Electrical switching device
AssigneeEaton Electrical IP GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsKarsten Gerving, Volker Lang, Johannes Meissner, Ralf Thar
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Abstract
Electrical switching device having a housing, at least two switching chambers within the housing with contacts to interrupt at least one current path, an arc extinguishing device for each switching chamber, and at least one guide channel within the housing, which directs the arc gas exiting the arc extinguishing device towards at least one of the exhaust openings to allow the arc gases to exit the housing, whereby each switching chamber has a guide channel, and whereby the guide channels of the different switching chambers are separated from each other.
Claims10
An electrical switching device, comprising:
- a housing;
- at least two switching chambers within the housing, including contacts configured to interrupt at least one current path;
- an arc extinguishing device for each switching chamber;
- and
- a respective guide channel within the housing for each switching chamber, the respective guide channel being configured to redirect the escaping arc gases towards at least one exhaust opening to allow the arc gases to exit from the housing,
- wherein the respective guide channels of the switching chambers are separated from each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.