IP Library Granted Patent US 8,729,417
Granted Patent B2
US 8,729,417 · App. 13/354,761 · Granted May 20, 2014

Method of manufacturing a current terminal for embedded pole part, and pole part itself

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Patent No.
US 8,729,417
App. No.
13/354,761
Granted
May 20, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a current terminal for an embedded pole part, in which a vacuum interrupter is molded by an isolating coverage in a hot and pressure injection process, and such a pole part. At the position of the upper electric terminal at the fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter, a pressure protecting element is placed into the mold, at least close to the upper part the fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter and/or together with it, and the protecting element, the terminal and the vacuum interrupter are embedded by injection molding.

Claims (25)

1. A method for manufacturing an embedded pole part, comprising:

embedding a vacuum interrupter in a hot process by injecting embedding material in a mould in which the vacuum interrupter is positioned;

placing, at a position of an upper electric terminal of the pole part at a fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter, a pressure protecting element into the mould, the pressure protecting element being placed at an embedding coverage of the pole part at least one of close to an upper part of the fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter and touching the upper part of the fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter chamber; and

embedding the pressure protecting element, the terminal and the vacuum interrupter by injection molding.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure protecting reinforcement element is implemented as a heat distribution element.

3. Method according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure protecting element is an integral part of the terminal, which is fixed at the upper part at the fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter before inserting the pressure protecting element completely into the mould.

4. Method according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure protecting element is a separate part of the terminal, and wherein the method comprises:

fixing the pressure protecting element at the upper part at the fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter; and

after the pressure protecting element is fixed, fixing the terminal at the fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter before inserting the terminal completely into the mould.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the vacuum interrupter is fixed in the mould by fixing elements, which transmit resulting forces only at at least one of the terminal and the pressure protection element of the vacuum interrupter.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the fixation is realized by at least one of clamshells and bolts which are inserted from at least one of a backside of an arrangement of the terminal and near an axis of the vacuum interrupter.

7. An embedded pole part comprising:

a vacuum interrupter embedded in a hot process by injected embedding material, the vacuum interrupter including an upper electric terminal of the pole part at a fixed contact side of the vacuum interrupter; and

a pressure protecting reinforcement element arranged at a position of the upper electric terminal of the vacuum interrupter for the embedding of the injection material, the pressure protecting reinforcement element being integrated into an embedding coverage of the pole part at least one of close to the upper electric terminal and touching the upper electric terminal, the embedding coverage of the pole part being subjected to embedding.

8. The embedded pole part according to claim 7 , wherein the pressure protecting element is implemented as a heat distribution element.

9. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the vacuum interrupter is fixed in the mould by fixing elements, which transmit resulting forces only at at least one of the terminal and the pressure protection element of the vacuum interrupter.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the fixation is realized by at least one of clamshells and bolts which are inserted from at least one of a backside of an arrangement of the terminal and near an axis of the vacuum interrupter.

11. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the vacuum interrupter is fixed in the mould by fixing elements, which transmit resulting forces only at at least one of the terminal and the pressure protection element of the vacuum interrupter.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the fixation is realized by at least one of clamshells and bolts which are inserted from at least one of a backside of an arrangement of the terminal and near an axis of the vacuum interrupter.

13. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the vacuum interrupter is fixed in the mould by fixing elements, which transmit resulting forces only at at least one of the terminal and the pressure protection element of the vacuum interrupter.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the fixation is realized by at least one of clamshells and bolts which are inserted from at least one of a backside of an arrangement of the terminal and near an axis of the vacuum interrupter.

15. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the fixation is realized by at least one of clamshells and bolts which are inserted from at least one of a backside of an arrangement of the terminal and near an axis of the vacuum interrupter.

16. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the fixation is realized by at least one of clamshells and bolts which are inserted from at least one of a backside of an arrangement of the terminal and near an axis of the vacuum interrupter.

17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the embedded pole part is configured for medium voltages.

18. The embedded pole part according to claim 7 , wherein the embedded pole part is configured for medium voltages.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Nov 15, 2016
From: ABB TECHNOLOGY LTD.
To: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
Reel/Frame 040621/0902 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE'S NAME FROM "ABB TECHNOLOGY LTD" TO -- ABB TECHNOLOGY AG --. PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 028304 FRAME 0472. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Oct 22, 2012
From: HUMPERT, CHRISTOF; SHANG, WENKAI
To: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG
Reel/Frame 029169/0866 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2012
From: HUMPERT, CHRISTOF; SHANG, WENKAI
To: ABB TECHNOLOGY LTD
Reel/Frame 028304/0472 →