Anti-rebounding lever within a switching device
AssigneeSchneider Electric Industries SAS
InventorsJavier Herreros, Christian Bach
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Abstract
An electrical switching device with separable contacts includes a switching apparatus including a fixed electrical contact and a mobile electrical contact that can be moved between a closing position and an opening position; a control lever mechanically coupled to the mobile electrical contact, the control lever being rotatable, about a first axis of rotation, between a first position and a second position; an anti-rebound lever arranged so as to move from a rest position to an opened-out position when the control lever reaches the second position. The anti-rebound lever engages a stop when it is in the opened-out position thereof and when the control lever is in the second position so as to prevent the control lever from leaving the second position.
Claims13
An electrical switching device with separable contacts, comprising a switching apparatus including:
- a fixed electrical contact and a mobile electrical contact that can be moved between a closing position and an opening position;
- a control lever mechanically coupled to the mobile electrical contact, the control lever being rotatable, about a first axis of rotation, between a first position and a second position, the movement of the control lever from the first position to the second position causing a movement of the mobile contact from the closing position to the opening position;
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- an anti-rebound lever, that is mounted on the control lever by a pivoting link and can be rotated about a second axis that is an axis of the pivoting link and that is parallel to the first axis of rotation, between a rest position and an opened-out position,
- wherein the anti-rebound lever is configured to move from the rest position to the opened-out position when the control lever reaches the second position,
- the anti-rebound lever is configured to engage a stop of the switching apparatus with a convex edge thereof when the anti-rebound lever is in the opened-out position thereof and when the control lever is in the second position to prevent the control lever from leaving the second position, and
- the anti-rebound lever includes a first lobe and a second lobe, and the anti-rebound lever is formed to have a center of gravity located in a smaller of the first lobe and the second lobe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.