US3483491A - Sealed reed relay and method of manufacturing the same - Google Patents

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US3483491A
US3483491A US724487A US3483491DA US3483491A US 3483491 A US3483491 A US 3483491A US 724487 A US724487 A US 724487A US 3483491D A US3483491D A US 3483491DA US 3483491 A US3483491 A US 3483491A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H51/00—Electromagnetic relays
    • H01H51/28—Relays having both armature and contacts within a sealed casing outside which the operating coil is located, e.g. contact carried by a magnetic leaf spring or reed
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  • a reed relay of simple construction in which an exciting winding in the form of a prismatic body is wound on a base plate.
  • the winding is such that one side face of the winding is adjacent to the base plate while the other side faces of the winding enclose the protective tube or several protective tubes.
  • the present invention relates to a reed relay comprising reed contacts arranged inside the operating coil in which the exciting winding at least partly directly encloses the protective tube or tubes respectively and, moreover, to a method of manufacturing such a reed relay.
  • reed relays contacts arranged inside a protective tube, simultaneously act as armatures.
  • these reed contacts consist of two contact blades made of contact metal, which are sealed into a small glass envelope. The ends of these reeds overlap each other inside the small glass envelope and maintain a small spacing.
  • a magnetic field When causing a magnetic field to act in such a way upon the reed contact that the reeds are magnetized with an opposite polarity, they will attract each other under the influence of the magnetic field. Accordingly, the contact is closed by the action of the magnetic field as soon as the force becomes greater than the spring forces of the two reeds, whereas in the absence of the magnetic field, a separation of the contact is effected owing to the spring action.
  • the conventional arrangement has the advantage that the winding is disposed in the closest proximity of the reed contacts and, therefore, exerts a stronger magnetic effect thereupon, than when using a special coil body.
  • it has the disadvantage of making it absolutely necessary to fix the ends of the contact units in the slots of the terminal plates in cases where the relay 3,483,491 Patented Dec. 9, 1969 is supposed to be handled reliably and without causing the contact units to fall out of the relay in the course of time.
  • the removal of one of the contact units from the relay is rendered difiicult in cases where one unit becomes faulty during operation and has to be replaced by a new one.
  • Object of the present invention is to provide an improved type of reed relay not having the aforementioned disadvantages.
  • a reed relay of the type mentioned hereinbefore and according to the invention as characterized in the main claim this is accomplished in that the operating winding, in the form of a substantially prismatic body, is in such a way wound on to a base plate consisting of insulating material, that one lateral surface of the winding comes to lie in a form-locking manner close to the base plate, whereas the other lateral surfaces of the winding are designed self-supportingly (air-spaced), and include between them the protective tube or tubes respectively.
  • Preferred types of embodiment of the invention are characterized in the subclaims.
  • the coil body By designing the coil body in this way and by arranging the operating winding in the way described hereinbefore, there is achieved the production-technical advantage but the operating winding does not need to be wound directly onto the protective tube or tubes respectively, so that a subsequent equipment with desired contact units or the removal of one of the contact units is possible without further ado.
  • the winding is disposed in the closest proximity of the reed contacts, so that it is sufiicient to provide the coil with less windings (turns).
  • the base plate acting as the coil body can be manufactured in a particular simple way on a low-cost basis because in this case there is concerned a punched hard-paper item, hence a component which is typical for mass production.
  • FIG. 1 shows alongitudinal section of a reed relay in which the operating winding has been removed for making visible details of the coil body
  • FIG. 2 shows a longitudinal section which is turned by with respect to the showing of FIG. 1, and
  • FIG. 3 shows a cross-sectional view of this relay but, unlike the showing of FIG. 1, with the operating winding applied.
  • the reed contact as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 consists of a protective tube 1 into the face sides of which contact springs (reeds) 2, 3, are sealed.
  • reeds contact springs
  • the protective tube or tubes 1 are lying in an opening 4 of the base plate 5 acting as the coil body, with the latter being designated in the shape of an oblong frame of insulating material.
  • the opening 4 is adapted to the diameter of the protective tube 1 in such a way, that the tubes can be mechanically fixed in the transverse direction, but do not project through the opening.
  • the base plate 5 may be designed differently wide, quite depending on the number of protective tubes 1 arranged next to each other. In the mass production of reed relays of the type as used in particular in the field of telephone engineering, these different types of embodiments of the base plate 5, however, neither have a disadvantageous effect upon the production technique nor on the stock-keeping, because these parts, as already emphasized hereinbefore, are punched items which are extremely simple and inexpensive in manufacture.
  • the base plate 5 however, not only represents the hold member for both the operating winding and the reed contacts, but, in addition thereto, enables the mounting of a plurality of connecting elements for establishing the electrical connections with associated circuits.
  • the base plate 5 within the range of its facesided ends, is provided with a number of bore holes 6, 7 corresponding to the number of soldering terminals, into which short wire contact members are pressed.
