US3192440A - Load switch with parallel connected capacitors - Google Patents

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US3192440A
US3192440A US136502A US13650261A US3192440A US 3192440 A US3192440 A US 3192440A US 136502 A US136502 A US 136502A US 13650261 A US13650261 A US 13650261A US 3192440 A US3192440 A US 3192440A
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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
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    • H01H33/04—Means for extinguishing or preventing arc between current-carrying parts
    • H01H33/14—Multiple main contacts for the purpose of dividing the current through, or potential drop along, the arc
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    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H33/00—High-tension or heavy-current switches with arc-extinguishing or arc-preventing means
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    • 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
    • H01H33/04—Means for extinguishing or preventing arc between current-carrying parts
    • H01H33/14—Multiple main contacts for the purpose of dividing the current through, or potential drop along, the arc
    • H01H2033/146—Multiple main contacts for the purpose of dividing the current through, or potential drop along, the arc using capacitors, e.g. for the voltage division over the different switches

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  • This invention relates to electrical switches for switching heavy load currents of the alternating type and more particularly to switches of this type provided with a plurality of load breaking points connected electrically in series and wherein impedances are connected in parallel with, i.e. shunted across, the load breaking points.
  • the function served by these impedances, in the known constructions, is to distribute in a uniform manner the potential of the recovery voltage on the breaking points.
  • the impedances serve to damp or level off the frequency of the recovery voltage, particularly in cases where this voltage has a steep rise.
  • the function performed by a capacitance connected in parallel with the switch gap is to furnish a discharge current into the path of the are at a time just before the current passage through zero, approximately between the extinguishing peak of the arc voltage and the attainment of zero of the latter, this discharge cu-rrent being superimposed upon the inductive, short-circuit current furnished by the feeding network to which the switch is connected, whereby the resulting switching current approaches Zero just before its actual passage through zero, with less steepness as regards time than what would be the case were no paralleling capacitance to be present.
  • the slower current zero passage facilitates the electric arc extinction by the switch.
  • the parallel capacitances for the potential control can be arranged in various sizes to be able to balance the various selfcapacitances of the individual breaking points.
  • resistors are used for the potential control, it is also feasible, to design one of these resistors in such a way that it has maximally one third of the resistance at the remaining breaking points. It is even feasible to go so far that the shunt capacitances are provided only at just one breaking point if the self-capacitance for the potential control sufiices for the remaining breaking points.
  • FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing one embodiment wherein the load switch comprises two breaking points connected electrically in series and wherein capacitors are shunted across each breaking point;
  • FIG. 2 is also a circuit diagram showing a switch with two series arranged breaking points and wherein a capacitor is shunted across only one breaking point;
  • FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram of an embodiment similar to that of FIG. 1 and wherein resistors are also shunted across each of the two breaking points of the switch;
  • FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram of a further embodiment similar to that of FIG. 1 and wherein one resistor is shunted across the series connection of the two breaking points;
  • FIG. 5 is a circuit diagram of a further embodiment wherein several breaking points of the load switch are each shunted by a capacitor and a resistor;
  • FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram of another embodiment wherein the load switch is provided with two groups of series arranged breaking points, wherein the breaking points of each group are each shunted by a capacitor and wherein a resistor is shunted across each group of the series arranged breaking points;
  • FIG. 7 is a circuit diagram of a further embodiment wherein the load switch is provided with two groups of series arranged breaking points and wherein the breaking points of each group are shunted by a single capacitor and by a single resistor;
  • FIG. 8 is a circuit'diagram of another embodiment wherein the load switch has two series arranged breaking points, one of these breaking points being shunted by a capacitor and the other shunted by an inductor; and
  • FIG. 9 illustrates the invention wherein a capacitor is shunted across one of several breaking points for several load switches designed for different operating voltages.
  • the load switch is comprised of two breaking points 1, 2 arranged electrically in series. Each breaking point is characterized by the customary pair of relatively movable contacts. A capacitor 3' having a great capacitance is shunted across breaking point 1 and another capacitor 4 having a smaller capacitance is shunted across breaking point 2..
  • FIG. 2 which is similar to that of FIG. 1, only the breaking point 1 is shunted by a capacitor 3 having a large capacitance while the other breaking point 2 has only its self-capacitance.
  • FIG. 3 shows another embodiment comprising load breaking points 1, 2 arranged in series, there being a large capacitor 3 shunted across breaking point 1 and another smaller capacitor 4 shunted across breaking point 2.
  • a resistor 5 having a low ohmic value is connected parallel with breaking point 1 and capacitor 3
  • a resistor 6 having a high ohmic value is connected parallel with breaking point 2 and capacitor 4.
  • Resistor 6 must have an ohmic value at least three times greater than that of resistor 5.
  • breaking point 1 is paralleled by a large capacitor 3 and breaking point 2 is paralleled by a smaller capacitor 4.
  • a single resistor 5 is connected in parallel across the two series arranged breaking points.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an embodiment of the invention wherein the load switch is comprised of two groups of load breaking points arranged in series, one group of the breaking points being designated 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 1.11
  • Capacitors 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.11 are shunted with their respective breaking points 1.1 to 1.1: and capacitors 4.1, 4.2, 4.111 are shunted with their respective breaking points 2.2 to 2.111.
  • the capacitors 3.1 to 3.11 have at least triple the capacitance of capacitors 4.1 to 4111.
  • Resistors 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.72 are shunted with their respective breaking points 1.1 to 1.11 and resistors 6.1, 6.2 and 6.111 are shunted with their respective breaking points 2.2 to 2.111.
  • the resistors 5.1 to 5.11 have a lower ohmic value than the resistors 6.1 to 6.111.
  • the letters m and 11 signify the number of breaking points of the switch, m and 12 can be equal or different.
  • FIG. 6 The embodiment illustrated in FIG. 6 is quite similar to that illustrated in FIG. 5 except that a single resistor 5 is shunted with all of the breaking points 1.1 to 1.11, and another single resistor 6 is shunted with all the breaking points 2.1 to 2.111. As in FIG. 5, resistor 5 has a lower ohmic value than resistor 6.
  • FIG. 7 is also similar to FIG. 5 except that a single capacitor 3 is shunted with all of the breaking points 1.1 to 1.11 and a single capacitor 4 is shunted with all of the breaking points 2.1 to 2.m.
  • the switch also comprises two load breaking points 1 and 2 arranged in series and wherein a capacitor 3 is shunted with breaking point 1 while an inductor 7 is shunted with breaking point 2.
  • each such breaking point being established by the gap between two relatively movable switching contacts, and wherein each such breaking point includes a capacitance in shunt therewith, the improvement wherein at least one breaking point is provided with a capacitor in shunt therewith, the capacitance value of said capacitor indepedently of the potential distribution through the individual breaking points being at least triple the value of the capacitances of the remaining breaking points.
  • a load switch as defined in claim 2 wherein the resistors and capacitors of several breaking points are References Cited by the Examiner FOREIGN PATENTS 4/50 Great Britain. 8/58 Great Britain.

