IP Library Granted Patent US 9,030,809
Granted Patent B2
US 9,030,809 · App. 13/552,216 · Granted May 12, 2015

Housing for a switchgear assembly module, switchgear assembly module and switchgear assembly

View Patent ↗
Loading inventors, assignments & file history…
Monitor This Case
Get email alerts when status or documents change.
Order Certified Copies
Most orders are placed with the USPTO same day — all within 24 business hours.
Order via The Patent Place →
Pre-filled with this patent's details
Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,030,809
App. No.
13/552,216
Granted
May 12, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A housing for a switchgear assembly module of a switchgear assembly forms a common gas space suitable for accommodating an insulating gas and three gas-insulated busbar nominal conductors of the switchgear assembly module. The housing includes three first busbar openings, which are arranged areally in a first opening plane and along a first straight line, three second busbar openings, which are arranged on a side, which is opposite the three first busbar openings, of the housing, and three outgoing conductor openings which are arranged areally in a second opening plane and along a second straight line.

Claims (52)

1. A housing for a switchgear assembly module of a switchgear assembly, wherein the housing forms a common gas space suitable for accommodating an insulating gas and three gas-insulated busbar nominal conductors of the switchgear assembly module, the housing comprising:

three first busbar openings, wherein the three first busbar openings are arranged areally in a first opening plane and along a first straight line;

three second busbar openings, wherein the three second busbar openings are arranged on a side of the housing which is opposite the three first busbar openings; and

three outgoing conductor openings, wherein the three outgoing conductor openings are arranged areally in a second opening plane,

wherein center points of the three outgoing conductor openings are arranged along a second straight line, and

wherein an outgoing normal plane, which is perpendicular to the second opening plane and contains the second straight line, is arranged between an outer one of the first busbar openings and a central one of the first busbar openings.

2. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second straight line runs at an incline with respect to the first straight line.

3. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first straight line, the second straight line, the first opening plane or the second opening plane run in accordance with at least one of the following arrangements (a) to (d):

(a) the second opening plane is arranged transversely to the first opening plane;

(b): the second straight line is offset with respect to the first straight line in such a way that the first straight line and the second straight line do not intersect one another and the second opening plane extends parallel to a plane which emerges from the first plane through a 90 degree rotation about the first straight line;

(c): the second straight line runs inclined to the first opening plane; and

(d) the first straight line runs parallel to the second opening plane.

4. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an internal volume of the housing forms a continuous gas space, and

wherein the three first busbar openings, the three second busbar openings, and the three outgoing conductor openings each form a separate access for each nominal conductor to the gas space from outside the housing.

5. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the three second busbar openings are arranged areally in a third opening plane and along a third straight line, and

wherein the third opening plane is parallel to the first opening plane and the third straight line is parallel to the first straight line.

6. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the three second busbar openings is arranged with respect to an associated one of the three first busbar openings and forms therewith a respective busbar opening pair for accommodating a respective continuous straight busbar conductor section therebetween.

7. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of:

respective centers of the three first busbar openings are arranged in a row at a uniform unit distance from one another along the first straight line;

respective centers of the three outgoing conductor openings are arranged in a row at the uniform unit distance from one another along the second straight line; and

respective centers of the three second busbar openings are arranged in a row at the uniform unit distance from one another along a third straight line.

8. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the outgoing normal plane is arranged centrally between the outer one of the first busbar openings and the central one of the first busbar openings.

9. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the housing is at least one of integral and in the form of a casting.

10. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the housing is configured to withstand an internal pressure of at least 2 bar.

11. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first busbar openings, the second busbar openings and the outgoing openings are connected to a main chamber of the common gas space via a respective tube stump.

12. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first busbar openings, the second busbar openings, and the outgoing openings have in each case one flange, which surrounds the respective openings circumferentially, on the connection side.

13. The housing as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the housing and the flanges are configured such that the housing is capable of supporting its own mass when the housing is supported on at least two of the flanges.

14. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:

three outgoing conductor housing sections, wherein the three outgoing conductor openings are arranged on a respective one of the three outgoing conductor housing sections; and

three busbar housing sections, which extend between a respective one of the first busbar openings and a respective one of the second busbar openings,

wherein at least one of the three outgoing conductor housing sections connects the internal volumes of in each case at least two of the three busbar housing sections of the gas space to one another.

15. The housing as claimed in claim 14 , wherein a first outgoing conductor housing section of the three outgoing conductor housing sections connects the three busbar housing sections directly to one another, and

wherein a second outgoing conductor housing section of the three outgoing conductor housing sections connects only two of the three busbar housing sections directly to one another.

16. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the outgoing conductor openings are each directed towards a direction which is perpendicular to the first straight line and the second straight line.

17. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the housing has at least one aperture, which passes through the common gas space.

18. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:

a cooling device configured to increase heat dissipation from the gas space of the housing.

19. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a set of openings comprising the first busbar openings, the second busbar openings and the outgoing openings are arranged in mirror-symmetrical fashion with respect to a mirror plane, and

wherein the mirror plane is arranged parallel to the first opening plane.

20. A switch panel, containing a housing as claimed in claim 1 .

21. The housing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second straight line runs perpendicular to the first straight line.

22. The housing as claimed in claim 3 , wherein in arrangement (a), the second opening plane is arranged perpendicular to the first opening plane, and

wherein in arrangement (c), the second straight line runs perpendicular to the first opening plane.

23. The housing as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first straight line, the second straight line, the first opening plane or the second opening plane run in accordance with at least one of the following arrangements (a) to (d):

(a) the second opening plane is arranged transversely to the first opening plane;

(b): the second straight line is offset with respect to the first straight line in such a way that the first straight line and the second straight line do not intersect one another and the second opening plane extends parallel to a plane which emerges from the first plane through a 90 degree rotation about the first straight line;

(c): the second straight line runs inclined to the first opening plane; and

(d) the first straight line runs parallel to the second opening plane.

24. The housing as claimed in claim 23 , wherein in arrangement (a), the second opening plane is arranged perpendicular to the first opening plane, and

wherein in arrangement (c), the second straight line runs perpendicular to the first opening plane.

25. The housing as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the housing and the flanges are configured such that the housing is capable of supporting its own mass when the housing is supported on three of the flanges.

26. The housing as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the housing and the flanges are configured such that the housing is capable of supporting its own mass when the housing is supported on the flanges of the outgoing conductor openings.

Assignments (6)
MERGER Recorded Nov 13, 2023
From: HITACHI ENERGY SWITZERLAND AG
To: HITACHI ENERGY LTD
Reel/Frame 065549/0576 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE CONVEYING PARTY "ABB TECHNOLOGY LTD."SHOULD READ"ABB TECHNOLOGY AG" PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 040622 FRAME: 0076. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 11, 2022
From: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG
To: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
Reel/Frame 059927/0929 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 31, 2021
From: ABB POWER GRIDS SWITZERLAND AG
To: HITACHI ENERGY SWITZERLAND AG
Reel/Frame 058666/0540 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 6, 2020
From: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
To: ABB POWER GRIDS SWITZERLAND AG
Reel/Frame 052916/0001 →
MERGER Recorded Nov 15, 2016
From: ABB TECHNOLOGY LTD.
To: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
Reel/Frame 040622/0076 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2012
From: SABANI, ARBEN; SOLOGUREN-SANCHEZ, DIEGO; WUERGLER, ROLAND; BOLLI, TILO
To: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG
Reel/Frame 028766/0674 →