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US 10,043,628 B2Granted
Switching device having a damping element for a contact system during abrupt switching on
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMartin Steinbauer, Tobias Kemptner, Guenter Wiesent
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Abstract
A switching device having a damping element for a contact system during abrupt switching on, wherein the contact system has a contact slide and a switching piece movably guided therein, and the movable switching piece is mounted opposite a fixed switching piece, where the contact slide has at least one projection that is operatively connected to the damping element when the switching device is switched on abruptly.
Claims12
A switching device comprising:
- a fixed switching piece;
- a damping element for a contact system during abrupt closing, the contact system including:
- a contact slide including at least one projection which, upon the abrupt closing of the switching device, engages with the damping element at a radially external position of the contact slide;
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- a movable switching piece movably guided within the contact slide at the entirety of its center piece and mounted opposite the fixed switching piece.
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