Adjustable contactor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11469057-B2
Application number	US-202016733481-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 3, 2020
Priority date	Dec 30, 2015
Publication date	Oct 11, 2022
Grant date	Oct 11, 2022

Abstract

The present utility model discloses an adjustable contactor including: a static contact fixed in the contactor; a movable contact which is connected in the movable contact bracket through a contact spring, and which makes contact with the static contact in accordance with the movement of the movable contact bracket in the contactor; the contactor further includes adjusting knobs provided in the movable contact bracket at one end in connection with the contact spring while corresponding to the contact springs connected with individual movable contacts, the adjusting knob being set so that adjustment of the compression or release of the contact spring is achieved by rotating the adjusting knob so as to adjust the contact pressure of the movable contact.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of assembling an adjustable contactor, wherein
the contactor comprises static contacts, movable contacts, contact springs and a movable contact bracket; the static contact is fixed in the contactor; the movable contact is connected in the movable contact bracket through the contact spring, and makes contact with the static contact in accordance with the movement of the movable contact bracket in the contactor;
the contactor further comprises adjusting knobs provided in the movable contact bracket at one end in connection with the contact spring while corresponding to the contact springs connected with individual movable contacts, and the adjusting knob is set so that adjustment of compression or release of the contact spring is achieved by rotating the adjusting knob so as to adjust a contact pressure of the movable contact;
the method of assembling comprises:
measuring an overtravel value of each contact spring and a bounce time value of each movable contact after pre-assembling of the contactor, and
operating the adjusting knob so as to adjust a contact pressure of the contact spring, based on a measured value of the overtravel of each contact spring and a measured value of the bounce time of each movable contact to achieve the consistency among the contact springs of various electrodes;
after the completion of operating the adjusting knob, re-measuring the bounce time value of each movable contact so as to obtain consistency among various contact springs; and
testing the pull-in voltage threshold and the release voltage threshold, and fastening and integrating the contactor so as to obtain an assembled-contactor;
before the measuring the overtravel value of each contact spring and the bounce time value of each movable contact, pre-assembling the contactor to allow the movable contact to contact the static contact by a detector, wherein the movable contact corresponds to the contact spring;
releasing the contact spring that the movable contact corresponds to, so as to obtain the bounce time value and the contact pressure of the movable contact; and
analyzing the bounce time of the movable contact by the detector, wherein, if the bounce time of the movable contact is greater than a design value, the detector controls the adjusting knob corresponding to the movable contact to rotate, and the contact pressure of the movable contact is adjusted by the detector according to rotation amount of the helical structure of the adjusting knob and a coefficient k of the contact spring.

2. A method of assembling a contactor, wherein
the contactor comprises static contacts, movable contacts, contact springs and a movable contact bracket, the static contacts are fixed in the contactor, and each movable contact is in the movable contact bracket and is connected with an end of one of the contact springs;
the contactor further comprises adjusting knobs provided in the movable contact bracket, the adjusting knobs correspond to the contact springs respectively, and each adjusting knob connects another end of the contact spring that the adjusting knob corresponds to;
the method of assembling comprises:
measuring an overtravel value of each contact spring and a bounce time value of each movable contact, and
operating the adjusting knob so as to adjust a contact pressure of the contact spring, based on a measured value of the overtravel of each contact spring and a measured value of the bounce time of each movable contact, to achieve the consistency among the contact springs of various electrodes;
after the completion of operating the adjusting knob, re-measuring the bounce time value of each movable contact so as to obtain consistency among various contact springs; and
testing the pull-in voltage threshold and the release voltage threshold, and fastening and integrating the contactor so as to obtain an assembled-contactor;
before the measuring the overtravel value of each contact spring and the bounce time value of each movable contact, pre-assembling the contactor to allow the movable contact to contact the static contact by a detector, wherein the movable contact corresponds to the contact spring;
releasing the contact spring that the movable contact corresponds to, so as to obtain the bounce time value and the contact pressure of the movable contact and
analyzing the bounce time of the movable contact by the detector, wherein, if the bounce time of the movable contact is greater than a design value, the detector controls the adjusting knob corresponding to the movable contact to rotate, and the contact pressure of the movable contact is adjusted by the detector according to rotation amount of the helical structure of the adjusting knob and a coefficient k of the contact spring.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the pre-assembling the contactor comprises:
moving the movable contact bracket in the contactor so that the movable contact moves close to the static contact and then contacts the static contact.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the pre-assembling the contactor further comprises:
after the movable contact contacts the static contact, moving the movable contact bracket toward the static contact so that the contact spring between the movable contact and the movable contact bracket is compressed to have the overtravel and to establish the contact pressure reacting upon the movable contact.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the operating the adjusting knob so as to adjust the contact pressure of the contact spring comprises:
rotating the adjusting knob to adjust compression or release of the contact spring so as to adjust a contact pressure of the movable contact, wherein the contact pressure of the movable contact is a pressure at which the movable contact contacts the static contact.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the contact pressure of the movable contact is determined according to the measured value of the overtravel of the contact spring.

7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the contact pressure of the movable contact is equal to the contact pressure of the contact spring.

8. The method according to claim 5 , wherein values of the contact pressures of the movable contacts are same.

9. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising: re-measuring the bounce time of each movable contact after completion of the operating the adjusting knob.

10. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising: after completion of re-measurement of the bounce time value of each movable contact, testing a pull-in voltage threshold and a release voltage threshold of the contactor.

11. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the adjusting knob is connected to the contact spring by means of a helical structure.

12. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the contact pressures of the contact springs have a same value.

13. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the contact springs comprise at least two contact springs which have different contact pressures.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the at least two contact springs have different values of overtravel.

15. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the contact pressures of the contact springs are adjusted asynchronous.

16. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the movable contact bracket comprises grooves spaced apart from each other, each groove is provided with one contact spring and one movable contact, the movable contact has an end beyond the groove, and an orthographic projection that the entire end beyond the groove has on the mov

Assignees

• Schneider Electric Ind Sas

Inventors

• Wang Yuanzhong
• Wang Yixu
• Chaudot Francois

Classifications

• H01H1/34 Primary

  with provision for adjusting position of contact relative to its co-operating contact · CPC title

• H01H1/24

  with resilient mounting · CPC title

• H01H11/0062

  Testing or measuring non-electrical properties of switches, e.g. contact velocity (monitoring contacts H01H1/0015; monitoring gas density H01H33/563; monitoring vacuum H01H33/668; calibrating H01H69/01; adjusting H01H71/74; testing of electrical properties G01R31/333) · CPC title

• H01H50/546

  for contactors having bridging contacts · CPC title

• G01R31/3274

  Details related to measuring, e.g. sensing, displaying or computing; Measuring of variables related to the contact pieces, e.g. wear, position or resistance (measuring contact resistance G01R27/205) · CPC title