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EP1243011B1
EP1243011B1 EP00993754A EP00993754A EP1243011B1 EP 1243011 B1 EP1243011 B1 EP 1243011B1 EP 00993754 A EP00993754 A EP 00993754A EP 00993754 A EP00993754 A EP 00993754A EP 1243011 B1 EP1243011 B1 EP 1243011B1
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Pascal Alexandre
Régis Perrocheau
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01HELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H50/00Details of electromagnetic relays
    • H01H50/16Magnetic circuit arrangements
    • H01H50/18Movable parts of magnetic circuits, e.g. armature
    • H01H50/32Latching movable parts mechanically
    • H01H50/326Latching movable parts mechanically with manual intervention, e.g. for testing, resetting or mode selection
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01HELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H9/00Details of switching devices, not covered by groups H01H1/00 - H01H7/00
    • H01H9/20Interlocking, locking, or latching mechanisms
    • H01H9/28Interlocking, locking, or latching mechanisms for locking switch parts by a key or equivalent removable member
    • H01H9/287Interlocking, locking, or latching mechanisms for locking switch parts by a key or equivalent removable member wherein the operating part is made inaccessible or more difficult to access by a lid, cover or guard, e.g. lockable covers

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  • the present invention relates to an electromechanical contactor comprising a housing which houses a mobile contact support, the housing having a front portion provided of connection terminals accessible by a front face, as well as a pusher mobile that is linked to the contact support and is visible and accessible by the face before.
  • a contactor is described for example in DE-A-2 950 438.
  • Contactors of this type are commonly used to control loads low voltage electric. It is often planned to fix at the front of the case a such contactor an electromechanical additive block having an auxiliary function of signaling or other usable in an automation scheme.
  • the additive block has auxiliary contacts and a movable element arranged to cooperate with the pushbutton of the contactor housing to control the auxiliary contacts.
  • the block additive can be removably attached to the contactor housing, usually using shackles provided on the front of the housing. It turns out that one can visualize the state of the contactor depending on whether the pusher is pulled out or retracted on the front side; on the other hand, the pusher is also used to manually test the correct operation of the carrier of the contactor's movable contacts. But it can be dangerous to perform this test, which in fact switches the load when the contactor is under pressure.
  • the object of the invention is to prohibit the manual actuation of the pusher without altering the ability to view the state of the contactor and benefiting from the arrangements made the front of the contactor housing to ensure the attachment of a frontal additive block or in benefiting from similar provisions.
  • the housing of the contactor offers on its front face and near the pusher mobile coupling elements interlocking or snap adapted to receive an additive block that can be coupled to the pusher or adapted to a fitting in the direction the height of the housing; a cover is removably assembled to the part front housing to hide the mobile pusher, being mounted on the front housing using assembly forms cooperating with the fastening elements.
  • the mounting of the cache uses existing fastening elements for assemble an additive block and / or facilitate an intuitive assembly in the manner of a block additive.
  • the cover may advantageously be a wafer which has a portion transparent in front of the pusher and a recessed portion lined with grooves guide to fit and slide, in the direction of the height of the contactor, on the fastening elements; stop shoulders provided at the ends of the grooves preferably cooperate with abutment parts provided in particular on the fastening elements.
  • the cover preferably has a width substantially identical to that of the housing and a height such that the terminals remain accessible when assembled to the housing, while that it offers on a large side a transversal surface adjacent to the terminals and facilitating the wiring.
  • the contactor shown comprises a housing 10 having a front portion 10a and a rear part 10b.
  • the rear portion 10b is arranged to allow the attachment of the contactor on a support, while the front portion 10a provides a front face 11 provided with openings 12 for access to terminals 13.
  • the terminals have a control or command function, while other terminals 14 of contactor, namely power terminals, are located at the rear of terminals 13. It is of course any other arrangement of the terminals may be provided, the terminals 13 in particular being able to be power terminals.
  • the front face 11 has an opening 15 through which the end protrudes free 16a of a movable pusher 16 secured to or connected to a movable contact holder not represented, which is housed in the housing 10 and which is able to move perpendicularly to the front face 11 in response to the solicitation of an electromagnet.
  • the end 16a of the pusher is output when the contactor is at rest (illustrated state figure 1) and retracted when the contactor is activated.
  • the pusher acts as a drive member for a contact carrier member specific to the additive.
  • the pusher has a test function to allow a operator to check, by pressing the pusher, if the switch operates normally.
  • the grooves 18 and 19a allow the sliding of the additive block 30 or a cache 20 parallel to the front face 11 of the contactor and in the direction of the height switch (as indicated by the arrow in Figure 3).
  • the sliding of the additive block or cache allows the attachment, here by interlocking, on the fixed pins 17 and the 19.
  • the tenons 17 further have a stop function for the additive block or for Cache.
  • the cover 20 is a plate of opaque insulating plastic of general contour rectangular provided with a central transparent portion 21 such as a window located, in the mounted position (FIG. 2), in front of the driving end 16a of the pusher 16 and to see the state of it and thus to note the state on or off of the contactor. It is understood that the cache simultaneously prohibits any test operation to the operator.
  • the cover 20 comprises towards the front face 11 of the contactor a rear face 20a which comes to apply when nesting against the face 11 and remains in contact against this face by draft effects including grooves 23.
  • the cache 20 provides a recessed portion 22 lined with guide grooves 23 to slide on the elements 17,19 with at the end of the grooves abutment shoulders 24 which cooperate with the tenons 17.
  • the grooves 23 have a first portion 23a cooperating with the grooves 19a and a second portion 23b, narrower than the portion 23a, cooperating with the grooves 18 (themselves less spaced than the grooves 19a).
  • the cover can thus be engaged and maintained very easily, in the manner a passive additive.
  • in the lower part of the recessed portion 22 opens a passage 25 for a sealing member 26 which blocks the pusher.
  • the cover 20 provides a flat transverse surface 27 which facilitates the wiring in the access openings 12 to the terminals 13.
  • the additive block 30 has a rear face 31 with a movable plug 32 perpendicularly to the front face 11 of the housing 10 and attachable to the end 16a of the 16.
  • the block 30 can be applied to the front face 11 (see Figure 3).
  • the block additive 30 has guide grooves 33 adapted to cooperate with the grooves 18 of the 17 and with the grooves 19a of the projection 19. Shoulders 34 are provided at edge of the grooves 33 to apply at the end of the nesting race according to the arrow of Figure 3 against the tenons. It goes without saying that if other means are insert or snap the additive block on the contactor housing, the cover can be removably attached to the front portion of the housing 10 using these means.

