Electric device and method for manufacturing electric device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10033169-B2
Application number	US-201615550085-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2016
Priority date	May 26, 2015
Publication date	Jul 24, 2018
Grant date	Jul 24, 2018

Abstract

A first opposing surface inclination angle of a protruding first solid insulating material of a first high-voltage device is smaller than a second opposing surface inclination angle of a dented second solid insulating material of a second high-voltage device. A hollow truncated-cone flexible insulating material of which the thickness before insertion between the first high-voltage device and the second high-voltage device is the same at every part and the elasticity modulus gradually increases from a small-diameter side toward a large-diameter side, or a hollow truncated-cone flexible insulating material of which the thickness before insertion gradually increases from a small-diameter side toward a large-diameter side and the elasticity modulus is the same at every part, is compressed and sandwiched between the first solid insulating material and the second solid insulating material.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric device comprising a first high-voltage device and a second high-voltage device that are connected to each other via a flexible insulating material, wherein
the first high-voltage device includes a first conductor provided at a center thereof, and a first solid insulating material provided around an outer circumference of the first conductor and insulating the first conductor,
the second high-voltage device includes a second conductor provided at a center thereof, and a second solid insulating material provided around an outer circumference of the second conductor and insulating the second conductor,
the first conductor and the second conductor are electrically conductive to each other,
the first solid insulating material has a shape having a side wall surface of a truncated cone such that a first opposing surface thereof which is a surface opposed to the second solid insulating material protrudes in an axial direction,
the second solid insulating material has a shape having a side wall surface of a truncated cone such that a second opposing surface thereof which is a surface opposed to the first solid insulating material is dented in the axial direction,
a first opposing surface inclination angle which is an interior angle formed by the first opposing surface and a virtual line that is parallel with the axial direction and extends toward a counter-protrusion side from the first opposing surface, is smaller than a second opposing surface inclination angle which is an interior angle formed by the second opposing surface and a virtual line that is parallel with the axial direction and extends toward a counter-dented side from the second opposing surface,
the flexible insulating material has a hollow truncated-cone shape such that an inner diameter and an outer diameter thereof at an end on one side are respectively greater than those at an end on another side, the flexible insulating material having an inner circumferential side surface in contact with the first opposing surface and having an outer circumferential side surface in contact with the second opposing surface,
when a thickness of the flexible insulating material that has not yet been inserted between the first high-voltage device and the second high-voltage device is the same at every part, an elasticity modulus of the flexible insulating material gradually increases from a small-diameter side toward a large-diameter side, and
when the thickness of the flexible insulating material that has not yet been inserted between the first high-voltage device and the second high-voltage device gradually increases from the small-diameter side toward the large-diameter side, the elasticity modulus of the flexible insulating material is the same at every part.

2. An electric device comprising a first high-voltage device and a second high-voltage device that are connected to each other via a flexible insulating material, wherein
the first high-voltage device includes a first conductor provided at a center thereof, and a first solid insulating material provided around an outer circumference of the first conductor and insulating the first conductor,
the second high-voltage device includes a second conductor provided at a center thereof, and a second solid insulating material provided around an outer circumference of the second conductor and insulating the second conductor,
the first conductor and the second conductor are electrically conductive to each other,
the first solid insulating material has a shape having a side wall surface of a truncated cone such that a first opposing surface thereof which is a surface opposed to the second solid insulating material protrudes in an axial direction,
the second solid insulating material has a shape having a side wall surface of a truncated cone such that a second opposing surface thereof which is a surface opposed to the first solid insulating material is dented in the axial direction,
the flexible insulating material has a hollow truncated-cone shape such that an inner diameter and an outer diameter thereof at an end on one side are respectively greater than those at an end on another side, the flexible insulating material having an inner circumferential side surface in contact with the first opposing surface and having an outer circumferential side surface in contact with the second opposing surface,
when a first opposing surface inclination angle which is an interior angle formed by the first opposing surface and a virtual line that is parallel with the axial direction and extends toward a counter-protrusion side from the first opposing surface, is equal to a second opposing surface inclination angle which is an interior angle formed by the second opposing surface and a virtual line that is parallel with the axial direction and extends toward a counter-dented side from the second opposing surface, a thickness of the flexible insulating material that has not yet been inserted between the first high-voltage device and the second high-voltage device gradually increases from a large-diameter side toward a small-diameter side, and an elasticity modulus of the flexible insulating material gradually decreases from the large-diameter side toward the small-diameter side, and
when the first opposing surface inclination angle is greater than the second opposing surface inclination angle, the thickness of the flexible insulating material that has not yet been inserted between the first high-voltage device and the second high-voltage device gradually increases from the large-diameter side toward the small-diameter side, and the elasticity modulus of the flexible insulating material is the same at every part.

3. A method for manufacturing an electric device, comprising:
providing a first high-voltage device and a second high-voltage device to be connected to each other via a flexible insulating material, the first high-voltage device including a first conductor provided at a center thereof and a first solid insulating material provided around the outer circumference of the first conductor and insulating the first conductor, the second high-voltage device including a second conductor provided at a center thereof and a second solid insulating material provided around an outer circumference of the second conductor and insulating the second conductor,
providing the first solid insulating material with a shape having a side wall surface of a truncated cone such that a first opposing surface thereof which is a surface opposed to the second solid insulating material protrudes in an axial direction,
providing the second solid insulating material with a shape having a side wall surface of a truncated cone such that a second opposing surface thereof which is a surface opposed to the first solid insulating material is dented in the axial direction,
providing a first opposing surface inclination angle which is an interior angle formed by the first opposing surface and a virtual line that is parallel with the axial direction and extends toward a counter-protrusion side from the first opposing surface, to be smaller than a second opposing surface inclination angle which is an interior angle formed by the second opposing surface and a virtual line that is parallel with the axial direction and extends toward a counter-dented side from the second opposing surface,
providing the flexible insulating material with a hollow truncated-cone shape in which an inner diameter and an outer diameter thereof at an end on one side are respectively greater than those at an end on another side,
designing the flexible insulating material such that a thickness thereof is the same at every part and an elasticity modulus thereof gradually increases from a small-diameter side toward a large-diameter side, or such that the thickness thereof gradually increases from the smal

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Umemoto Takahiro
• Otake Yasutomo
• Yoshimura Manabu
• Nakada Katsushi

Classifications

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