Electromagnetic switching device

• US 9,076,620 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LSIS Co. Ltd. (LS Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LSIS Co. Ltd. (LS Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Sang Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Talpalatski, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US14/078,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20140232492A1
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: 335/126, 335/131
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 50/163 Details concerning air-gaps, e.g. anti-remanence, damping, anti-corrosion
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 50/305 damping vibration due to functional movement of armature in air-gap H01H50/163
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 50/34 Means for adjusting limits of movement; Mechanical means for adjusting returning force

Abstract

Disclosed is an electromagnetic device. The electromagnetic switching device includes: a shaft coupled with a movable contact point to reciprocate up and down; and an elastic member coupled with a bottom end of the shaft, wherein a vertical volume of the elastic member expands as a temperature is increased.

Claims

1. An electromagnetic switching device comprising:

a shaft coupled with a movable contact point such that the shaft moves up and down, the shaft comprising a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion below the large diameter portion;

an elastic member coupled with a bottom end of the shaft and having an asymmetric bottom surface;

a fixed core surrounding an outer side of the shaft, the fixed core comprising an upper fixed core that surrounds an outer side of the large diameter portion of the shaft and a lower fixed core vertically spaced apart from the upper fixed core; and

a movable core at an outer side of the small diameter portion of and coupled with the outer side of the shaft,

wherein a vertical volume of the elastic member expands as temperature is increased.

2. The electromagnetic switching device of claim 1, further comprising:

an elastic member receiving part at a lower portion of the shaft, wherein the elastic member is received in the elastic member receiving part such that a top end of the elastic member makes contact with a top surface of the elastic member receiving part to limit volume expansion of the elastic member in an upward direction.

3. The electromagnetic switching device of claim 1, wherein the elastic member comprises rubber.

4. The electromagnetic switching device of claim 2, wherein:

the elastic member receiving part comprises a space formed by the bottom end of the shaft and an inner peripheral surface of the movable core; and

a top end of the elastic member is partially inserted into the elastic member receiving part.

5. The electromagnetic switching device of claim 4, further comprising a reversed T-shape supporter coupled with the elastic member receiving part such that a bottom surface of the elastic member receiving part provides a bottom surface of the T-shape supporter.