Electric switching arrangement and mounting method
AssigneeEaton Industries GmbH
InventorsVolker Heins, Hartwig Stammberger, Bogdan Zabrocki, Markus Brich
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Abstract
An electric switching arrangement disposable in an arcing chamber, the electric switching arrangement including a busbar having a termination surface, a moving contact, a fixed contact carrier having a contact facing carrier, and a fixed contact disposed on the fixed contact carrier at a distance from the termination surface and coupled to the termination surface. The electric switching arrangement further including a ferromagnetic switch arc splitter non-positively disposed on the fixed contact carrier.
Claims8
An electric switching arrangement disposable in an arcing chamber, the electric switching arrangement comprising:
- a busbar having a termination surface;
- a moving contact;
- a fixed contact carrier having a contact facing carrier;
- a fixed contact disposed on the fixed contact carrier at a distance from the termination surface and electrically coupled to the termination surface;
- and
- a ferromagnetic switch arc splitter disposed on the fixed contact carrier,
- wherein the arc splitter includes an elongated base element having a mounting window, at least one baffle plate, and a discharge horn, the at least one baffle plate being disposed at a front portion of the elongated base element at a distance from the termination surface and the discharge horn being disposed at a rear portion of the elongated base element in a vicinity of the termination surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.