EP2620971A1 - Unité de commutation pour un commutateur électrique et commutateur électrique - Google Patents

Unité de commutation pour un commutateur électrique et commutateur électrique Download PDF

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EP2620971A1
EP2620971A1 EP12189892.8A EP12189892A EP2620971A1 EP 2620971 A1 EP2620971 A1 EP 2620971A1 EP 12189892 A EP12189892 A EP 12189892A EP 2620971 A1 EP2620971 A1 EP 2620971A1
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Pavel Naiman
Milos Petracek
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H21/00—Switches operated by an operating part in the form of a pivotable member acted upon directly by a solid body, e.g. by a hand
    • H01H21/02—Details
    • H01H21/18—Movable parts; Contacts mounted thereon
    • H01H21/22—Operating parts, e.g. handle
    • 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
    • H01H71/505—Latching devices between operating and release mechanism
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H21/00—Switches operated by an operating part in the form of a pivotable member acted upon directly by a solid body, e.g. by a hand
    • H01H21/02—Details
    • H01H21/18—Movable parts; Contacts mounted thereon
    • H01H21/36—Driving mechanisms
    • H01H21/40—Driving mechanisms having snap action
    • H01H21/42—Driving mechanisms having snap action produced by compression or extension of coil spring
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H5/00—Snap-action arrangements, i.e. in which during a single opening operation or a single closing operation energy is first stored and then released to produce or assist the contact movement
    • H01H5/04—Energy stored by deformation of elastic members
    • H01H5/06—Energy stored by deformation of elastic members by compression or extension of coil springs
    • H01H5/08—Energy stored by deformation of elastic members by compression or extension of coil springs one end of spring transmitting movement to the contact member when the other end is moved by the operating part

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  • the invention relates to an electrical switching device, in particular a circuit breaker, such as a molded case circuit breaker.
  • circuit breakers have the task of decoupling one or a number of consumers from a power supply network when a specific fault occurs.
  • the classic fault is the occurrence of a short circuit current, and the circuit breakers are conventionally designed to move a switching unit in such a short-circuit current and thus to decouple the connection between consumers and power supply network.
  • the switching unit of the electrical switching device After triggering of such an electrical switching device, the switching unit of the electrical switching device is reset. This means that the switching unit is moved by means of a pivot lever from a TRIP position to a RESET position. This reset operation is part of a switching operation of an electrical switching device and it is therefore necessary after a triggering of the switching device to reset the switching device by a reset operation to then turn it on.
  • One of the main problems during the reset operation is the friction of components of the switching unit, in particular between the surfaces of the triggering mechanism, in particular the triggering shaft, and the pawl, during the reset operation, that is the movement of the switching unit from the TRIP position to the RESET position to be in contact with each other.
  • the friction between the pawl and the triggering mechanism is too great, it may happen that the pawl does not slide off the contact surface of the triggering mechanism and therefore can not pivot.
  • the pawl is not movable or resettable and the electrical switching device, such as a molded case circuit breaker can not be turned on after the reset process.
  • the switching unit is not reset properly (resettet), so that during the subsequent switching on of the electrical switching device or the switching unit of the electrical switching device, the pawl of the clamping lever The switching unit can not be held in the RESET position and therefore the switching unit is not transferred to the ON position, but to the TRIP position.
  • Fig. 1 schematically shows a part of the switching unit of this known circuit breaker.
  • Fig. 1 is the circuit breaker tripped, that is located in the TRIP position.
  • An operator of the circuit breaker can reset the switching unit of the circuit breaker by pressing the clamping lever 5 (reset).
  • the switching unit has a pawl 2 and a triggering mechanism 1.
  • the pawl 2 and the trigger mechanism 1 are pivotally mounted, for example rotatably on a side wall 10 of the circuit breaker. Between the pawl 2 and the trigger mechanism 1, a pawl spring 9 is tensioned, the required torque on the pawl second and also on the triggering mechanism 1 exercises.
  • the force exerted by the pawl spring 9 or the force exerted by the pawl spring 9 generates between the trigger mechanism 1 and the pawl 2 contact forces and frictional forces. During the reset process, it must be ensured that the frictional forces between the pawl 2 and the release mechanism 1 do not prevent pivoting or twisting of the pawl 2 in the direction of the tensioning lever 5 of the shifting unit.
  • the pawl 2 has to pivot or rotate in order to jump on the tensioning lever 5.
  • spring elements in particular also the pawl spring 9, generate the switching unit a torque which pivots the tensioning lever 5, so that the tensioning lever 5, in particular the contact surface 7 of the tensioning lever 5, in Contact with the pawl 2, that is, the contact surface 8 of the pawl 2, device.
  • the pawl 2 pivots and is stopped in the RESET position by the contact surface 6 of the trigger mechanism 1. After reaching the RESET position of the switching unit of the circuit breaker can be turned on.
