Housing

• US 10,418,790 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2018
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Original Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Inventors: Kunche, Sunil Kumar, Kurapati, Bhaskar Bhumeshwar, Soeten, Roelof, Bielevelt, Willy, de Jong, Johan
• Primary Examiner(s): Ing, Matthew W
• Application Number:
  US16/021,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20190006823A1
• Time in Patent Office: 446 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 71/08 Terminals; Connections
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 9/0207 Adjustable mounting of casings
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/044 Mounting through openings
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/306 Accessories, e.g. windows
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/38 Hinged covers or doors

Abstract

A housing for switchgear includes: first and second parallel side walls connected by a frame, a top wall, and/or a bottom wall; a door extending between the first and second side walls and arranged hingedly on the first side wall, a door hinge axis of the door being parallel to the side walls; and an instrument panel including a front face and third and fourth parallel side walls extending perpendicular from the front face. The door has an opening through which the third and fourth side walls of the instrument panel extend. The instrument panel is hingedly arranged on the door. An instrument panel hinge axis of the instrument panel is parallel to the door hinge axis. The instrument panel hinge axis is positioned adjacent to the second side wall.

Claims

1. A housing comprising:

first and second parallel side walls connected by a frame, a top wall, and a bottom wall;

a door extending between the first and second side walls and arranged hingedly on the first side wall, a door hinge axis of the door being parallel to the side walls; and

an instrument panel comprising a front face and third and fourth parallel side walls extending perpendicular from the front face,

wherein the door has an opening through which the third and fourth side walls of the instrument panel extend,

wherein the instrument panel is hingedly arranged on the door,

wherein an instrument panel hinge axis of the instrument panel is parallel to the door hinge axis, and

wherein the instrument panel hinge axis is positioned on a side of the door closest to the second side wall and the door hinge axis is positioned on a side of the door closest to the first side wall such that the instrument panel hinge axis and the door hinge axis are arranged on opposite sides of the housing when the door is in the closed position.

2. The housing according to claim 1, wherein the instrument panel hinge axis is positioned between the second side wall and the instrument panel.

3. The housing according to claim 1, further comprising a top wall and a bottom wall parallel to the top wall and perpendicular to the first and second side walls.

4. The housing according to claim 1, wherein the instrument panel further comprises an instrument panel top wall and an instrument panel bottom wall parallel to the top wall of the housing and perpendicular to the third and fourth side walls of the instrument panel.

5. The housing according to claim 1, further comprising a latch arranged in the door and configured to lock the door to the second side wall and to block the instrument panel from rotation around the instrument panel hinge axis in a locked position of the latch.

6. The housing according to claim 5, further comprising a bracket arranged on the instrument panel, the bracket comprising a slot,

wherein the latch comprises an elongate element rotatable around a center zone of the elongate element,

wherein, in the locked position of the latch, a first end of the elongate element extends through the slot, and

wherein a second end of the elongate element engages on the second side wall.

7. The housing according to claim 1, wherein a circumferential edge of the front face of the instrument panel envelops in size a circumferential edge of the opening in the door, such that the front face covers the opening in the door.

8. The housing according to claim 1, wherein, in a direction parallel to the door hinge axis, a distance between the door hinge axis and a part of the instrument panel most remote from the door hinge is larger than a distance between the door hinge axis and the second side wall.

9. The housing according to claim 1, wherein the housing is a housing for switchgear.

10. A housing comprising:

first and second parallel side walls connected by a frame, a top wall, and a bottom wall;

a door extending between the first and second side walls and arranged hingedly on the first side wall, a door hinge axis of the door being parallel to the side walls; and

an instrument panel comprising a front face and third and fourth parallel side walls extending perpendicular from the front face,

wherein the door has an opening through which the third and fourth side walls of the instrument panel extend,

wherein the instrument panel is hingedly arranged on the door,

wherein an instrument panel hinge axis of the instrument panel is parallel to the door hinge axis, and

wherein the instrument panel hinge axis is positioned adjacent to the second side wall,

the housing further comprising a latch arranged in the door and configured to lock the door to the second side wall and to block the instrument panel from rotation around the instrument panel hinge axis in a locked position of the latch.

11. The housing according to claim 10, further comprising a bracket arranged on the instrument panel, the bracket comprising a slot,

wherein the latch comprises an elongate element rotatable around a center zone of the elongate element,

wherein, in the locked position of the latch, a first end of the elongate element extends through the slot, and

wherein a second end of the elongate element engages on the second side wall.

12. A housing comprising:

first and second parallel side walls connected by a frame, a top wall, and a bottom wall;

a door extending between the first and second side walls and arranged hingedly on the first side wall, a door hinge axis of the door being parallel to the side walls; and

an instrument panel comprising a front face and third and fourth parallel side walls extending perpendicular from the front face,

wherein the door has an opening through which the third and fourth side walls of the instrument panel extend,

wherein the instrument panel is hingedly arranged on the door,

wherein an instrument panel hinge axis of the instrument panel is parallel to the door hinge axis,

wherein the instrument panel hinge axis is positioned adjacent to the second side wall, and

wherein, in a direction parallel to the door hinge axis, a distance between the door hinge axis and a part of the instrument panel most remote from the door hinge is larger than a distance between the door hinge axis and the second side wall.