The present disclosure relates to the technical field of relays, in particular to a high-voltage DC relay with an auxiliary contact.
The relay is an electronic control device, which has a control system (also called an input loop) and a controlled system (also called an output loop), and is usually used in automatic control circuits, the relay is actually a kind of “automatic switch” that uses a smaller current to control a larger current. Therefore, it plays the role of automatic adjustment, safety protection, and conversion circuit in the circuit.
High-voltage DC (Direct current) relay is a kind of relay, the high-voltage DC relay in the related art generally includes a relay housing, a movable contact piece for being in contact with two stationary contacts, a pushing rod, a movable iron core, a coil assembly, a reaction spring for resetting the movable iron core, and a contact spring for increasing the contact pressure. When the coil assembly is working, the movable iron core is moved to drive the movable contact piece moving through the pushing rod, so that the two ends of the movable contact piece are in contact with the two stationary contacts, and then the load circuit can be in a close state. In order to monitor the on/off state of the stationary contacts, some high-voltage DC relays also include auxiliary contacts. At present, the auxiliary contact of the high-voltage DC relay in the related art includes a conductive part that is relatively fixed to the pushing rod and has an upper contact, and two lower contacts located below the conductive part. Since the auxiliary contact of this high-voltage DC relay are of up and down contact type, when the pushing rod moves down to the conductive part and comes into contact with the lower contacts, the conductive part will give an upward thrust to the pushing rod, which makes the movable contact piece easier to release and bounce, thus there is a risk of reignition of the voltaic arc.
The technical solutions adopted by the present disclosure to solve its technical problems are as follows: a high-voltage DC relay with an auxiliary contact, including two stationary contacts, a movable contact piece, a pushing rod, a coil assembly, a movable iron core and an auxiliary contact, the movable iron core is disposed in the coil assembly and is capable of moving up and down and is fixedly connected with the pushing rod; the movable contact piece is movably connected with the pushing rod and cooperates with the two stationary contacts; wherein the auxiliary contact includes two auxiliary springs located in the coil assembly, each of the two auxiliary springs is provided with a lead-out pin, the pushing rod is provided with an insulating portion and a conductive portion distributed up and down, as the pushing rod is moved up and down, the two auxiliary springs clamp the conductive portion or the insulating portion of the pushing rod to make the auxiliary contact close or open.
Further, the insulating portion is an insulating sleeve sleeved on an outside of a bottom of the pushing rod; or, the insulating portion is an insulating cap fixed to a bottom end of the pushing rod; or, the insulating portion is an insulating film coated on the bottom of the pushing rod.
Further, the conductive portion is integrally formed with the pushing rod.
Further, the insulating portion is located above the conductive portion, or the insulating portion is located below the conductive portion.
Further, the two auxiliary springs are both flexible springs that are elastically deformable.
Further, the tops of the two auxiliary springs are respectively provided with a bent portion, and an outer corner of the bent portion is in contact with the insulating portion or the conductive portion.
Further, the two auxiliary springs are symmetrical to each other.
Further, a metal shell is provided in the coil assembly, and the movable iron core and the two auxiliary springs are located in the metal shell; the bottom of the metal shell is provided with two through holes corresponding to lead-out pins of the two auxiliary springs one by one, and an insulating ring is respectively installed in the two through holes, the lead-out pins of the two auxiliary springs respectively pass downward through the insulating ring in a corresponding through hole.
Further, the metal shell includes a metal case with openings at both top and bottom ends and a metal sheet, the metal sheet is fixedly connected to a bottom opening of the metal case, and the two through holes are provided in the metal sheet.
Further, the on/off state of a main contact formed by the two stationary contacts and the movable contact piece is the same as or opposite to an on/off state of the auxiliary contact formed by the two auxiliary springs and the pushing rod.
The present disclosure will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments; However, the high-voltage DC relay with an auxiliary contact of the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments.