  • a disadvantage of the mode-3VT1 circuit breaker is that additional elements, such as the hook 3 of the triggering mechanism 1 and the curved portion 11 of the pawl 2, are required to ensure the functionality of the switching unit.
  • additional elements are costly.
  • more material is required, on the other hand, these elements must be manufactured with high precision and calibrated to each other to ensure the functionality of the switching unit and thus of the circuit breaker, in particular the reset operation of the switching unit of the circuit breaker.
  • Such a trained switching unit for an electrical switching device in particular for a circuit breaker is simple and inexpensive to produce and allows a simple and safe resetting (resetting) of the electrical switching device.
  • the special design of the switching unit prevents that occurring by friction forces between the pawl and the trigger mechanism of the reset operation of the switching unit and thus the electrical switching device can not be performed.
  • the special design of the pawl and the pawl spring of the switching unit ensures that during the reset process, that is, the pivoting of the shift lever from the TRIP position to the RESET position, an additional torque exerted by the pawl spring on the pawl and on the trigger mechanism is, wherein the additional torque by the deflection of the pawl spring by a side surface of the pawl, which is in contact with the spring, when the reset operation is performed.
  • the pawl and the pawl spring may be configured such that during the movement of the shift lever from the TRIP position to the RESET position, the pawl spring comes into contact with the side face of the pawl and is thereby bent.
  • the pawl and the pawl spring are designed such that even with a movement of the shift lever from the ON position to the TRIP position, the pawl spring comes into contact with the side surface of the pawl and is thereby bent. This ensures that already at the beginning of the reset process, an additional force and thus an additional torque is exerted on the pawl or on the trigger mechanism, so that they are moved such that the pawl contact surface of the pawl from the release contact surface of the trigger mechanism slides safely.
  • Additional force or additional torque means that the bending of the pawl spring another force is exerted by the pawl spring on the pawl or the trigger mechanism, the normal force of the pawl spring, that is, the force exerted by the pawl spring on the pawl or on the trigger mechanism if this is not bent, but only braced, supported.
  • the switching unit according to the invention can provide an at least equal force for triggering the switching unit but a greater force to turn the latch during the reset process.
  • the switching unit according to the invention can provide an at least equal force for triggering the switching unit but a greater force to turn the latch during the reset process.
  • no new or additional elements on the pawl and on the trigger mechanism are required compared to the described prior art. Only the arrangement of the pawl spring to the pawl is such that the pawl spring at a certain movement of the pawl it comes into contact, so that the pawl spring is bent by the pawl.
  • the latch spring can be designed in various ways. Particularly preferred is a switching unit in which the pawl spring is designed as a tension spring.
  • a first end of the pawl spring is arranged on the side of the pawl on which the pawl is pivotally or rotatably mounted with a side wall of the switching unit.
  • the second end of the tension spring designed as a pawl spring is on the trigger mechanism, which is in particular a triggering shaft arranged.
  • the trained as a tension spring latch spring can have English or German fastening hooks.
  • the diameter of the trained as a tension spring pawl spring is sized so large that during the movement of the shift lever from the ON position to the TRIP position and / or from the TRIP Position in the RESET position, the pawl spring is bent by the contact with the side surface of the pawl.
  • the part of the turns of the tension spring comes into contact with the side face of the pawl, which faces the first end of the pawl spring.
  • the trigger contact surface of the trigger mechanism is disposed on a projection of the trigger mechanism and the pawl contact surface of the pawl is formed by a recess, in particular a recess in the pawl, wherein in the TRIP position the trigger contact surface of the trigger mechanism at least partially frictionally abuts the pawl contact surface of the pawl.
  • the triggering mechanism advantageously has a rotatable around a rotational axis of the trigger mechanism body on which the projection is arranged.
  • the latch contact surface is formed by a depression, particularly preferably by a recess, in particular a polygonal recess in the latch.
  • the latch contact surface is advantageously inclined, in particular inclined by 90 °, to the longitudinal extension of the pawl formed on this.
  • the trigger contact surface of the projection of the trigger mechanism is at least partially frictionally engaged with the pawl contact surface of the pawl.
  • the frictional engagement is caused by the bias of the pawl spring in this TRIP position.
  • the deflection of the pawl spring in the TRIP position ensures that when the shift lever is moved from the TRIP position to the RESET position, ie during a reset operation of the switch unit, the pawl contact surface and the trip contact surface slide away from each other Release the triggering mechanism. This is supported by the additional force exerted by the deflection of the pawl spring.
  • the object is achieved by an electrical switching device which has at least one switching unit according to the first aspect of the invention.
  • the electrical switching device is a power switch, in particular a molded case circuit breaker.
  • Circuit breakers are in particular electromagnetic self-switches. In particular, they can be used as circuit breakers to protect circuits against short circuit and / or overload be used. A use as a motor protection switch is widespread. Due to the design of the electrical switching device as a circuit breaker, in particular as a molded case circuit breaker, the electrical switching device can be used in a wide range of electrical applications.
