Drive Arrangement with a Drive Device of an Electrical Switching Device and Method for Operating the Drive Arrangement
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsChristian Haster, Wojciech Olszewski
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Abstract
A drive configuration with a drive device is connected via a connecting element to a plurality of moving contact makers of a number of switch poles of an electrical switchgear. The drive device can be disconnected from the moving contact makers by way of a clutch.
Claims8
1-7. (canceled)
A drive configuration in an electrical switching device, comprising:
- a drive device;
- at least one connecting element connecting said drive device to a plurality of movable contact pieces of a plurality of switching poles of the electrical switching device;
- and
- a clutch configured to disconnected said drive device from at least one of the contact pieces.
A method for operating a switching device with a plurality of movable contact pieces of a plurality of switching poles and a common drive device for moving the contact pieces, wherein the contact pieces are in their switched-on positions, the method which comprises:
- moving a given one of the contact pieces into a switched-off position thereof;
- retaining the other contact pieces at rest, decoupled from the drive device;
- and
- moving the given contact piece from the switched-off position back into the switched-on position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.