EP1655749A1 - Kontaktpastille für einen beweglichen elektrischen Kontakt eines Schutzschalters, beweglicher elektrischer Kontakt mit einer solchen Pastille und Schutzschalter mit einem solchen Kontakt - Google Patents
Kontaktpastille für einen beweglichen elektrischen Kontakt eines Schutzschalters, beweglicher elektrischer Kontakt mit einer solchen Pastille und Schutzschalter mit einem solchen Kontakt Download PDFInfo
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- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H1/00—Contacts
- H01H1/02—Contacts characterised by the material thereof
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
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- H01H1/02—Contacts characterised by the material thereof
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- H01H1/023—Composite material having a noble metal as the basic material
- H01H1/0233—Composite material having a noble metal as the basic material and containing carbides
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H1/00—Contacts
- H01H1/02—Contacts characterised by the material thereof
- H01H1/021—Composite material
- H01H1/025—Composite material having copper as the basic material
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H3/00—Mechanisms for operating contacts
- H01H3/22—Power arrangements internal to the switch for operating the driving mechanism
- H01H3/30—Power arrangements internal to the switch for operating the driving mechanism using spring motor
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- the invention relates to a contact pad intended to be fixed on a low voltage circuit breaker movable contact intended to withstand short-circuit peak currents of between 200 and 600 amperes per square millimeter of pellet.
- the pellet consists of an alloy of conducting material based on silver or copper, a fraction of refractory particles such as tungsten carbide, tungsten or titanium nitride and a fraction of carbon fibers.
- Solutions include adding at the surface or contact area composite materials in the form of pellets of different thicknesses and different materials.
- the pellets are usually made of silver or copper alloy. They are made in the usual manner by sintering a powder composed of a silver-based alloy, in particular silver and tungsten or silver and nickel. These contact materials have a high electrical conductivity, a high sufficient resistance to oxidation and good properties with regard to contact resistance.
- the known silver-based contact materials show an undesirable tendency to weld. In addition, they tend to cause adhesion of the contact surfaces and / or migration of material between the contact elements. Finally, their use is generally associated with excessive wear of the contacts.
- Carbon, in the form of fibers may also be provided to the alloy powder (US4699763).
- the resistance to erosion is then improved, but this improvement is achieved at the cost of an alteration of the behavior of the contact at the weld.
- the carbon fibers are mixed with the metal powder with a wetting agent, lubricant and wet solvent, followed by drying, compression and sintering.
- the disadvantage of such a method is that it involves complications inherent to a wet process.
- EP0171339 is described a method of manufacturing electrical contacts by impregnating a carbon fiber substrate with a liquid metal under pressure, then by hot spinning the mixture thus obtained. It can be seen that the resulting contacts show an excessive propensity for welding.
- EP0729162 is described a method of manufacturing powder-based electrical contacts of a good electrically conductive metal such as silver and crushed carbon fibers of average length less than 20 .mu.m.
- a good electrically conductive metal such as silver and crushed carbon fibers of average length less than 20 .mu.m.
- the contact surface keeps, after cutting under a short-circuit current, its fine, homogeneous and isotropic structure of fiber residues of variable length and any orientation in the matrix of money.
- the weight proportions of crushed carbon fiber residues are between 2 and 5% with the silver powder.
- the material thus obtained shows a low post contact resistance, good anti-weld qualities and acceptable erosion resistance.
- the invention therefore aims to overcome the disadvantages of the state of the art, so as to provide a contact pad having a low contact resistance post cut, high erosion resistance and good anti-welding properties.
- a contact pad according to the invention comprises a weight percentage of carbon fibers in the pellet strictly less than 2% of the total mass of said contact patch.
- the weight percentage of carbon fibers in the contact pad is between 0.5% and 1.9% of the total mass of said contact pad.
- the carbon fibers are crushed fibers with a length of less than 20 ⁇ m.
- the carbon fibers consist of carbonized fibers containing at least 90% carbon, less than 10% nitrogen, substantially 1% oxygen and less than 1% hydrogen.
- the contact patch is composed of 79% of the silver alloy, 20% of tungsten carbide (CW) and 1% of carbon fiber.