  • wire contact members as one continuous whole, as supplied from one or more wire stocks, are each time shot into the bore holes 6, 7 of the base plate 5, and are then cut to the desired lengths. It is appropriate to provide these wire contact members with a cornered, in particular square crosssectional profile so as to provide them with a self-clamping tight fit after being pressed (shot) in, and to prevent them from becoming loose even under rugged mechanicalstress conditions.
  • the connecting elements of individual or all of the reed contacts may be led out on one side only, so that the reed relay is designed capable of being plugged like an electron tube, and may thus be connected to a printed circuit board.
  • This advantage is likewise accomplished in the most simple way by the present invention, in that the wire contact members are pressed-in at such raster-shaped spaced relations as to project with one short portion of their length on either side out of the base plate 5.
  • the wire contact members On the side facing the protective tube or tubes 1 respectively, the wire contact members may then be connected either to the reed contacts or the ends of the operating winding, i.e.
  • wire contact members associated with the bore holes 6 are connected to the contact springs (reeds) 2, 3 of the protective tube 1, and those of the wire contact members associated with the bore holes 7 are connected to the ends of the windings.
  • Wire Contact members as led out on the other side of the reed relay may be inserted (plugged) in correspondingly adapted plug-in holes provided in a printed circuit board and, if so required, may be connected thereto by way of dip soldering.
  • a contacting of this kind permits in the most simple way the reed relay to be equipped with various types of reed contacts.
  • the base plate 5 with bore holes 6 and associated wire contact members in such a way that also reed contacts can be used which are designed as switch-over contacts (two-way contacts) and, to this end, are provided with two connecting terminals on one face side.
  • individual contact positions provided for reed contacts may also remain unoccupied in the relay.
  • the base plate 5 is provided with flange-like widenings 10 extending in the coil axis, for limiting the winding space in the axial direction.
  • both the base plate 5 and an auxiliary mandrel extending along the coil axis are inserted and turned in a coil winding machine, after the one end of the wire has been fixed to the unit.
  • the operating winding is applied between the flange-like widenings 10 on to the one outside surface of the base plate 5 and of the oppositely arranged outside surface of the auxiliary mandrel, until reaching the desired number of turns.
  • the flange-like widenings 10 thus simultaneously represent the coil ends.
  • the base plate 5 performs quite a number of different functions since it simultaneously acts as a holding device for the reed contacts and the connecting elements and, moreover, as a coil body and limitation for the winding. As will be shown hereinafter, the base plate 5 even serves to perform another function.
  • the number of parts required for the relay unit is reduced to a minimum, a manufacture thereof is simplified and rendered more inexpensive, and there is achieved a very considerable reduction in weight.
  • the wire is cut off, and the auxiliary mandrel is removed. Since the employed coil body is a flat base plate there will be obtained, subsequently to the removal of the auxiliary mandrel, a partly self-supporting coil 11 which is designed in the shape of a prismatic body, or prism-shaped body, as may be taken from FIG. 3. In this way there will result an ex tremely stable structure although the coil 11 is only applied with one of its winding surfaces 12 in a formlocking manner to the base plate 5.
  • the wire turns in particular at the beginning and the end of the operating winding, may be provided with a coat of lacquer for holding together the wire turns, or may be treated with any other binding agent.
  • This lacquer must be hard and flexible and, at the same time, must have a high power of binding with the wire. Upon removing the auxiliary mandrel it is now possible to insert in its stead one or more reed contacts in the winding space which has been left free.
  • the reed relay may be encapsulated.
  • a U-shaped screen member 13 which, by snap action, is joined to the base plate 5.
  • the base plate 5 is provided within the area of its fiange like widenings 10, with engaging members 14 for engaging the slots 15 provided in the screen member 13.
  • the screen member 13 performs the function of a magnetically conducting envelope (shield) for simultaneously screening external magnetic fields and for guiding the own magnetic field as produced by the coil 11.
  • a reed relay comprising reed contacts in a protective tube, an exciting winding wound to form a prismshaped hollow body having three sides, a base plate formed of insulating material, one side of said winding lying in a form-locking manner close to the base plate, and the other sides of said winding self-supportingly including the protective tube between them.
  • a reed relay according to claim 1 in which said base plate is designed in the shape of an oblong frame having an opening which is adapted to both the length 5 and the diameter of said protective tube respectively, with said opening receiving and mechanically fixing said tube respectively in a parallel arrangement.
  • a reed relay according to claim 2 in which said base plate is provided with flange-like widenings extending along the coil axis, which serve to restrict the winding space in the axial direction.
  • a reed relay according to claim 4 in which said wire contact members project with a short portion of their length on either side of said base plate, and are arranged at raster-shaped spaced relations.
  • a reed relay according to claim 1 in which for purposes of encapsulation, a U-shaped sheetmetal screen member is used which is engaged to said base plate by way of snap action.
  • a reed relay according to claim 1 in which said exciting winding, at least within the area of its sides, is provided with a coat of hard-setting binding agent, in particular lacquer, for holding together the turns of said exciting coil.

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