining leg 4.
  • a strip 2 of bimetallic strip with its attachment end. 3 welded.
  • the opposite, free end 7 of the bimetallic strip 2 is connected to a strand 20.
  • thermobimetallic strip 2 If the current in the main current path remains above the rated current for a long time, then one speaks of an overcurrent, bends the thermobimetallic strip 2 with its free, the fastening end opposite end due to the current heat caused in him by the overcurrent so far that he has an action line 22 acts on a switch lock 8 and there ensures that a Verklinkungsstelle is unlatched.
  • the realization of the interaction of the bimetallic strip with the switching mechanism 8 can be realized in various ways, one possibility is in the already mentioned DE 10 2008 006 863 A1 shown.
  • the rear derailleur acts on a line of action 24 on the contact lever 17 and pivots it in a clockwise direction, so that the movable contact piece 18 separated from the fixed contact piece 19 and the contact point is opened and kept open by the switching mechanism 8.
  • a reconnection can be done via a switch knob 27 which cooperates via a line of action 26 with the switch lock 8 and when actuated a latching of Verklinkungsstelle allowed when the bimetallic strip 2 has bent back to its original position after the overcurrent has subsided. Since the Thermobimetallstsammlung 2 is welded to the bottom of the support leg 4, by pivoting the retaining leg 4, the distance of the free operating end 7 of the bimetallic strip 2 of the Switch lock 8 adjustable.
  • the magnetic release 16 responds. This then proposes via a line of action 25 directly and quickly to the contact lever 17, at the same time it acts on an action line 23 on the switching mechanism 8 for its unlatching and for permanent keeping open the contact point.
  • the arc guide rail 12 carries on its right, the contact point facing side, an extension 31. This has approximately a U-shape, with a first leg 32 which is directly connected to the arc guide rail 12, and a second leg which forms the holding leg 4 ,
  • the retaining leg 4 is formed by bending the extension 31 at a bending point which has also been referred to above as the bearing end 5 for the retaining leg 4.
  • the arc guide rail 12 with the extension 31 may be made of one part.
  • this is a stamped and bent part made of steel. Steel is preferred because of its magnetic property, strength and low cost.
  • the guide rail 12 and the first leg 32 are fixed to the housing and held, which can be made possible in various ways, for example by clamping between webs on the inside of the housing.
  • the retaining leg 4 must remain movable, as described above in connection with the adjustment of the bimetallic strip.
  • the tight fit of the first leg 32 is important in terms of the constancy of the thermal tripping characteristics, since thereby the position of the bimetallic strip 2 relative to the switch lock 8 also remains fixed once it has been adjusted.
  • FIG. 2 shows in an isolated detail view of the extension 31 and its connection to the access terminal 9.
  • the steel strip is slotted. This results in two parallel partial strips.
  • One of these partial strips is bent as a holding leg 4 down.
  • the adjacent partial strip is again bent downwards after a short course, pointing horizontally in the direction of the access clamp 9. It thus forms the first conductor piece 14, which is at a contact point 33 with the busbar of the access terminal 9, the terminal rail 29, welded.
  • a second conductor piece 11 is additionally attached. This is here a copper bar, which may be soldered to the pad 33, for example.
  • the other end of the second conductor piece 11 is at the free end 6 of the Holding leg 4 attached, for example, also soldered. So that the mobility of the retaining leg 4 is not hindered, the second conductor piece 11 is made slightly longer than necessary, and carries in the central region a loop-shaped bulge 28.
  • a first portion of the second conductor piece 11 thus extends from the contact point 33 from parallel to the first conductor piece 14, approximately up to the height of the retaining leg 4. Then the loop-like bulge 28 joins, at the end of which a straight section extends again approximately parallel to the retaining limb 4 towards the free end 6.
  • the loop-like bulge ensures that the second conductor piece 11 is not a hindrance to pivoting of the retaining leg 4 in the course of adjustment in the way.
  • the second portion is shown generally as a conductor piece guided around the adjustment screw 13.
  • a movable strand could be provided. However, such would be more difficult to assemble with automatic assembly machines than a solid sheet. In a hand assembly, however, a strand would be an advantageous alternative.
  • the second copper conductor piece 11 creates a bypass connection that provides a lower resistivity parallel conductor path. This is, as already explained above, advantageous in particular at high rated currents. Without the second conductor piece 11, the steel conductor pieces would strongly heat up at high rated currents because of the relatively high resistivity of steel. The heat would radiate to the bimetallic strip 2, as a result, this could already bend strongly at rated current and cause too early triggering, which should be avoided.

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  1. Appareil de commutation électrique (1), en particulier commutateur de protection de conducteur, doté d'un parcours de courant prévu entre une première et une deuxième borne de raccordement (9, 10), d'un déclencheur thermique comprenant un ruban (2) en bimétal thermique ou en alliage à mémoire de forme, le ruban (2) étant fixé par son extrémité de fixation (3) à l'extrémité libre (6) d'une branche de maintien (4) monté à déplacement sur une extrémité de palier (5) et coopérant avec une serrure de commutation (8) à son extrémité d'actionnement (7), le parcours de courant reliant la première borne (9) à l'extrémité de palier (5) par l'intermédiaire d'une première pièce conductrice (14), de l'extrémité libre (6) de la branche de maintien (4), de l'extrémité de fixation (3) et de l'extrémité d'actionnement (7) du ruban (2), caractérisé en ce que
    la première borne (9) et l'extrémité de fixation (3) du ruban (2) sont de plus reliées par l'intermédiaire d'une deuxième pièce conductrice (11) dont la conductivité est supérieure à celle de la branche de maintien (4).
  2. Appareil de commutation électrique (1) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'appareil de commutation (1) comporte un rail (12) qui conduit un arc lumineux doté d'un prolongement (13) monté fixement sur un boîtier et dont l'extrémité libre forme la branche de maintien (4) qui fixe le ruban (2) et est dans ce but cintrée en U et est montée à pivotement sur l'emplacement cintré qui forme l'extrémité de palier (5).
  3. Appareil de commutation électrique (1) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la branche de maintien (4) peut être pivotée à l'aide d'un moyen d'ajustement (13) pour ajuster le déclencheur thermique.
  4. Appareil de commutation électrique (1) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la deuxième pièce conductrice (11) est un ruban conducteur doté d'une protubérance en forme de boucle.
  5. Appareil de commutation électrique (1) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la deuxième pièce conductrice (11) est une tresse mobile.
  6. Appareil de commutation électrique selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la branche de maintien est réalisée en acier et la deuxième pièce conductrice (11) en cuivre.
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