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In this embodiment, the insulating portion is an insulating sleeve 7, which is sleeved on the outside of the bottom of the pushing rod 6. Specifically, the bottom of the pushing rod 6 is provided with a necked section 63, and the insulating sleeve 7 is sleeved on the necked section 63. The conductive portion 61 is located under the insulating sleeve 7, and the conductive portion 61 is integrally formed with the pushing rod 6, and the conductive portion 61 has peripheral side surface. As shown in
In this embodiment, the two auxiliary springs 8 are both flexible springs that are elastically deformable. As shown in
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In this embodiment, the relay housing includes a housing and an upper cover, a yoke part is provided in the housing, the coil assembly is arranged in the yoke part, and the upper cover is arranged at the top opening of the housing, the two stationary contacts 1 are respectively arranged in an insulating cover located on the top of the yoke part which includes an U-shaped yoke and a yoke plate and the upper ends of the two stationary contacts 1 are respectively sealed and pass through the upper cover. The structure of the relay housing is not limited to this. In other embodiments, the relay housing is composed of an upper housing and a bottom plate, or two upper and lower half-housings.
In this embodiment, the on/off state of the main contact formed by the two stationary contacts 1 and the movable contact piece 2 is the same as the on/off state of the auxiliary contact, but it is not limited to this, in other embodiments, the on/off state of the auxiliary contact can be changed by changing the position of the insulating portion (that is, the insulating sleeve 7), such as making it under the conductive portion, the on/off state of the auxiliary contact is opposite to that of the main contact.
The working principle of the high-voltage DC relay with an auxiliary contact of the present disclosure is as follows: in the normal state, the coil is not energized, and the movable contact piece 2 is separated from the two stationary contacts 1, that is, the main contact is in an open state, the movable iron core 12 is at the lowest position under the action of the reaction spring 14, and the tops of the two auxiliary springs 8 clamp the insulating sleeve 7 on the pushing rod 6, that is, the two auxiliary springs 8 are separated by the insulating sleeve 7, and the auxiliary contact is in an open state, as shown in
The high-voltage DC relay with an auxiliary contact of the present disclosure, the auxiliary contact includes two auxiliary springs 8, each of the two auxiliary springs 8 is provided with a lead-out pin 11, the pushing rod 6 is provided with an insulating portion and a conductive portion 61 distributed up and down, as the pushing rod 6 is moved up and down, the two auxiliary springs 8 clamp the conductive portion 61 or the insulating portion of the pushing rod 6 to make the auxiliary contact close or open, the relay can not only use the cooperation of two auxiliary springs 8 and the pushing rod 6 to realize the monitoring function of the auxiliary contact, but also can use the contact friction force generated by the two auxiliary springs 8 clamping the conductive portion or the insulating portion of the pushing rod 6 to offset the rebound force when the movable contact piece 2 is released, thereby reducing the risk of the voltaic arc reignition. Therefore, the relay of the present disclosure not only does not increase the risk of rebounding of the movable contact piece 2 caused by the movable contact piece 2 being released, but also can reduce the risk. In the present disclosure, on the bottom of the pushing rod 6, the insulating portion is adjacent to the conductive portion 61 in the vertical direction, both of which are respectively cooperated with the two auxiliary springs 8, so that it can make the auxiliary contacts normally open or normally close only to change the relative positions of the insulating portion and the conductive portion 61 on the pushing rod 6. Thereby meeting the requirements of use.
The second embodiment
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In this embodiment, the structures of the two auxiliary springs 8 are the same as the structures of the auxiliary springs 8 described in the first embodiment, and will not be repeated here.
