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US 2006/0124599 A1Published application
Grounding switch having a moveable contact piece
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWolfgang Braun, Manfred Meinherz
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Abstract
A displaceable contact piece of an earthing switch transverses the wall of a housing of a capsule. Said displaceable contact piece is sealed with respect to the capsule housing wall by means of a sealing element. The displaceable contact piece is connected in an electrically conducting manner to the capsule housing wall via the sealing element.
Claims2
A grounding switch comprising a moveable contact piece, which passes through an electrically conductive encapsulating housing wall such that it is sealed by means of a sealing element,
- the moveable contact piece being electrically conductively connected to the encapsulating housing wall via the sealing element in the form of a bellows and being guided in a journal bearing supported on the encapsulating housing,
- wherein
- the moveable contact piece can be driven by means of an electrically insulating handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.