US3097280A - Partitioned gas-filled electrical apparatus - Google Patents

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US3097280A
US3097280A US858689A US85868959A US3097280A US 3097280 A US3097280 A US 3097280A US 858689 A US858689 A US 858689A US 85868959 A US85868959 A US 85868959A US 3097280 A US3097280 A US 3097280A
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Kohler Werner
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H33/00—High-tension or heavy-current switches with arc-extinguishing or arc-preventing means
    • H01H33/02—Details
    • H01H33/53—Cases; Reservoirs, tanks, piping or valves, for arc-extinguishing fluid; Accessories therefor, e.g. safety arrangements, pressure relief devices
    • H01H33/56—Gas reservoirs
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/7722—Line condition change responsive valves
    • Y10T137/7781—With separate connected fluid reactor surface
    • Y10T137/7784—Responsive to change in rate of fluid flow
    • Y10T137/7785—Valve closes in response to excessive flow

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  • This invention relates to gas-filled electrical apparatus, and more particularly to gas-filled electrical apparatus in which it is desired not to affect the integrity of one portion of the gas-filled apparatus by a leakage failure in another portion of the apparatus.
  • the invention is concerned with gas-filled electrical apparatus having partitions which compartmentally divide the electrical apparatus into separate gas-filled chambers.
  • the invention has particular applicability to gas-filled circuitinterrupting structures.
  • the gas-filled circuit interrupter is subdivided into a plurality of closed chambers, such as an, interrupting chamber, an actuating chamber or an insulating supporting enclosure, which communicate with each other only through provided valves.
  • the invention provides the advantage that if there is a leak in a portion of the gas-filled circuit-interrupter casing, the gas will escape only from that portion of the interrupter which has developed such a leak; and no gas will escape from the cooperating adjacently disposed spaces, or chambers.
  • the invention has the particular advantage that those parts, or portions of the circuit interrupter which are not affected by the leak will continue to function in their normal fashion as far as their operation is dependent upon the gaseous extinguishing medium, such as performing their interrupting function or their insulating function in a proper manner.
  • the valves should be so constructed that an exchange of gas among the individual chambers may take place.
  • the valves may be so arranged that they can be opened for a certain period of time after each circuit-interrupting opening and closing operation.
  • the valves are adapted to be normally open, and to be closed only upon the sudden development of a pres-sure differential between two adjacent chambers.
  • a closure means, or a closing valve, particularly suitable for the purposes of the invention is obtained by inserting into the wall between two adjacent gas-filled chambers a partition plate which is provided with an aperture. Connected to the end portions of such plate, so as to provide a gas-tight connection therewith, is a resilient diaphragm, said diaphragm also being provided With one, or a plurality of openings therein. Prefer-ably, these openings are so disposed that they do not register with the aperture provided in the partition plate.
  • the force with which such engagement takes place is the product of the pressure differential AP between the pressures in the two adjacent chambers, and the cross-sectional area F of the aperture in the partition plate. This force can readily be made to be sufficient to seal off the aperture in the partition plate.
  • the sealing surface between the diaphragm and the plate near the aperture in the partition plate should be a raised surface.
  • either the resilient diaphragm or the partition plate, or both of said parts may be provided with a raised portion, so that when said diaphragm is pressed against the partition plate, the resulting force will be concentrated upon a relatively small surface area. The specific contact pressures obtained thereby permit a perfect gas-tight sealing of the aperture within the partition plate.
  • the magnitude of the differential pressure at which the valve, designed according to the invention will respond can be varied by means of a spring disposed between the diaphragm and the partition plate, such that the spring is adapted to bias the diaphragm away from the plate.
  • a spring disposed between the diaphragm and the partition plate, such that the spring is adapted to bias the diaphragm away from the plate.
  • valve While the valve described above will respond to a pressure gradient in only one direction, that is, if the pressure at the side of the plate remote from the diaphragm is lower than the pressure at the side of the plate provided with the diaphragm, the valve, or closure, may also be designed so as to be responsive to a pressure differential regardless of the direction of the pressure gradient.
  • Such a valve would have a diaphragm on both sides of the partition plate, which two diaphragms may be identical.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide electrical apparatus having partition means separating the electrical apparatus into a plurality of gas-filled portions, with closure mean-s associated with the partition means, such that a loss of gas pressure in one portion of the gas-filled apparatus will not be effective to result in a complete loss of gas pressure throughout the entire apparatus.
  • a more specificobject of the present invention is to improve the effective and reliable operation of gasfilled power circuit interrupters of the type enclosing a suitable arc-extinguishing and dielectric gas, such as SP 01' SF6.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved power circuit interrupter of the gas-filled type involvinga pair of serially related interrupting chambers, in which valve-controlled partition means are provided so that should there occur a loss of pressure in one interrupting chamber, the associated serially related interrupting chamber will still remain effective to interrupt the controlled circuit.
  • a more specific object of the present invention is to provide an improved gas-filled circuit-interrupting structure involving one or more interrupting chambers, at least an actuating chamber, and at least a supporting chamber,
  • FIGURE 1 is a somewhat schematic vertical sectional view through a gas-filled electrical apparatus, such as a power circuit interrupter, the contact structure thereof being shown in the partly open-circuit position;
  • FIG. 2 is a considerably enlarged, vertical sectional view through one of the valve arrangements employed to effect closure of the apertured partition means within the circuit interrupter of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a modified type of valve closure means, similar to that of FIG. 2, but responsive to a differential pressure extending in either direction.
  • circuit-interrupter casing is subdivided into four separate chambers.
  • the two interrupting chambers 1 and 2 each of which contains a pair of separable contacts 7, 8, represent two of the four mentioned chambers.
