Hermetically sealed electromagnetic contactor

Abstract

A hermetically sealed electromagnetic contactor includes a pair of fixed contact pieces having fixed contacts, a movable contact piece having a pair of movable contacts and capable of coming into contact with and being separated from the fixed contacts of the pair of fixed contact pieces, an electromagnet unit configured to drive the movable contact piece, a hermetically sealed container configured to house the pair of fixed contact pieces, the movable contact piece, and the electromagnet unit in the same space in a hermetically sealed manner and being filled with arc-extinguishing gas, and two pairs of arc-extinguishing permanent magnets arranged inside the hermetically sealed container and configured to stretch arcs generated between the fixed contacts of the pair of fixed contact pieces and the pair of movable contacts of the movable contact piece.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.