Breaking Device
AssigneeABB AB
InventorsHenrik Breder, Marley Becerra, James Mannekutla, Alessio Bergamini
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Abstract
A breaking device for interrupting current, the breaking device including an electrically conducting outer member; an electrically conducting inner member arranged radially inside the outer member with respect to a breaking axis; and an electrically insulating or semiconducting breaking tube arranged radially between the outer member and the inner member with respect to the breaking axis, the breaking tube being arranged to move along the breaking axis from a starting position to a protruding position in which the breaking tube protrudes from a space within the outer member for interrupting a current between the outer member and the inner member by means of the breaking tube.
Claims19
A breaking device for interrupting current, the breaking device comprising:
- an electrically conducting outer member;
- an electrically conducting inner member arranged radially inside the outer member with respect to a breaking axis;
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- an electrically insulating or semiconducting breaking tube arranged radially between the outer member and the inner member with respect to the breaking axis, the breaking tube being arranged to move along the breaking axis from a starting position to a protruding position in which the breaking tube protrudes from a space within the outer member for interrupting a current between the outer member and the inner member by means of the breaking tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.