Magnet armature, contactor having a magnetic armature, and method for switching a contactor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10804059-B2
Application number	US-201615744328-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2016
Priority date	Jul 23, 2015
Publication date	Oct 13, 2020
Grant date	Oct 13, 2020

Abstract

A microphone having a housing that includes a bottom part and an upper part, and a transducer element arranged in the housing and which is electrically and mechanically connected to the bottom part. For stress-free mounting of the transducer element, a flexible connecting element is proposed, which is pliable and/or compressible, is arranged between the transducer element and the upper part, and connects the transducer element to the upper part. The connecting element includes a plastic, in which gas bubbles are distributed, the gas bubbles having a volume fraction of between 50 and 98% in the connecting element.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A magnet armature, comprising
a first spring element with a first stiffness k 1 ,
a second spring element with a second stiffness k 2 ,
a bush between the first spring element and the second spring element,
a cylindrical section,
an inoperative position, an end position and a central position between the inoperative position and the end position,

wherein
the first spring element is provided to be elastically deformed during the movement from the inoperative position to the central position, but not during the movement from the central position to the end position,
the second spring element is provided to be elastically deformed during the movement from the central position to the end position, but not during the movement from the inoperative position to the central position,
the cylindrical section has a first subsection with a first diameter, a second subsection with a second diameter and a step between the two subsections,
the step between the two subsections constitutes a stop for the bush.

2. The magnet armature according to claim 1 , wherein the first spring element and the second spring element are arranged in series.

3. The magnet armature according to claim 1 ,
further comprising a cylindrical section which the first spring element, the bush and the second spring element coaxially surround, wherein
the end of the first spring element which faces the bush is provided to move relative to the cylindrical section during the movement from the inoperative position to the central position, but not during the movement from the central position to the end position,
the bush and that end of the second spring element which faces the bush are provided to move relative to the cylindrical section during the movement from the central position to the end position, but not during the movement from the inoperative position to the central position.

4. The magnet armature according to claim 1 , wherein
a movement from the inoperative position to the end position corresponds to a displacement by a distance h=h 1 +h 2 which is between 1.5 and 2.5 mm long, and
the movement from the inoperative position to the central position constitutes a displacement by h 1 , and
the movement from the central position to the end position constitutes a displacement by h 2 .

5. The magnet armature according to claim 1 , wherein a movement from the inoperative position to the central position corresponds to a displacement by a distance h 1 which lies in an interval of between 0.4 times and 0.6 times the distance h=h 1 +h 2 of the displacement from the inoperative position to the end position, wherein the movement from the central position to the end position constitutes a displacement by h 2 .

6. The magnet armature according to claim 1 , wherein 3.3≤k 2 /k 1 ≤3.6.

7. The magnet armature according to claim 1 , wherein 0.5 N/mm≤k 1 ≤0.9 N/mm and 2.3 N/mm≤k 2 ≤2.7 N/mm.

8. The magnet armature according to claim 1 , further comprising
a contact stamp and a magnetizable material, wherein
the contact stamp comprises an electrically conductive material and, in its end position, is provided to interconnect two electrical contacts, and
the magnetizable material comprises iron, cobalt or nickel.

9. The magnet armature according to claim 1 , wherein
the bush touches the stop during the movement from the inoperative position to the central position, and
the bush does not touch the stop during the movement from the central position to the end position.

10. The magnet armature according to claim 9 , wherein
the bush decouples the two springs at least in one position.

11. A contactor (SCH), comprising
a magnet armature according to claim 1 having,
a yoke, a guide with a stop

wherein
the magnet armature and the yoke form an electromagnetic actuator which is provided to move the magnet armature relative to the yoke and to the guide,
the bush does not touch the stop in positions between the inoperative position and the central position,
the bush touches the stop in positions between the central position and the end position.

12. The contactor according to claim 11 , wherein
the guide has a second stop,
the second stop constitutes a limit for the movement of the magnet armature, and
the magnet armature, in its inoperative position, touches the second stop.

13. The magnet armature according to claim 2 , wherein
a movement from the inoperative position to the end position corresponds to a displacement by a distance h=h 1 +h 2 which is between 1.5 and 2.5 mm long, and
the movement from the inoperative position to the central position constitutes a displacement by h 1 , and
the movement from the central position to the end position constitutes a displacement by h 2 .

14. The magnet armature according to claim 2 , wherein a movement from the inoperative position to the central position corresponds to a displacement by a distance h 1 which lies in an interval of between 0.4 times and 0.6 times the distance h=h 1 +h 2 of the displacement from the inoperative position to the end position, wherein the movement from the central position to the end position constitutes a displacement by h 2 .

15. The magnet armature according to claim 2 , further comprising
a contact stamp and a magnetizable material,

wherein
the contact stamp comprises an electrically conductive material and, in its end position, is provided to interconnect two electrical contacts, and
the magnetizable material comprises iron, cobalt or nickel.

16. A method for switching an electromagnetic contactor having a solenoid, a contact stamp, a first spring element and a second spring element, a bush between the first spring element and the second spring element, and a cylindrical section having a first subsection with a first diameter, a second subsection with a second diameter and a step between the two subsections constituting a stop for the bush, the method comprising the steps of:
activating the solenoid in an inoperative position,
accelerating the contact stamp against the restoring force of the first spring element up to a central position, thereby elastically deforming the first spring element during the movement from the inoperative position to the central position, but not during the movement from the central position to the end position,
moving the contact stamp against the restoring force of the second spring element up to an end position, thereby elastically deforming the second spring element during the movement from the central position to the end position, but not during the movement from the inoperative position to the central position, the central position being between the inoperative position and the end position.

Assignees

• Epcos Ag

Inventors

• Westebbe Thomas
• Werner Frank
• Bobert Peter

Classifications

• H01H50/64

  Driving arrangements between movable part of magnetic circuit and contact (structurally associated with contact spring sets H01H50/58) · CPC title

• H01H50/20 Primary

  movable inside coil and substantially lengthwise with respect to axis thereof; movable coaxially with respect to coil · CPC title

• H01H50/645

  intermediate part making a resilient or flexible connection (H01H50/66 - H01H50/74 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01H50/44

  Magnetic coils or windings · CPC title

• H01H51/065

  Relays having a pair of normally open contacts rigidly fixed to a magnetic core movable along the axis of a solenoid, e.g. relays for starting automobiles (details H01H50/20) · CPC title