The working principle of the high-voltage DC relay with an auxiliary contact of the present disclosure is as follows: in the normal state, the coil is not energized, and the movable contact piece 2 is separated from the two stationary contacts 1, that is, the main contact is in an open state, the movable iron core 12 is at the lowest position under the action of the reaction spring 14, and the tops of the two auxiliary springs 8 clamp the conductive portion 61 of the pushing rod 6, that is, the auxiliary contact is in a close state, as shown in
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In this embodiment, the insulating film 17 has an annular structure and wraps around the peripheral side surface of the bottom of the pushing rod 6. The conductive portion 61 is integrally formed with the pushing rod 6 and is located under the insulating film 17, and the conductive portion 61 has peripheral side surface. The on/off state of the main contact formed by the two stationary contacts 1 and the movable contact piece 2 is same as the on/off state of the auxiliary contact formed by the two auxiliary springs 8 and the pushing rod 6. The insulating portion is an insulating film 17, which has a simple structure and convenient installation. The conductive portion 61 is directly integrally formed with the pushing rod 6, thereby avoiding additional conductive portions.
The working principle of the high-voltage DC relay with an auxiliary contact of the present disclosure is as follows: in the normal state, the coil is not energized, and the movable contact piece 2 is separated from the two stationary contacts 1, that is, the main contact is in an open state, the movable iron core 12 is at the lowest position under the action of the reaction spring 14, and the tops of the two auxiliary springs 8 clamp the insulating film 17 on the pushing rod 6, that is, the two auxiliary springs 8 are separated by the insulating film 17, and the auxiliary contact is in an open state. When the coil is energized, the movable iron core 12 moves upward under the action of the magnetic field, compresses the reaction spring 4, and drives the pushing rod 6 to move upward, as the pushing rod 6 moves upward, the movable contact piece 2 moves upward until it contacts the bottom of the two stationary contacts 1 and the contact spring 13 is compressed; at the same time, the insulating film 17 on the pushing rod 6 gradually moves upward to separate from the two auxiliary springs 8, and the conductive portion 61 of the pushing rod 6 enters the clamping range of the two auxiliary springs 8 and effectively contacts the tops of the two auxiliary springs 8, that is, the auxiliary contact is turned on. Therefore, the on/off state of the auxiliary contact is the same as that of the main contact, and the auxiliary contact can feed back the on/off state of the main contact of the high-voltage DC relay.
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The working principle of the high-voltage DC relay with an auxiliary contact of the present disclosure is as follows: in the normal state, the coil is not energized, and the movable contact piece 2 is separated from the two stationary contacts 1, that is, the main contact is in an open state, the movable iron core 12 is at the lowest position under the action of the reaction spring 14, and the tops of the two auxiliary springs 8 clamp the conductive portion 61 of the pushing rod 6, that is, the auxiliary contact is in an close state. When the coil is energized, the movable iron core 12 moves upward under the action of the magnetic field, compresses the reaction spring 4, and drives the pushing rod 6 to move upward, as the pushing rod 6 moves upward, the movable contact piece 2 moves upward until it contacts the bottom of the two stationary contacts 1 and the contact spring 13 is compressed; at the same time, the conductive portion 61 of the pushing rod 6 gradually moves upward to separate from the two auxiliary springs 8, and the insulating film 17 of the pushing rod 6 enters the clamping range of the two auxiliary springs 8 and effectively contacts the tops of the two auxiliary springs 8, that is, the auxiliary contact is cut off. Therefore, the on/off state of the auxiliary contact is opposite to that of the main contact, and the auxiliary contact can feed back the on/off state of the main contact of the high-voltage DC relay.
The embodiments described above are only used to further illustrate a high-voltage DC relay with auxiliary contact of the present disclosure, but the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments. Any simple modification or equivalent of the above embodiments is made based on the technical essence of the present disclosure. The changes and modifications all fall within the protection scope of the technical solution of the present disclosure.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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202011184526.1 | Oct 2020 | CN | national |
The present disclosure is based upon PCT Application No. PCT/IB2021/058671, filed on 23 Sep. 2021, which claims priority to Chinese patent application No. 202011184526.1, titled “High-voltage DC relay with auxiliary contact”, filed on Oct. 29, 2020, the entire contents thereof are incorporated herein by reference.
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/IB2021/058671 | 9/23/2021 | WO |