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US3448287A (en) * 1965-09-29 1969-06-03 Bbc Brown Boveri & Cie Electrical switching arrangement with multiple interruption
US3604869A (en) * 1969-07-03 1971-09-14 Gen Electric High-voltage multibreak circuit breaker with means for accelerating restoration of normal voltage distribution following sparkover and clearance of one break
US3641357A (en) * 1969-06-03 1972-02-08 Jean Louis Gratzmuller Circuit-breaking technique and device
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US4383150A (en) * 1978-09-12 1983-05-10 Westinghouse Electric Corp. Circuit-interrupters having shunting capacitance around the separable power contacts with capacitance disconnecting means therefor
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US3430062A (en) * 1964-03-26 1969-02-25 Sprecher & Schuh Ag Switching circuit for high-voltage direct-current
US3448287A (en) * 1965-09-29 1969-06-03 Bbc Brown Boveri & Cie Electrical switching arrangement with multiple interruption
US3641357A (en) * 1969-06-03 1972-02-08 Jean Louis Gratzmuller Circuit-breaking technique and device
US3604869A (en) * 1969-07-03 1971-09-14 Gen Electric High-voltage multibreak circuit breaker with means for accelerating restoration of normal voltage distribution following sparkover and clearance of one break
US3670176A (en) * 1970-04-10 1972-06-13 Werner Faust Switching arrangement for disconnecting high voltage direct current lines
US3731149A (en) * 1971-08-30 1973-05-01 Emf Corp Arc suppression, motor protection and dynamic braking network for a.c. motors
US3927350A (en) * 1974-04-22 1975-12-16 Ite Imperial Corp Self-switched inductive fault current limiter
US3963960A (en) * 1974-09-18 1976-06-15 Hughes Aircraft Company Bipolar crossed-field switch tube and circuit
US4383150A (en) * 1978-09-12 1983-05-10 Westinghouse Electric Corp. Circuit-interrupters having shunting capacitance around the separable power contacts with capacitance disconnecting means therefor
US20090127230A1 (en) * 2007-11-17 2009-05-21 Moeller Gmbh Switching device for direct-current applications
EP2061052A3 (de) * 2007-11-17 2012-04-04 Eaton Industries GmbH Schaltgerät für Gleichstrom-Anwendungen
US20120187089A1 (en) * 2008-10-27 2012-07-26 Xuanshu Chen High-voltage, super-voltage and heavy current breaker
EP2249363A1 (de) * 2009-05-07 2010-11-10 ABB Research Ltd. Anordnung, Unterstation, Betriebsverfahren und Verwendung von einem Erdungsschalter zum Schutz einer elektrischen Schaltung gegen Kurzleitungsfehler
US8724266B2 (en) * 2012-08-02 2014-05-13 Renewable Power Conversion, Inc. Photovoltaic switchgear with sacrificial fuse
WO2015010916A1 (de) * 2013-07-25 2015-01-29 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Schaltereinrichtung

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