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Contact forming material for a vacuum valve
Assignee: Toshiba Corp
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Filing: 1987-01-20
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Granted: 1988-10-11
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Expires: 2007-01-20
Abstract
Abstract A contact forming material for a vacuum valve or vacuum circuit breaker comprising (a) a conductive material consisting of copper and/or silver, and (b) an arc-proof material consisting of chromium, titanium, zirconium, or an alloy thereof wherein the amount of said arc-proof material present in said conductive material matrix is no more than 0.35% by weight. This contact forming material is produced by a process which comprises the steps of compacting arc-proof material powder into a green compact, sintering said green compact to obtain a skeleton of the arc-proof material, infiltrating the voids of said skeleton with a conductive material, and cooling the infiltrated material. The contact forming material can provide contacts for a vacuum valve or vacuum circuit breaker which has excellent characteristics such as temperature rise characteristic and contact resistance characteristic.
Inventors
- 👤 Tsutomu Okutomi
- 👤 Seishi Chiba
- 👤 Mikio Okawa
- 👤 Tadaaki Sekiguchi
- 👤 Hiroshi Endo
- 👤 Tsutomu Yamashita
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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2026-11-09 08:11
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01H; H01H1/00; H01H1/02; H01H1/0203; H01H1/0206; C; C22; C22C; C22C32/00; C22C32/001; C22C32/0015; C22C32/0021; H01H33/00; H01H33/60; H01H33/66; H01H33/664
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
96 words
A contact forming material for a vacuum valve or vacuum circuit breaker comprising: (a) a conductive material matrix, consisting of at least one of the group consisting of copper, silver and mixtures thereof; and (b) an arc-proof material consisting of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, titanium, and zirconium, and alloys of these metals with at least one other metal, wherein the amount of said arc-proof material in the form of a solid solution present in said conductive material matrix is no more than 0.35% by weight of the conductive material.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
96 words
A contact forming material for a vacuum valve or vacuum circuit breaker comprising: (a) a conductive material matrix, consisting of at least one of the group consisting of copper, silver and mixtures thereof; and (b) an arc-proof material consisting of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, titanium, and zirconium, and alloys of these metals with at least one other metal, wherein the amount of said arc-proof material in the form of a solid solution present in said conductive material matrix is no more than 0.35% by weight of the conductive material.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
40 words
The material according to claim 1, wherein the amount of said arc-proof material in the form of a solid solution present in the matrix of said conductive material matrix is from 0.01% to 0.35% by weight of the conductive material.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
40 words
The material according to claim 1, wherein said arc-proof material comprises a chromium-base alloy containing no more than 50% by weight of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of iron and cobalt, and the balance being chromium.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
43 words
The material according to claim 3, wherein a new material of the chromium contains no more than 10 ppm of aluminum, no more than 20 ppm of silicon, no more than 10 ppm of vanadium, and no more than 10 ppm of calcium.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
43 words
The material according to claim 1, wherein said arc-proof material comprises a chromium-base alloy containing no more than 50% by weight of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, niobium and tantalum, and the balance being chromium.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
The material according to claim 5, wherein the chromium raw material contains no more than 10 ppm of aluminum, no more than 20 ppm of silicon, and no more than 10 ppm of calcium.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
29 words
The material according to claim 1, wherein the total amount of arc-proof material present in said contact forming material ranges from 20-80% by weight of the contact forming material.
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