  • Fig. 1 a switching unit of Modeion 3VT1 circuit breaker Siemens AG represented, which represents the state of the art to the switching unit according to the invention.
  • Fig. 2 shows schematically in a sectional view a part of a switching unit 20, which is formed according to the inventive design principle.
  • the switching unit 20 can in an electrical switching device, in particular in a circuit breaker, such as a molded case circuit breaker, are used.
  • the switching unit 20 has a switching mechanism for connecting and disconnecting at least one moving contact of at least one fixed contact of an electrical switching device.
  • the switching mechanism has a clamping lever 25 rotatably mounted about a fixed clamping lever axis, a rocking lever 24 movably mounted on the clamping lever 25, and a hinge mechanism for moving the moving contact.
  • the tensioning lever 25 is for the movement of the movement contact via the hinge mechanism, which is not shown in detail, with this in operative connection.
  • the mounting of the clamping lever 25 may be provided at the end of the clamping lever 25, not shown, or in a central region of the clamping lever 25.
  • the switching unit has a pawl 22 for locking and unlocking the clamping lever 25. That is, the pawl 22 serves to cooperate with the cocking lever 25 to hold it in the ON position.
  • the switching unit comprises a switchable about a stationary bearing axis shift lever 32 for manually connecting and disconnecting the moving contact via the switching mechanism, wherein the shift lever between an OFF position and an ON position manually and a TRIP position T and a RESET position R manually or is automatically swiveled.
  • the shift lever may be gripped by an operator of the electrical switching device to manually switch the shift lever between an OFF and an ON position.
  • the shift lever 32 may be gripped by an operator to transfer the shift lever 32 from a TRIP position T to the RESET position R to reset the shift unit 20.
  • the switching unit has a tension roller 33 which can be driven via the shift lever 32 such that upon movement of the shift lever 32, the tension roller 33 by rolling along a clamping contour 34 of the clamping lever 25 with the clamping lever 25 for pivoting the clamping lever 25 in operative contact stands. That is, at the clamping contour 34th of the clamping lever 25 is a tension roller 33, which can be driven via the shift lever 32 such that during a movement of the shift lever 32, the tension roller 33 rolls on the clamping contour 34 of the clamping lever 25 and thereby pivots.
  • the tension roller 33 is rotatably mounted on the shift lever 32.
  • a clamping element in particular a spring
  • the switching mechanism which is not shown, stretched or relaxed. That is, depending on the direction in which the tension roller 33 rolls along the tensioning curve 34 of the tensioning lever 24, the tensioning element is tensioned or relaxed.
  • the switching unit further has a triggering mechanism 21 rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation, which is detachably in operative contact with at least one triggering contact surface 26 with a pawl contact surface 28 of the pawl 22 in the TRIP position T of the switching unit 20.
  • the pawl spring 29 of the switching unit 20 is disposed between the pawl 22 and the triggering mechanism 21, which is also referred to as a drop lock. In the Fig. 2 shown TRIP position T of the switching unit 20, the trained as a tension spring pawl spring 29 is pulled apart so that this clamps the pawl 22 and the trigger mechanism 21 with each other.
  • the pawl 22 and the pawl spring 29 are formed such that upon movement of the shift lever 32 from the ON position to the TRIP position T, the pawl spring 29 is bent by contact with a side surface 37 of the pawl 22. This is in Fig. 2 shown.
  • One area of the tension spring designed as a pawl spring 29 is due to the relative movement of the pawl spring 29 to the pawl 22 on a side surface 37 of the pawl 22, whereby the pawl spring 29 is bent.
  • the bent pawl spring 29 exerts a force F on the pawl 22 or exerts a torque on the pawl 22, which in addition to the normal clamping force of the pawl spring 29 ensures that in a reset operation that is at the transition of the switching unit 20 of the TRIP Position T in the RESET position R, which is in Fig. 3 is exercised.
  • This additional force exerted by the bending of the pawl spring 29 on the pawl 22 and the trigger mechanism 21 it is ensured that the trigger contact surface 26 of the trigger mechanism 21 and the pawl contact surface 28 of the pawl 22 during the reset process safely slide from each other.
  • Fig. 2 the switching unit 20 of the electrical switching device is triggered.
  • an operator of the switching unit 20 or of the electrical switching device pivots the shift lever 22. In this case, he controls the tension of the tensioning lever 25.
  • the pawl spring 29 is tensioned in the TRIP position T. required torque for the pawl 22 and also for the triggering mechanism 21 in certain directions. The torque of the pawl spring 29 generates between the pawl 22 and the triggering mechanism 21 certain contact forces or frictional forces.
  • the rocker arm 24 of the switching unit 20 is movable relative to the clamping lever 25 in a slotted guide 35 and on a bearing element 36.
  • the embodiment of the switching unit 20 described above describes the present invention by way of example only. Of course, other embodiments of the switching unit 20 are conceivable.

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