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Contact assembly for low-voltage circuit breakers with a two-arm contact lever
Assignee: Siemens AG
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Filing: 1985-08-20
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Granted: 1987-03-10
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Expires: 2005-08-20
Abstract
Abstract A contact assembly is provided for current-limiting low-voltage circuit breakers. The contact assembly has a two-armed contact lever swivel-mounted on a central bearing pin whose lever arms are equipped at their ends with contact pieces. The contact lever is equipped with a slot for mounting on the bearing pin whose longitudinal axis extends approximately at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of contact lever. The contact lever has a stop extending at approximately a right angle to its longitudinal axis for a catch swivel-mounted on the bearing pin. The contact forces on both lever arms cannot be influenced by the swivel mount or by the drive mechanism of the contact lever, but are determined exclusively by the biasing springs.
Inventors
- 👤 Bernhard Preuss
- 👤 Karl-Heinz Manthe
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-07 20:45
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01H; H01H1/00; H01H1/12; H01H1/14; H01H1/32; H01H1/20; H01H1/2041; H01H1/205; H01H73/00; H01H73/02; H01H73/04; H01H73/045; H01H1/22; H01H1/221; H01H2001/223
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
146 words
A contact assembly for a low-voltage circuit breaker having a two-armed contact lever and being equipped with a contact piece at each end on opposite facing sides of a longitudinal axis and each lever arm being assigned a biasing spring, comprising: a swivel mount for the contact lever having a fixed bearing pin for providing an axis of rotation and a slot in the contact arm enclosing the bearing pin, the longitudinal axis of the slot extending approximately at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the contact lever, and said contact lever having at least one stop surface extending approximately at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the contact lever and being matable with a catch, the catch being an integral component of a switching shaft which is swivel-mounted on the bearing pin for moving the contact lever in the switch-off direction.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
146 words
A contact assembly for a low-voltage circuit breaker having a two-armed contact lever and being equipped with a contact piece at each end on opposite facing sides of a longitudinal axis and each lever arm being assigned a biasing spring, comprising: a swivel mount for the contact lever having a fixed bearing pin for providing an axis of rotation and a slot in the contact arm enclosing the bearing pin, the longitudinal axis of the slot extending approximately at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the contact lever, and said contact lever having at least one stop surface extending approximately at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the contact lever and being matable with a catch, the catch being an integral component of a switching shaft which is swivel-mounted on the bearing pin for moving the contact lever in the switch-off direction.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
A contact assembly in accordance with claim 1, wherein the contact lever includes two stop surfaces arranged symmetrically about its center and the switching shaft includes two catches for engaging the stop surfaces.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
38 words
A contact assembly in accordance with claim 1, wherein the catch faces the contact lever which has adequate play so that the contact lever can move into an open position while the catch remains in an unchanged position.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
91 words
A contact assembly in accordance with claim 1, wherein each biasing spring is a torsion spring which encloses the bearing pin and which has one arm supporting itself on a facing surface of the switching shaft and another arm supporting itself against the contact lever and wherein the two torsion springs are arranged on both sides of the contact lever, each spring being mounted in a pocket of a housing supporting the contact assembly with pocket partitioning wall parts restricting slots which permit passage of the arms of the contact lever.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
A contact assembly in accordance with claim 4, wherein one end of each of the torsion springs engages a section of a respective contact lever inside of the pocket.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
47 words
A contact assembly in accordance with claim 4, wherein the contact lever has a central portion with two arcuate sections from each of which a respective lever arm extends, each of said arcuate sections facing in the direction of the contact piece of said respective lever arm.
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