JPH0157456B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a contact material for a vacuum shield breaker that has excellent large current shearing characteristics. [Prior Art] Vacuum sheath breakers have advantages such as maintenance-free, non-polluting properties, and excellent shingle breaker performance, so the scope of their application is rapidly expanding. In addition, along with this, demands for higher voltage resistance and higher current resistance are becoming more severe. On the other hand, the performance of a vacuum shield breaker is determined to a large extent by the contact material inside the vacuum container. Satisfactory characteristics of contact materials for vacuum shield disconnectors include (1) large shield breaking capacity, (2) high withstand voltage, (3) low contact resistance, and (4) low welding force. (5) low contact wear, (6) low cutting current, (7) good workability, and (8) sufficient mechanical strength. In actual contact materials, it is quite difficult to satisfy all of these properties, and in general, materials are used that satisfy particularly important properties depending on the application, sacrificing other properties to some extent. For example, the copper-tungsten contact material described in JP-A-55-78429 has excellent withstand voltage performance and is therefore often used in applications such as load switches and contactors. However, it has the disadvantage of poor current conduction and breaking performance. On the other hand, for example, copper as described in JP-A-54-71375
Chromium contact materials have very good insulation properties and are often used for applications such as insulation breakers, but they are inferior to the above-mentioned copper-tungsten contact materials in terms of withstand voltage performance. In addition to the above-mentioned contact materials for vacuum shields and disconnectors, examples of contact materials generally used in air, oil, etc. are listed in literature such as "Powder Metallurgy" (published by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun). However, for example, powder metallurgy P.229~
When the silver-molybdenum contact material and the copper-molybdenum contact material described in 230 are used for vacuum insulation and disconnection contacts, the withstand voltage performance is inferior to the copper-tungsten contact material described above, and the current resistance is inferior to the copper-tungsten contact material described above. - At present it is rarely used as it is inferior to chrome contact materials. [Problems to be solved by the invention] As mentioned above, conventional contacts for vacuum shields and circuit breakers have been used by taking advantage of their respective characteristics. As demands for higher voltages become more stringent, it is becoming difficult to fully satisfy the required performance with conventional contact materials. Furthermore, contact materials with superior performance are required for miniaturization of vacuum shields and disconnectors. This invention has been made to improve the above-mentioned conventional products, and an object thereof is to provide a contact material for a vacuum shield breaker having excellent shearing performance. [Means for Solving the Problems] The inventors prototyped materials in which various metals, alloys, and intermetallic compounds were added to copper, incorporated them into vacuum shields and disconnectors, and conducted various experiments. As a result, it was found that the contact material made of copper, molybdenum, and niobium had very excellent shatterability. The contact material for a vacuum shield breaker according to the present invention is characterized by being made of copper, molybdenum, and niobium. [Embodiments of the Invention] Examples of the invention will be described below. (Preparation of contact material) The contact material was prepared using three powder metallurgy methods: infiltration method, complete powder sintering method, and hot press method. The first method for manufacturing contact materials using the infiltration method uses molybdenum powder with an average particle size of 3 μm, niobium powder with a particle size of 40 μm or less, and copper powder with a particle size of 40 μm or less at 75.7 and 7.8, respectively.
After weighing at a ratio of 16.5 to 16.5, mixing was performed for 2 hours. Subsequently, this mixed powder was filled into a mold of a predetermined shape and pressed under a load of 1 ton/cm ² to perform molding. Next, this molded body was sintered in vacuum at 1000° C. for 2 hours to obtain a temporary sintered body. Thereafter, a lump of oxygen-free copper was placed on the temporary sintered body and held at 1250° C. for 1 hour in a hydrogen atmosphere to impregnate the temporary sintered body with oxygen-free copper and use it as a contact material. The final component ratio of this contact material is Sample 2 in Table 1. Table 1 also lists contact materials with other component ratios manufactured by the same method as those shown above.

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〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, since a contact material made of copper, molybdenum, and niobium is used for the electrode of the vacuum shield breaker, a vacuum shield breaker with excellent shear cutting performance can be obtained.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a graph showing the shearing performance of a copper-molybdenum-niobium contact material manufactured by an infiltration method, which is an embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 2 is a graph showing the shearing performance of a copper-molybdenum-niobium contact material manufactured by an infiltration method, which is an embodiment of the present invention. A graph showing the shearing performance of a copper-molybdenum-niobium contact material manufactured by a bonding method, and FIG.
It is a graph showing the shearing performance of niobium contact material.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A vacuum shield breaker having a pair of opposing electrodes that can be brought into contact and separated from each other in a vacuum vessel, characterized in that the electrode materials are made of copper, molybdenum, and niobium. Dexterous contacts. 2. Claim No. 2, characterized in that copper, molybdenum, and niobium are each distributed as an elemental metal, a tri- or bi-metallic alloy, a tri- or bi-metallic compound, or a composite thereof. The vacuum shield contact described in item 1.