Circuit breaker with improved delay
AssigneeAirpax Electronics Incorporated
InventorsGeorge S. Harper, Lyal N. Merriken
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Abstract
Disclosed is a magnetic circuit breaker having improved delay characteristics and particularly improved pulse tolerance. The trip coil of the breaker is spaced from the magnetic pole piece of a delay tube by a non-conductive, non-magnetic gap and the delay core is elongated to extend in its normal biased position through the electrical center of the coil. An inertia wheel is mechanically coupled to the trip armature to further increase pulse tolerance so as to reduce nuisance tripping in the presence of high but very short term overcurrents.
Claims10
A circuit breaker comprising a pair of electrical contacts, a handle, a collapsible toggle coupling said handle to one of said contacts, a movable armature having a portion adapted to engage and trip said toggle, a frame, a hollow delay tube carried by said frame and having a magnetic pole piece at one end, a magnetic core movable in said delay tube, spring means in said tube normally biasing said core away from said pole piece, and a trip coil surrounding a portion of said trip tube, said coil being spaced from the plane of the near end of said pole piece by a nonconductive, nonmagnetic gap having a length of from about one-fifteenth to about one-sixth the overall interior length of said delay tube.
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