- a mobile circuit breaker contact according to a development mode of the invention comprises a movable contact finger connected to a contact pad as defined above, the chip being connected to the movable contact finger via a thin layer of conductive material based on silver alloy.
- the contact pad 3 is intended to be fixed on a moving contact 2 low-voltage circuit breaker 1 for supporting short-circuit currents of several kilo amperes.
- a contact pad 3 according to the invention is intended to withstand short-circuit peak currents of between 200 and 600 amperes per square millimeter of pellet.
- the contact pad 3 is composed of a conductive material such as silver (Ag) or copper (Cu) in which is inserted a fraction of carbon fibers and a fraction of refractory particles such as for example carbide tungsten (WC), tungsten (W), titanium nitride (TiN). These refractory particles have an average diameter of 1 to 10 microns.
- a conductive material such as silver (Ag) or copper (Cu) in which is inserted a fraction of carbon fibers and a fraction of refractory particles such as for example carbide tungsten (WC), tungsten (W), titanium nitride (TiN). These refractory particles have an average diameter of 1 to 10 microns.
- the carbon fibers consist of carbonized fibers containing at least 90% carbon, less than 10% nitrogen, substantially 1% oxygen and less than 1% hydrogen.
- carbon fibers with an average length L1 of between approximately 100 ⁇ m and 800 ⁇ m and a diameter of between 4 and 20 ⁇ m are chosen. These fibers undergo a cold and dry mechanical treatment in a mechanical grinder. The conditions of intensity and duration of grinding make it possible to obtain fibers the length of which is statistically distributed around a mean value which is much lower than the initial average value. From the initial fibers, crushed fiber residues having an average length of less than 20 ⁇ m are thus obtained. The crushed fibers are then added to the conductive material containing the refractory fractions. The powder mixture of conductive material and the crushed carbon fibers is carried out dry in a mechanical mixer until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Said mixture then undergoes a unitary compression and a sintering so as to obtain an isotropic material structure
- the weight percentage of carbon fibers in the pellet is strictly less than 2%. It is preferably between 0.5% and 1.9% of the total mass of the pellet.
- an ideal compromise in the choice of the proportions of materials for this type of application consists in using a pellet comprising 79% silver (Ag), 20% tungsten carbide (CW) and 1% of crushed carbon fibers.
- this material having an appropriate homogeneous structure shows a low and stable post-cut contact resistance as well as a good resistance to erosion under a short circuit of several tens of kiloamperes.
- this material develops anti-welding characteristics with respect to the steel balls present in the environment during the cut especially in the electric arc column.
- An explosive phenomenon due to the degradation of the carbon fiber explains the anti-adhesion characteristics of this material with respect to molten steel balls.
- a movable contact 2 circuit breaker 1 comprising a movable contact finger moving relative to a fixed contact 4 of the circuit breaker, has a contact pad 3 as defined above.
- Said contact pad is connected to the movable contact finger by means of a thin layer of conductive material based on silver or a mixture of copper and silver. This intermediate layer makes it possible to block the propagation of cracks in the interface zone between the contact pad 3 and the finger.
- a circuit breaker 1 comprising an opening mechanism 6 acting on at least one electric moving contact 2 as defined above.
- Said at least one moving contact 2 is placed opposite a fixed contact 4.
- Said fixed contact is made of an alloy, generally comprising a silver metal matrix in which a fraction of particles of graphite powder is inserted. Said fraction of particles constitutes 3 to 5% of the mass of the alloy.
- the alloy may also comprise a certain amount of refractory elements (W, WC, Ni) of between 2 and 30% of the total mass.
- the circuit breaker 1 according to a particular embodiment, is intended to accept nominal currents of 1600 amps and short-term currents of 42000 amps for one second.
- the breaking chambers 10 comprise, by pole, five movable contacts 2 associated with a fixed contact area 4.
- Filtering means 5 placed on the walls of the breaking chambers 10 are intended to strongly attenuate external manifestations of the gases present in said rooms at the time of opening contacts.
- the filtering means 5 comprise filters having characteristics specific techniques as described in the patents of the Applicant (EP-A-1115132, EP-A-1251533).
