Medium-voltage electric distribution cubicle

• US 10,643,809 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2009
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Romanet-Perroux, Philippe, Cabaret, Bertrand, Henon, Albin, Nereau, Jean-Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Amaya, Carlos
• Application Number:
  US12/998,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20110232959A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,809 Days
• Field of Search: 307112, 307125, 174 6, 174520
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 3/3047 adapted for operation of a three-position switch, e.g. on-off-earth
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 31/003 Earthing switches H01H31/02 - H01H31/26 take precedence; contact made by liquid jet H01H29/32; for substations H02B1/16, H02B5/01; for withdrawable switchgear H02B11/28; for gas-insulated switchgear H02B13/075
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 31/10 for interlocking two or more switches
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 33/6661 Combination with other type of switch, e.g. for load break switches H01H33/143, H01H33/6662 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/24 Circuit arrangements for boards or switchyards
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 13/00 Arrangement of switchgear in which switches are enclosed in, or structurally associated with, a casing, e.g. cubicle switchgear having carriage withdrawable for isolation H02B11/00

Abstract

A medium-voltage electric distribution cubicle for fitting between two parts of an electric circuit to cause current flow, current interruption, circuit disconnection, and grounding. This cubicle includes a vacuum break circuit breaker-disconnector or vacuum break switch-disconnector connected in series with a selector switch having at least two positions, namely, a current flow position and a grounding position.

Claims

1. A medium-voltage electric distribution cubicle for connection between two parts of an electric circuit and for performing at least, respectively, current flow between the parts, current interruption between said two parts, circuit disconnection, and grounding of one of said parts, comprising:

a vacuum break circuit breaker-disconnector or vacuum break switch-disconnector, which comprises a vacuum cartridge,

a selector switch having at least three positions, namely, an open position for configured for cable testing, a current flow position and a grounding position for one of said parts of an electric circuit, said selector switch connected in series with said vacuum break circuit breaker-disconnector or switch-disconnector for electrical connection/disconnection line-side to a busbar, and load-side to said selector switch, which is for electrical connection load-side to at least one cable,

a closed position preventer preventing the selector switch from leaving the closed position if the selector switch is in the closed position, and

a closing preventer preventing closing of the selector switch if the selector switch is grounded,

whereby said cubicle is capable of being set in any one of three different functional positions in an electric circuit, namely;

a closed position for permitting current flow wherein the vacuum break circuit breaker-disconnector or switch-disconnector and the selector switch are in the closed position;

a disconnected position wherein the vacuum break circuit breaker-disconnector or switch-disconnector is in a disconnection position and the selector switch is in the current flow position, thereby enabling independent operation of two parts of an electric circuit; and

a grounded position wherein the vacuum break circuit breaker-disconnector or switch-disconnector is in a disconnection position and

the selector switch is in the grounding position thus permitting an operation to be safely performed on the load side of an electric circuit.

2. The electric distribution cubicle according to claim 1, wherein the selector switch is a gas-break selector switch.

3. The electric distribution cubicle according to claim 1 wherein, for performing cable testing, the selector switch comprises a bushing or fixed part of a test connector connected on the cable side, or a bushing or fixed part of a test connector connected to a stationary contact of the selector switch on the busbar side.

4. The electric distribution cubicle according to claim 1, which comprises a vacuum break circuit breaker-disconnector.

5. The electric distribution cubicle according to claim 2 wherein, for performing cable testing, the selector switch comprises a bushing or fixed part of a test connector connected on the cable side, or a bushing or fixed part of a test connector connected to a stationary contact of the selector switch on the busbar side.