Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gas-insulated load break switch and switchgear comprising a gas-insulated load break switch
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Application No.: US16626199Application Date: 2018-06-12
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Publication No.: US10991528B2Publication Date: 2021-04-27
- Inventor: Nitesh Ranjan , Elham Attar , Jan Carstensen , Magne Saxegaard , Martin Kristoffersen , Ståle Talmo , Stanley Lohne , Michael Schwinne , Martin Seeger
- Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
- Applicant Address: CH Baden
- Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
- Current Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Baden
- Agency: Whitmyer IP Group LLC
- Priority: EP17178561 20170629
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/065480 WO 20180612
- International Announcement: WO2019/001946 WO 20190103
- Main IPC: H01H33/12
- IPC: H01H33/12 ; H01H33/22 ; H01H33/56 ; H01H33/70 ; H01H33/91

Abstract:
A load-break switch has a housing holding insulation gas at ambient pressure; a first main contact and a second main contact being movable relative to each other in an axial direction of the switch; a first arcing contact and a second arcing contact being movable relative to each other in the axial direction and defining an arcing region where an arc is formed during a current breaking operation, wherein the arcing region is located radially inward from the first main contact; a pressurizing system pressurizing a quenching gas during the current breaking operation; and a nozzle system arranged to blow the pressurized quenching gas onto the arc. The first main contact includes at least one pressure release opening to allow gas flow in a radial outward direction. A total area of the pressure release opening suppresses a reduction of gas flow out of the pressure release opening.
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