Current limiting circuit breaker with electromagnetic opening means
CA 1064078 A · Owner: Westinghouse Electric Corporation · Inventors: Malick, Franklin S.
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A circuit breaker includes a slotted magnetic device having a plurality of spaced slotted conductive plates and a moving contact arm positioned within the slot when the circuit breaker is in a closed circuit position so that current flowing through the contact arm has a component in a vertical direction with respect to the slot. An overcurrent condition through the circuit breaker causes magnetic flux to be generated within the slotted magnetic device which develops a force to drive the moving contact arm from the front to the rear of the slot in a direction generally parallel to the bottom of the slot thereby actua-, ting the circuit breaker from a closed circuit position to an open …
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- Granted October 9, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 9, 1996.
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