High- and medium-voltage gas blast circuit breaker

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5216214
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07886146

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A gas blast circuit breaker comprises a cylindrical metal or insulative enclosure filled with pressurized insulative gas, a fixed arc contact and a mobile assembly coupled to an operating member comprising a gas blast cylinder associated with a gas blast nozzle and cooperating with a piston, and a mobile arc contact carried by a tubular member inside the gas blast cylinder. The inside wall of the tubular member comprises a bottleneck whose cross-section is less than the inside cross-section of the tubular member and coaxial therewith. The minimum cross-section of the bottleneck has a diameter less than or equal to the diameter of the inside cross-section of the mobile arc contact and equal to at least 0.75 times the diameter of the inside cross-section of the mobile arc contact. The operation of the circuit breaker is improved by increasing the gas pressure near the mobile arc contact by virtue of a particularly simple and low-cost arrangement.

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ALSTOM HOLDINGS48 RUE ALBERT DHALENNE SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE 93400

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Biquez, Francois Brignais, FR 3 20
Willieme, Jean-Marc La Mulatiere, FR 22 168

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