SWITCH MODULE OF BUILT-IN ANTI-SURGE DISCONNECTION STRUCTURE

• US 20160233041A1
• Filed: 02/09/2015
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: I-Ying Wang, Yi-Hsiang Wang
• Original Assignee: Yi-Hsiang Wang
• Inventors: WANG, YI-HSIANG, WANG, I-YING
• Application Number:
  US14/617,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20160233041A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 13/14 Operating parts, e.g. push-button
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2085/0283 Structural association with a semiconductor device
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2223/00 Casings
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 23/105 Fuses mounted on, or constituting the movable part of, the switch
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 61/02 wherein the thermally-sensitive member is heated indirectly, e.g. resistively, inductively
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 89/04 Combination of a thermally actuated switch with a manually operated switch

Abstract

A switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure mainly comprises an overcurrent protection switch and has an anti-surge and disconnection structure ingeniously built inside the heat-resisting housing. The present invention comprises at least one spring, at least one band, at least one metal oxide varistor, at least one thermo-sensitive piece, and a pushing rod. When the first connecting point is contacting the second connecting point and an overvoltage occurs, the temperature of the metal oxide varistor would suddenly rise up to a pre-determined degree, causing the thermo-sensitive piece to melt, loosening the band, counterbalancing the compressing force on the spring and further displacing the pushing rod upwardly, therefore forcing the first connecting point detaching from the second connecting point and turning off the switch instantly without having the binary alloy conductive plate deformed or being displaced, so as to ensure more of electricity safety.

Claims

1. A switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure, comprising:

a housing with a press button at the top thereof, a first conductive plate arranged at the lower section thereof, a second conductive plate and a third conductive plate, where said first conductive plate is connected to a binary alloy conductive plate that has a spring leaf and a first connecting point in the middle section thereof, and said second conductive plate has a second connecting point on the surface of the upper section thereof corresponding to said first connecting point;

a moving rod linking up the bottom of said press button with one end and a movable end of said binary alloy conductive plate with the other end, whereby the press button would press said binary alloy conductive plate and the spring leaf thereon to connect the first connecting point with the second connecting point, turning on the switch, and when current overload occurs, the binary alloy conductive plate would deform due to high temperature, detaching said first connecting point on the spring leaf from the second connecting point, thus turning off the switch, so as to form an overcurrent protection switch;

wherein

an anti-surge disconnection structure is built inside the housing under the spring leaf, including;

at least one metal oxide varistor with a top surface and a bottom surface, and a set of conductive elements;

a spring disposed on either surface of the metal oxide varistor;

a band having a first end and a second end arranged correspondingly to compress the spring on the metal oxide varistor;

at least one thermo-sensitive piece that is solid colloid to be adhered on the surface of the metal oxide varistor and to bond the first end and the second end for girdling and fixing the spring;

a pushing rod having the upper end thereof under the bottom of the spring leaf;

whereby when the first connecting point is contacting the second connecting point and an overvoltage occurs, the temperature of said metal oxide varistor would suddenly rise up to a pre-determined degree and the thermo-sensitive piece would melt, then the band would loosen, counterbalancing the compressing force on the spring and further displacing the pushing rod upwardly, therefore forcing the first connecting point detaching from the second connecting point and turning off the switch without having the binary alloy conductive plate deformed or being displaced.

2. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure a s claimed in claim 1, wherein the thermos-sensitive is made of non-metal thermo-sensitive materials or metal compounds that are fast-acting in low temperature.

3. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 2, wherein the band and the thermo-sensitive piece are made of either metal or non-metal materials.

4. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 2, wherein the band and the thermo-sensitive piece are made of the same thermo-sensitive materials.

5. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein a vertical holding surface and a horizontal positioning surface are arranged inside the housing for the upper section of the second conductive plate to be disposed on the positioning surface.

6. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 5, wherein the upper section of the second conductive plate has a gap near the side of the second connecting point, and the positioning surface has a passage arranged corresponding to the gap for the pushing rod to pass through.

7. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the housing has two corresponding narrow grooves arranged between the first and second conductive plates for both sides of the metal oxide varistor to be engaged in position.

8. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pushing rod has a bottom to be disposed against the top of the spring.

9. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein there is one metal oxide varistor, and a thermo-sensitive piece is fixing a first end and a second end of a band to be tightly disposed on the surface of the metal oxide varistor.

10. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein there are two metal oxide varistors, and a thermo-sensitive piece is fixing a first end and a second end of a band to be disposed in-between.

11. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein there are three metal oxide varistors and two thermo-sensitive pieces;

one of the thermo-sensitive pieces is fixing a first end of a band between the first and second metal oxide varistors, and the other thermo-sensitive piece is fixing a second end of the band between the second and the third metal oxide varistors.

12. The switch module of built-in anti-surge disconnection structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein on the outside, the housing further includes a display unit showing the status of the switch module, a fourth conductive plate as the negative electrode for output, and a fifth conductive plate as the terrestrial pole for the conductive element of the metal oxide varistor to connect.