Spring drive cam for a spring drive of a circuit breaker

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11651909-B2
Application number	US-202117404287-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 17, 2021
Priority date	Aug 19, 2020
Publication date	May 16, 2023
Grant date	May 16, 2023

Abstract

Provided is a spring drive cam for a spring drive of a circuit breaker including a disc-like shape configured for rotating around a rotation axis in the spring drive, whereby the disc-like shape comprises a radius (R) that changes depending on an angle (α) of the radius (R) relative to a base angle (α 0 ), and whereby a rate (dR/dα) defined by a change of the radius (R) per change of the angle (α) is ≤0.3 mm/°.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A spring drive cam for a spring drive of a circuit breaker comprising a flat cam profile configured to rotate around a rotation axis in the spring drive, wherein the flat cam profile comprises a radius (R) being the distance between a point of the cam profile and its axis of rotation that changes depending on an angle (α) of rotation relative to a base angle (α0) in an initial position of the cam, and a rate (dR/dα) defined by a change of the radius (R) per change of the angle (α) is ≤0.3 mm/° for the radius (R)≥82 mm and ≤125 mm and the angle (a)≥95° and ≤210°, and wherein the spring drive cam is attached to a closing spring.

2. The spring drive cam according to claim 1 , wherein the rate (dR/dα) is <0.28 mm/°, 0.28 mm/° and/or constant.

3. The spring drive cam according to claim 1 , wherein, for the rate (dR/dα)≤0.28 mm/°, the radius (R) is ≥92 mm and ≤115 mm.

4. The spring drive cam according to claim 1 , wherein, for the rate (dR/dα)≤0.28 mm/°, the angle (α) is ≥105° and ≤200°.

5. The spring drive cam according to claim 1 , wherein, for any rate (dR/dα), the radius (R) is ≥40 and ≤130 mm.

6. The spring drive cam according to claim 1 , wherein, for the radius (R)<82 mm and the angle (α)<95°, the rate (dR/dα) is >0.3 mm/or,
for the radius (R)<92 mm and the angle (α)<95°, the rate (dR/dα) is greater than 0.3 mm/° and/or,
for the radius (R)>125 mm and the angle (α)>210° the rate (dR/dα) is ≤0.3 mm/° or,
for the radius (R)>115 mm and the angle (α)>200° the rate (dR/dα) is <0.3 mm/°.

7. The spring drive comprising the spring drive cam according to claim 1 , an opening spring configured to open the circuit breaker and a closing spring configured to close the circuit breaker and reload-ing the opening spring, wherein the opening spring and the closing spring are in rotational contact with the spring drive cam.

8. The spring drive according to claim 7 , wherein the rate (dR/dα)≤0.3 mm/° yields a rotational speed of the cam ( 3 ) of ≤4600°/s.

9. The circuit breaker comprising the spring drive according to claim 7 and a couple of conducting terminals, wherein the spring drive is configured to move at least one of the conducting terminals for electrically connecting and disconnecting the conducting terminals.

10. The circuit breaker according to claim 9 , wherein one of the conducting terminals is provided as contact plug and the other of the conducting terminals is provided as corresponding contact tulip, whereby the conducting terminals are arranged in coaxial arrangement and at least one of the conducting terminals is arranged movable relative to the other of the of the conducting terminals.

11. The spring drive cam according to claim 1 , wherein the closing spring is attached to the spring drive cam at a rotational axis of the spring drive cam.

Assignees

• Hitachi Energy Switzerland Ag

Inventors

• Korbel Jakub
• Cuppett Matt
• Christopher Brian
• Thomas Richard
• Kotilainen Sami
• Jacobsson Staffan
• Wedin Benny
• Agostini Francesco

Classifications

• H01H3/38 Primary

  using spring or other flexible shaft coupling · CPC title

• H01H3/42 Primary

  using cam or eccentric · CPC title

• H01H3/30

  using spring motor · CPC title

• H01H2235/01

  Spiral spring · CPC title