  • the other tWo chambers of the circuit-interrupting structure include the actuating chamber 3, which carries the interrupting chambers 1 and 2, and the insulating supporting casing 4, which supports the actuating chamber 3.
  • the rod-shaped movable contacts 8 may be moved downwardly away from the stationary contacts 7 by rotation of a pair of actuating bell-cranks 5.
  • the bell-cranks are preferably stationarily mounted, by any suitable means, to the side walls of the actuating chamber 3.
  • Links 9 pivotally connect the bell-cranks 5 to a horizontally extending yoke member 14, which is operated vertically, in a reciprocal manner, by an insulating operating rod 19.
  • the lower end of the insulating operating rod 19 may be connected to any suitable operating mechanism, not shown.
  • valves 6 As shown in FIG. 1, the individual chambers 14 communicate with each other through valves 6, as indicated in FIG. 1, any two of the individual chambers having associated therewith a pair of such valves 6. It is to be remembered, however, that the number of closure valves 6 employed is of significance only insofar as a certain cross-sectional area of orifice can be obtained, either by providing one large valve, or a plurality of smaller valves. Smaller valves may be more simple to produce, and also may be more reliable in operation, so that it would be desirable to use a number of smaller valves instead of one large valve.
  • valves 6, indicated in FIG. 1 are so constructed that they will move to their closed positions only in the presence of a pressure gradient acting in a certain direction.
  • closure of the valves 6 will occur when the pressure gradient is in the direction of the interrupting chambers 1, 2.
  • this interrupting chamber 1 will be isolated from the other portions, or chambers of the circuit-interrupting structure by the valves 6, associated with interrupting chamber 1, whereby the gas pressure in the other chambers 2-4 will remain normal.
  • FIG. 2 shows, in enlarged fashion, one of the valves indicated in FIG. 1 in greater detail.
  • the valve generally designated by the reference numeral 11 is inserted in a wall portion, indicated as the reference numeral 11.
  • the valve comprises a plate 12 consisting, for example, of sheet metal, and a flexible diaphragm 13, for example, formed of synthetic rubber. For reasons of simplicity in the manufacture of the plate 12, it may be formed with a circular shape, but may also have any other desired configuration.
  • the partition plate 12 is provided with a centrally disposed communicating aperture 15', and the diaphragm 13 is positioned underneath the partition plate 12, as shown. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the diaphragm 13 is provided with a pair of openings 1e and 17.
  • annular valve member 18 preferably formed of an elastic material, the inner diameter of which is at least as large as the diameter of the aperture 15.
  • a compression spring is disposed between the diaphragm 13 and the plate 12, the compression spring being arranged to bias the diaphragm 13 downwardly away from the partition plate 12. As shown, the compression spring 26) is centered by the annular valve member 18.
  • the valve 10' functions as follows: If the pressure P above the partition plate 12 is substantially equal to the pressure P below the partition plate 12, the diaphragm 13 will be biased downwardly away from the partition plate 12 by the compression spring 211. In this position of the valve 10, a small How of gas is permissible from the space above the partition plate to the space below the partition plate, as indicated by the arrows. If, however, the pressure in the space above plate 12 should suddenly drop, as caused by a sudden leak, the diaphragm 13 will be pressed upwardly against the partition plate 12 after a short transitional period, in which the diaphragm 13 will be acted upon by suction forces.
  • the contacting pressure thereby becoming effective will be equal to the pressure differential P minus P multiplied by the cross-sectional area F of the aperture 15.
  • This contact pressure, or force acts upon the relatively small surface area of the annular valve member 18 engaging partition plate 12. This results in a high contact pressure resulting in hermetically sealing the aperture 15 provided in apertured plate 12.
  • the gas, at pressure P which enters the space 21 between partition plate 12 and diaphragm 13 through the openings 16 and 17 produces no force tending to move the diaphragm away from the partition plate 12. Therefore, the contact pressure is dependent only upon the pressure differential and the size of the aperture 15.
  • a diaphragm 13 may be provided on each side of the partition plate 12, as illustrated in FIG. 3 of the drawing.
  • this modified valve arrangement 22 may be perfectly symmetrical relative to the partition plate '12, so that either of the two diaphragms 13 will be pressed against partition plate 12 in order to close the aperture 15 in response to the same pressure differential.
  • the two valve portions may also he designed to have different characteristics, for example, by providing springs v20 of different strengths between the two diaphragms 13 and the plate '12. In this instance, the valve will :be closed in response to pressure differentials which differ depending upon the direction of the pressure gradient.
  • valve arrangements provided in the partition means may be effective in one direction, or, as shown in FIG. 3, the valve means may be provided to act in both directions depending upon which side of the partition loses its pressure.
  • the invention has particular importance when it is remembered that should one of the two interrupting chamber-s lose its gas pressure, and hence might be ineffective to cause opening of the circuit, nevertheless, the presence of the other interrupting chamber would be effective to cause circuit interruption.
  • a gas-filled power circuit interrupter of substantially Y-shaped configuration comprising, in combination, a substantially enclosed hollow actuating chamber, an upstanding hollow supporting insulator for supporting said hollow actuating chamber up in the air an adequate dis- 'tance above ground potential, a pair of divergently extending enclosed gas-filled serially-related interrupting chambers each of which has a pair of separable contact means disposed therein, each of the two interrupting chambers being unvented, operating means disposed within said hollow actuating chamber for simultaneously effecting opening and closing movements of the two serially-related separable contact means, operating rod means extending upwardly through said supporting insulator to actuate said operating means, communicating passage means including an apertured partition plate between the hollow actuating chamber and each of the gas-filled interrupting chambers, and differential pressure-acting valve means including a valve having a raised portion adapted to surround the aperture in the partition plate upon valve closure whereby the valve seating pressure will be increased, the arrangement functioning to control the 110w of gas through each communicating passage means, whereby

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