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FR0411869A FR2877763B1 (fr) | 2004-11-08 | 2004-11-08 | Pastille de contact destinee a un contact electrique mobile de disjoncteur, contact electrique mobile possedant une telle pastille et disjoncteur comportant un tel contact |
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EP1655749A1 true EP1655749A1 (de) | 2006-05-10 |
EP1655749B1 EP1655749B1 (de) | 2007-11-28 |
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US (1) | US7598832B2 (de) |
EP (1) | EP1655749B1 (de) |
CN (1) | CN1773647B (de) |
DE (1) | DE602005003537T2 (de) |
ES (1) | ES2297652T3 (de) |
FR (1) | FR2877763B1 (de) |
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FR2115865A5 (en) * | 1970-11-24 | 1972-07-07 | Duerrwaechter E Dr Doduco | Carbon fibres - satd with copper or silver to form solid soln contact material |
EP0171339A1 (de) | 1984-07-25 | 1986-02-12 | Le Carbone Lorraine | Verfahren zur Herstellung von elektrischen Kontakten |
US4689196A (en) * | 1985-06-24 | 1987-08-25 | Gte Products Corporation | Silver-tungsten carbide-graphite electrical contact |
US4699763A (en) | 1986-06-25 | 1987-10-13 | Westinghouse Electric Corp. | Circuit breaker contact containing silver and graphite fibers |
DE4111683A1 (de) | 1991-04-10 | 1992-10-22 | Duerrwaechter E Dr Doduco | Werkstoff fuer elektrische kontakte aus silber mit kohlenstoff |
US5199553A (en) * | 1990-10-09 | 1993-04-06 | Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. | Sliding contactor for electric equipment |
EP0729162A1 (de) | 1995-02-27 | 1996-08-28 | Schneider Electric Sa | Herstellungsverfahren eines elektrischen Verbundkontaktmaterials |
EP1115132A1 (de) | 2000-01-07 | 2001-07-11 | Schneider Electric Industries SA | Pol für elektrischen Lastschalter mit Lichtbogenlöschkammer, versehen mit dielektrischen Schirmen |
EP1251533A1 (de) | 2001-04-19 | 2002-10-23 | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | Integraler Diffusor für ein elektrisches Schaltgerät |
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FR2115865A5 (en) * | 1970-11-24 | 1972-07-07 | Duerrwaechter E Dr Doduco | Carbon fibres - satd with copper or silver to form solid soln contact material |
EP0171339A1 (de) | 1984-07-25 | 1986-02-12 | Le Carbone Lorraine | Verfahren zur Herstellung von elektrischen Kontakten |
US4689196A (en) * | 1985-06-24 | 1987-08-25 | Gte Products Corporation | Silver-tungsten carbide-graphite electrical contact |
US4699763A (en) | 1986-06-25 | 1987-10-13 | Westinghouse Electric Corp. | Circuit breaker contact containing silver and graphite fibers |
US5199553A (en) * | 1990-10-09 | 1993-04-06 | Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. | Sliding contactor for electric equipment |
DE4111683A1 (de) | 1991-04-10 | 1992-10-22 | Duerrwaechter E Dr Doduco | Werkstoff fuer elektrische kontakte aus silber mit kohlenstoff |
EP0729162A1 (de) | 1995-02-27 | 1996-08-28 | Schneider Electric Sa | Herstellungsverfahren eines elektrischen Verbundkontaktmaterials |
EP0729162B1 (de) | 1995-02-27 | 1999-07-28 | Schneider Electric Sa | Herstellungsverfahren eines elektrischen Verbundkontaktmaterials |
EP1115132A1 (de) | 2000-01-07 | 2001-07-11 | Schneider Electric Industries SA | Pol für elektrischen Lastschalter mit Lichtbogenlöschkammer, versehen mit dielektrischen Schirmen |
EP1251533A1 (de) | 2001-04-19 | 2002-10-23 | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | Integraler Diffusor für ein elektrisches Schaltgerät |
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CN104532050A (zh) * | 2015-01-15 | 2015-04-22 | 潍坊学院 | 一种氮化钛增强银基触头材料及其制备方法 |
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CN1773647B (zh) | 2011-09-21 |
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