US3539746A - Relay switch with diaphragm operated by explosive gas mixture - Google Patents

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US3539746A
US3539746A US722032A US3539746DA US3539746A US 3539746 A US3539746 A US 3539746A US 722032 A US722032 A US 722032A US 3539746D A US3539746D A US 3539746DA US 3539746 A US3539746 A US 3539746A
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Goran Anders Henrik Hemdal
Karl Gunnar Brunberg
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H39/00—Switching devices actuated by an explosion produced within the device and initiated by an electric current
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    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H61/00—Electrothermal relays
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S200/00—Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
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  • a relay includes a container with at least a portion of one wall being deformably outward to actuate an electrical or mechanical device.
  • an electrolyte in contact with a pair of electrodes connected to a direct current source.
  • Switch-operator ignition means within the container controllably explode the gas mixture to cause the deformably portion of the wall to actuate the device.
  • This invention recommends a new way to produce a rapid and simple operation of devices, in which up to now electromagnets have been used, for example a relay, by using a very rapid expansion of a gas carrying out useful work.
  • relay is here'- meant in general terms a device that, when operated, in its turn controls secondary functions. This is effected by means of the invention in accordance with the characterizing part of the main claim.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the principle of the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows one embodiment of the container
  • FIG. 3 shows.v another embodiment of the container
  • FIG. 4 shows a further embodiment of a relay according to the invention.
  • FIG. 5 shows the object of the invention used for controlling a fiuidistor.
  • FIG. 1 shows the principle of a relay according to the invention.
  • By 1 is designated a container having rigid walls except on one side where it is closed by an elastic diaphragm 2. Above the diaphragm, electric contacts 3 are located opposite a lever 8. The contacts 3 are actuated in the convex state of the diaphragm whereas they are not actuated in the concave state of the diaphragm.
  • the container is partly filled with an electrolyte 4, for example KOH+2H O, in which electrodes 5a and 5b are immersed.
  • the current intensity of the electrolysis is controlled in such a way that, after one ignition, a suflicient quantity of gas will be generated to allow the next ingition to take place within a short time determined by the working conditions, for example, by a counter electromotive force being generated in the container when the explosive necessary quantity of gas has been obtained.
  • a relay of the above mentioned type an operation speed that is much greater than that of conventional relays can be achieved.
  • the essential thing is, however, that the combustion process can be ignited by means of a very short signal.
  • the relay is suited, for example, for cooperation with a computer because the ignition can be carried out by means of the very short electrical pulses obtained from the computer.
  • the container may, instead of the container shown in FIG. 1, which has rigid walls and an elastic diaphragm, consist of a pair of bellows 31 containing the electrolyte and the end wall 32 of which is displaced parallelly to itself during the explosive combustion (FIG. 2).
  • the container can also work according to the pressure gauge principle, FIG. 3, a hollow body 42 being straightened when the pressure increases and being in such a way able to actuate means, for example, electric contact means.
  • the container can also be completely elastic in the form of a cylinder or a ball whose whole surface expands, and furthermore it can be designed as a cylinder having a movable piston.
  • the embodiment of the relay shown according to FIG. 1 can be used to control a contact device which, for ex ample, is closed at one actuation and is opened at the other, of the type push-button switch.
  • the diaphragm of said embodiment can, for example, consist of rubber which after a pressure action returns to its rest position. If holding following release of a common contact is desired, the device according to FIG. 4 may be used.
  • the device according to FIG. 4 is different from the device according to FIG. 1 in that the container 1 is provided with two closed chambers, each having a diphragm 12 consisting of, for example, elastic sheet-metal.
  • the diaphragm can take up two alternative stable positions, concave or convex respectively.
  • a lever 17 is arranged which dependant on which of the diaphragms is convex can take two alternative positions. If the gas mixture of the container on the left side on the figure is ignited, the contacts 13 will be brought to a working condition and are retained in that position by the elastic force of the diaphragm.
  • the device according to FIG. 4 can also be used as a bistable flip-flop if one places a further contact means 23 straight in front of the container to the right on FIG. 4. In this way the contact means 13 and 23 can be operated alternately and either contact means be held in actuated position until the other is operated.
  • the electrolyte has been described as a fluid with a limited surface with the pairs of electrodes 5a and 5b immersed in this fluid.
  • another form of preserving the electrolyte might be preferred, for example absorbed in a carrier in which the electrodes are inserted.
  • electrolytes In the examples described the purpose of the electrolytes has been to provide a decomposing of water into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas in order to generate oxyhydrogen gas. If instead electrolytes consisting of a hydro gen compound of some halogen, for example HCl, are chosen, it will be possible to produce a gas mixture which, when influenced by beams of light, can be brought to explosion.
  • electrolytes consisting of a hydro gen compound of some halogen, for example HCl
  • the ignition of the gas mixture can occur in different ways.
  • the oxyhydrogen gas for example, can be ignited by means of a spark generated between two electrodes inserted in the chamber of the container as is described in the above examples, or by allowing a suflicient- 1y strong current to pass through a filament located in the chamber across the electrolyte.
  • the ignition can also be carried out by, for example, the light effect.
  • a source of light can be arranged inside the chamber of the container or if the container is made translucent, a light source can be arranged outside the container but in its neighbourhood.
  • FIG. 5 shows a fluidistor 50 whose flow of which can be controlled alternatively to the left branch 59 or to the right branch 60.
  • the fluidistor is controlled by means of two relays 51 and 52, according to the invention through control channels 61 and 62.
  • a source of light 53 and 54 In the container of each relay is arranged a source of light 53 and 54, respectively, with associated current circuits.
  • the electrolyte, in the example chosen, HCl, is adsorbed in a carrier 55 or 56.
  • Each of the containers is provided with a diaphragm 57 and 58, respectively, which bulges when the pressure increases. Assuming that the fluidor gas flow of the fluidistor at a certain time flows through the left branch 59 and that the gas mixture in the container of the relay 51 be ignited, the bulging of the diaphragm 57 will cause an increase of pressure in the left control channel 61 of the fluidistor and the fluidor gas flow will be deflected into the right branch 60. To govern the flow back to the left branch the relay 52 must be operated.
  • Relay for actuating electrical or mechanical devices comprising a movable control means for actuating said electric or mechanical devices, a closed container having a wall which has at least a portion that is displaceable in an outward direction to a working position for actuating said control means, said container containing a pair of electrodes, a direct current source connected to said electrodes, an electrolyte in said container and in contact with said electrodes, said electrolyte when supplied by an electric current generates a gas mixture having a pressure which is low enough to allow said movable portion to remain substantially in a rest position diiferent from theworking position, an ignition means for igniting said gas mixture to cause an explosion so as to considerably increase the pressure in said container to a value able to move the outwardly displaceable portion of said wall to said working position, and switch means for actuating said ignition means.
  • a relay according to claim 1 in which the container by means of a partition wall is divided into two separate chambers each containing an electrolyte, an ignition means and a movable wall portion, and said switch means comprises separate switches for selectively actuating the ignition means in each chamber so that by igniting alternately the gas mixture of said chambersthe controlmeans is brought to two alternative positions.

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