Electrode composition for vacuum switch
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Yamanaka, Yasushi Takeya, Mitsumasa Yorita, Toshiaki Horiuchi, Kouichi Inagaki, Eizo Naya, Michinosuke Demizu, Mitsuhiro Okumura
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Abstract
The disclosed electrode composition for a vacuum switch comprises copper, as a principal ingredient, a low melting point metal such as Bi, Pb, In, Li, Sn or any of their alloys, in a content not exceeding 20% by weight, a first additional metal such as Te, Sb, La, Mg or any of their alloys and a refractory metal such as Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Ti, W or any of their alloys in a content less than 40% by weight.
Claims2
An electrode for a vacuum switch, said electrode being produced by subjecting a composition consisting essentially of:
- (a) not more than 20% by weight of at least one low melting point metal selected from the group consisting of bismuth (Bi), lead (Pb), indium (In), lithium (Li), tin (Sn) and alloys thereof;
- (b) not more than 10% by weight of a metal capable of forming an alloy with said low melting point metal at a temperature not less than the melting point of said low melting point metal, and being alloyable with copper at a temperature not higher than the melting point of said alloy, selected from the group consisting of tellurium (Te), antimony (Sb), lanthanum (La), magnesium (Mg) and alloys thereof;
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- (c) the balance being copper (Cu)
- to a powder metallurgical technique which comprises mixing components (a), (b) and (c) in powder form, molding the resultant mixture into a predetermined electrode shape and sintering the resultant shape in a furnace at a temperature not higher than the melting point of copper in an atmosphere of substantially pure hydrogen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.