Relay

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12125653-B2
Application number	US-202117927307-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 30, 2021
Priority date	May 29, 2020
Publication date	Oct 22, 2024
Grant date	Oct 22, 2024

Abstract

A relay, includes: a housing having a cavity in the housing; stationary contacts arranged on the housing, each of the stationary contacts being at least partially in the cavity; a drive shaft movable in an axial direction of the drive shaft, an axial end of the drive shaft having a support piece at least partially inserted into the cavity; a moving contact assembly coupled with the support piece through a sliding structure and movable in the axial direction of the drive shaft, and the sliding structure being arranged on a side of the moving contact assembly along a moving direction of the moving contact assembly; and an elastic member being between the moving contact assembly and the support piece and applying an elastic force to the moving contact assembly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A relay, comprising:
a housing having a cavity defined in the housing;
a plurality of stationary contacts, arranged on the housing at intervals, each of the plurality of stationary contacts being at least partially arranged in the cavity;
a drive shaft movable relative to the housing in an axial direction of the drive shaft, an axial end of the drive shaft having a support piece at least partially inserted into the cavity;
a first magnetic yoke;
a moving contact assembly coupled with the support piece through a sliding structure, wherein the moving contact assembly is movable relative to the support piece in the axial direction of the drive shaft between a first position where the moving contact assembly contacting the stationary contacts and a second position where the moving contact assembly being away from the stationary contacts, the sliding structure is arranged on a side of the moving contact assembly along a moving direction of the moving contact assembly, the moving contact assembly comprises a moving contact and a second magnetic yoke, the first magnetic yoke is arranged on a first side of the moving contact facing the stationary contacts, and the second magnetic yoke is arranged on a second side of the moving contact facing away from the stationary contacts; and
an elastic member, the elastic member being arranged between the moving contact assembly and the support piece and applying an elastic force to the moving contact assembly to move towards the first position.

2. The relay according to claim 1 , wherein the sliding structure comprises:
a sliding slot, wherein one of the support piece and the moving contact assembly includes the sliding slot and comprises a first stop wall and a second stop wall respectively located at two ends of the sliding slot, wherein the sliding slot extends along the axial direction of the drive shaft; and
a sliding block arranged on the other one of the support piece and the moving contact assembly, wherein the sliding block is coupled with the sliding slot and configured to slide between the first stop wall and the second stop wall along the axial direction of the drive shaft.

3. The relay according to claim 2 , wherein the sliding slot is formed on the support piece, the sliding block is arranged on the moving contact assembly, and when the sliding block contacts the first stop wall under the elastic force of the elastic member, the moving contact assembly is moved to the first position.

4. The relay according to claim 3 , wherein the support piece comprises two supporting arms arranged opposite to each other, the sliding slot is a first sliding slot, the sliding structure further comprises a second slide slot, the first sliding slot and the second sliding slot are formed in the two supporting arms respectively, the moving contact assembly is arranged between the two supporting arms, the moving contact assembly comprises two sliding blocks including the sliding block, and the two sliding blocks are respectively disposed in the first sliding slot and the second sliding slot.

5. The relay according to claim 1 , wherein the first magnetic yoke is arranged in the cavity and spaced apart from the stationary contacts, the moving contact is mounted to the second magnetic yoke, the second magnetic yoke is coupled with the support piece through the sliding structure, and the elastic member is disposed between the second magnetic yoke and the support piece.

6. The relay according to claim 5 , wherein the support piece defines a sliding cavity opened towards the first magnetic yoke, the moving contact assembly is movably coupled with the sliding cavity, an end of the first magnetic yoke facing the moving contact assembly does not extend over ends of the stationary contacts facing the moving contact assembly, a distance between the end of the first magnetic yoke facing the moving contact assembly and the ends of the stationary contacts facing the moving contact assembly in the axial direction of the drive shaft is L, and the L satisfies 0≤L≤1 mm.

7. The relay according to claim 6 , wherein the second magnetic yoke comprises a bottom plate piece and two side plate pieces oppositely arranged on two sides of the bottom plate piece, a mounting groove is defined between the two side plate pieces and the bottom plate piece, the moving contact is arranged in the mounting groove, and an end of the moving contact facing the stationary contact is flush with an end of a side plate piece facing the first magnetic yoke.

8. The relay according to claim 7 , wherein the moving contact comprises one of a matching protrusion and a matching groove, the bottom plate piece comprises the other one of the matching protrusion and the matching groove, and the matching protrusion fits with the matching groove.

9. The relay according to claim 1 , wherein the drive shaft further comprises:
a shaft body piece; and
an insulating member, the insulating member being connected between the support piece and the shaft body piece.

10. The relay according to claim 9 , wherein a mounting through hole is formed on the support piece, the insulating member is coupled with the mounting through hole, and a positioning member is arranged on an end of the insulating member away from the shaft body piece to position the elastic member.

Assignees

• Byd Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yao Baotong
• Wang Lujian
• Liu Siyuan

Classifications

• H01H50/546

  for contactors having bridging contacts · CPC title

• H01H50/44

  Magnetic coils or windings · CPC title

• H01H50/02

  Bases; Casings; Covers (frames for mounting two or more relays or for mounting a relay and another electric component H02B1/01, H04Q1/08, H05K) · CPC title

• H01H50/54

  Contact arrangements · CPC title

• H01H9/30

  Means for extinguishing or preventing arc between current-carrying parts · CPC title