Drawer-type circuit interrupter

• US 5,335,140 A
• Filed: 02/22/1993
• Issued: 08/02/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Terasaki Denki Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Terasaki Denki Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Endo, Takeshi, Ogawa, Hirofumi, Kamino, Toshihide, Sonoda, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Thompson, Gregory D.
• Application Number:
  US08/020,360
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 200/50 AA, 335/132, 335/202, 361/336-342
• US Class Current: 361/608
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 73/045 Bridging contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 11/04 Isolating-contacts, e.g. mountings or shieldings

Abstract

A drawer-type circuit interrupter is constructed with a first contact member having an open-and-close contact member, an open-and-close operation mechanism for operating said first contact member, an interrupter main body having a second contact member and a mounting frame having the external line contact terminals, wherein the second contact member is a movable-type provided with an open-and-close contact portion that is contactable with and separable from the first contact member on the one end thereof and a drawer contact member that contacts with an external line contact terminal on the other end thereof, and a compression spring for urging the second contact member into a direction for contacting the external line contact terminal on the other end of the second contact member. When the interrupter body is in the connected position the drawer contact portion on the other end of said second contact member and said external line contact terminal are into contact. The second contacting member and the external line connecting terminal can be constituted to contact each other at a plurality of points, for example two, to improve contact and interruption performance.

Claims

1. A drawer-type circuit interrupter constructed with an interrupter body (2) having a first contact member (8, 35, 51) having an open-and-close contact portion (24, 34, 52), an open-and-close operation mechanism (6) for operating said first contact member (8, 35, 51) and at least one second contact member (14, 30, 45, 100, 105, 106, 108), and a mounting frame (1) having external line connect terminals (4, 33, 103, 107, 109), said circuit interrupter characterized in that the second contact member (14, 30, 45, 100, 105, 106, 108) is a movable-type provided with an open-and-close contact portion (21, 48) that is contactable with and separable from the first contact member (8, 35, 51) on one end thereof and a drawer contact portion (20, 31, 49) contactable with and separable from an external line connect terminal (4, 33, 103, 107, 109) on the other end thereof, and further in that when the interrupter body (2) is in a connected position the drawer contact portion (20, 31, 49) on the other end of said second contact member (14, 30, 45, 100, 105, 106, 108) contacts an external line connect terminal (4, 33, 103, 107, 109).

2. The drawer-type circuit interrupter as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second contact member (14, 30, 45, 100, 105, 106, 108) is forced by a compression spring (15, 32, 50, 104) into contact with external line connect terminal (4, 33, 103, 107, 109) at said other end of the second contact member (14, 30, 45, 100, 105, 106, 108).

3. The drawer-type circuit interrupter as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein said second contact member (14, 30, 100, 105, 106, 108) is loosely supported and is forced by a compression spring (16) into contact with said first contact member (8, 35) at said open-and-close contact portion (21) thereof.

4. The drawer-type circuit interrupter as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the second contact member (45, 105, 106, 108) is rotatably mounted in the vicinity of the open-and-close contact portion (48) at said one end, and said first contact member (51) is forced by a compression spring (56) into contact with said one end of the second contact member (45, 105, 106, 108).

5. The drawer-type circuit interrupter as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the second contact member contacts (14, 30, 45, 100, 105, 106, 108) an external line connect terminal (4, 33, 103, 107, 109) are at a plurality of points in the connected position.

6. The drawer-type circuit interrupter as claimed in claim 5, wherein said second contact member (100, 108) includes a semi-circular arc shaped protrusion adapted to fit with a concave portion of the external line connect terminal (103, 107, 109) which it contacts.