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US 12,683,103 B2Granted
Rapid safety switch and rapid safety switch system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorJürgen Einschenk
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Abstract
A rapid safety switch has a switch housing. The switch housing has six outer housing faces, including a front housing face, an open rear housing face, an upper housing face, a lower housing face, a first housing face, and a second housing face. An operating tool interface can be operated through one of the outer housing faces. The switch further includes one or more connection elements for controlling the rapid safety switch. The rapid safety switch can be unlatched by an electromagnetic trigger, and the rapid safety switch has a moving contact.
Claims9
A rapid safety switch, comprising:
- a switch housing, said switch housing having:
- six housing external sides, including a housing front side, an open housing rear side, a housing upper side, a housing lower side, a first housing side, and a second housing side;
- an operating-tool interface to be operated through one of said housing external sides;
- and
- one or more connection elements for controlling the rapid safety switch;
- an electromagnetic release mechanism configured to unlatch the rapid safety switch and a moving contact to be moved by a spring accumulator, said spring accumulator being latched in a biased position, and to be released from being latched by said electromagnetic release mechanism;
- said moving contact being movable between a first position and a second position, and wherein, in the first position, said moving contact:
- is connected electrically conductively to a fourth terminal;
- and
- is electrically isolated from a first terminal and from a second terminal and from a third terminal;
- and
- in the second position, said moving contact:
- is connected electrically conductively to the fourth terminal;
- and
- is in electrically conductive contact with the first terminal and with the second terminal and with the third terminal;
- and
- said moving contact of the rapid safety switch, upon being unlatched by the electromagnetic release mechanism, moving from the first position to the second position, and said moving contact of the rapid safety switch being configured to be moved from the second position to the first position by way of said operating-tool interface;
- a first fixed contact assembly connected electrically conductively to the first terminal, a second fixed contact assembly connected electrically conductively to the second terminal, and a third fixed contact assembly connected electrically conductively to the third terminal;
- said moving contact being configured, when transitioning from the first position to the second position, to contact substantially simultaneously said first fixed contact assembly, said second fixed contact assembly, and said third fixed contact assembly, and wherein;
- said moving contact has a first extent lying parallel to moving directions of said moving contact, a second extent, and a third extent;
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- said moving contact along the first extent is formed with a thickening in the third extent, and wherein, in the second position, said first fixed contact assembly, said second fixed contact assembly and said third fixed contact assembly electrically contact said moving contact on said thickening.
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