Contact device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9640354-B2
Application number	US-201314423353-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 20, 2013
Priority date	Aug 23, 2012
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

In a contact device, rotational movement of a movable contactor with a yoke attached is regulated by the fact that the yoke abuts against a wall surface of a wall portion. In an event where the movable contactor with the yoke attached moves rotationally, the yoke is allowed to abut against only a wall surface in one region obtained by dividing the wall surface by a virtual line passing through a rotation center of the yoke.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A contact device comprising:
a movable contactor;
a yoke that is attached to the movable contactor and forms a magnetic circuit; and
a wall portion arranged to surround outer peripheries of the movable contactor and the yoke, wherein:
rotational movement of the movable contactor with the yoke attached is regulated by a fact that the yoke abuts against a wall surface of the wall portion,
in an event where the movable contactor with the yoke attached moves rotationally, the yoke is allowed to abut against only a wall surface in one region obtained by dividing the wall surface by a virtual line passing through a rotation center of the yoke,
the wall surface in the one region includes wall surfaces opposite to each other so as to interpose the yoke therebetween,
the yoke abuts against only one wall surface of the wall surfaces opposite to each other in an event where the movable contactor attached with the yoke rotationally moves to one side, and
the yoke abuts against only other wall surface of the wall surfaces opposite to each other in an event where the movable contactor with the yoke attached rotationally moves to another side.

2. The contact device according to claim 1 , wherein, in whichever direction the movable contactor with the yoke attached may rotationally move, the yoke is allowed to abut against only the wall surface in the one region.

3. The contact device according to claim 1 , wherein the wall surface against which the yoke abuts does not have a bent portion.

4. The contact device according to claim 3 , wherein a shape profile of the wall surface has a polygonal shape, and the yoke is allowed to abut against only a wall surface of the wall portion, the wall surface composing one side of the polygonal shape.

5. The contact device according to claim 4 , wherein the shape profiles of the wall surface and the yoke have quadrangular shapes, and a distance of an edge of the yoke, the edge being opposite to one wall surface of four wall surfaces of the wall surface, to the rotation center and a distance of an edge of the yoke, the edge being opposite to a wall surface opposite to the one wall surface, to the rotation center are different from each other.

6. The contact device according to claim 5 , wherein, on the edge opposite to the one wall surface of the four wall surfaces of the wall surface, a protrusion portion that protrudes on the one wall surface side is provided.

7. The contact device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the yoke includes: a first yoke that abuts against the wall surfaces; and a substantially U-like second yoke arranged to surround the movable contactor, and
a side of the first yoke in the one region, the side being opposite to the wall surface against which the first yoke abuts, protrudes more on the wall surface side than the second yoke when viewed from above.

8. The contact device according to claim 1 , wherein the shape profiles of the wall surface and the yoke have quadrangular shapes, and a distance of an edge of the yoke, the edge being opposite to a wall surface in the one region, to the rotation center and a distance of an edge of the yoke, the edge being opposite to a wall surface in other region, to the rotation center are different from each other.

9. The contact device according to claim 8 , wherein, on the edge opposite to the wall surface in the one region, protrusion portions which protrude to a mutually opposite wall surface side in the one region are individually provided.

10. The contact device according to claim 8 ,
wherein the yoke includes: a first yoke that has a quadrangular shape profile and abuts against the wall surfaces; and a substantially U-like second yoke arranged to surround the movable contactor, and
the shape profile of the first yoke has a trapezoidal shape in which a width between edges on the one region side is made wider than a width between edges on the other region.

11. The contact device according to claim 10 , wherein the edges of the first yoke on the one region side protrude more on the mutually opposite wall surface side in the one region than the second yoke.

12. A contact device comprising:
a movable contactor;
a yoke that is attached to the movable contactor and forms a magnetic circuit; and
a wall portion arranged to surround outer peripheries of the movable contactor and the yoke, wherein:
rotational movement of the movable contactor with the yoke attached is regulated by a fact that the yoke abuts against a wall surface of the wall portion,
in an event where the movable contactor with the yoke attached moves rotationally, the yoke is allowed to abut against only a wall surface in one region obtained by dividing the wall surface by a virtual line passing through a rotation center of the yoke,
the wall surface in the one region includes wall surfaces opposite to each,
the yoke abuts against only one wall surface of the wall surfaces opposite to each other in an event where the movable contactor attached with the yoke rotationally moves to one side,
the yoke abuts against only other wall surface of the wall surfaces opposite to each other in an event where the movable contactor with the yoke attached rotationally moves to another side,
the shape profiles of the wall surface and the yoke have quadrangular shapes, and a distance of an edge of the yoke, the edge being opposite to a wall surface in the one region, to the rotation center and a distance of an edge of the yoke, the edge being opposite to a wall surface in other region, to the rotation center are different from each other, and
the yoke includes: a first yoke that has a quadrangular shape profile and abuts against the wall surfaces; and a substantially U-like second yoke arranged to surround the movable contactor, and
the shape profile of the first yoke has a trapezoidal shape in which a width between edges on the one region side is made wider than a width between edges on the other region.

13. The contact device according to claim 12 , wherein the edges of the first yoke on the one region side protrude more on the mutually opposite wall surface side in the one region than the second yoke.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nishimura Tsukasa
• Yamamoto Ritsu

Classifications

• H01H1/50

  Means for increasing contact pressure, preventing vibration of contacts, holding contacts together after engagement, or biasing contacts to the open position · CPC title

• H01H50/546

  for contactors having bridging contacts · CPC title

• H01H50/04

  Mounting complete relay or separate parts of relay on a base or inside a case · CPC title

• H01H50/60 Primary

  moving contact being rigidly combined with movable part of magnetic circuit {(for polarised relays H01H51/2254, H01H51/2281)} · 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