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La présente invention concerne un contacteur électromécanique comprenant un boítier qui loge un support de contacts mobile, le boítier présentant une partie frontale munie de bornes de raccordement accessibles par une face avant, ainsi qu'un poussoir mobile qui est lié au support de contacts et qui est visible et accessible par la face avant. Un tel contacteur est décrit par exemple dans DE-A-2 950 438.The present invention relates to an electromechanical contactor comprising a housing which houses a mobile contact support, the housing having a front portion provided of connection terminals accessible by a front face, as well as a pusher mobile that is linked to the contact support and is visible and accessible by the face before. Such a contactor is described for example in DE-A-2 950 438.

Des contacteurs de ce type s'utilisent couramment pour commander des charges électriques en basse tension. Il est fréquemment prévu de fixer à l'avant du boítier d'un tel contacteur un bloc additif électromécanique ayant une fonction auxiliaire de signalisation ou autre utilisable dans un schéma d'automatisme. Le bloc additif possède des contacts auxiliaires et un élément mobile disposé pour coopérer avec le poussoir du boítier du contacteur afin de commander les contacts auxiliaires. Le bloc additif peut être attaché de manière amovible au boítier du contacteur, généralement à l'aide de formes d'accrochage prévues sur la face avant du boítier. Il s'avère que l'on peut visualiser l'état du contacteur selon que le poussoir est sorti ou rentré par rapport à la face avant ; d'autre part, le poussoir sert également à tester manuellement le bon fonctionnement du support des contacts mobiles du contacteur. Or il peut être dangereux d'effectuer ce test, qui en effet commute la charge lorsque le contacteur est sous tension.Contactors of this type are commonly used to control loads low voltage electric. It is often planned to fix at the front of the case a such contactor an electromechanical additive block having an auxiliary function of signaling or other usable in an automation scheme. The additive block has auxiliary contacts and a movable element arranged to cooperate with the pushbutton of the contactor housing to control the auxiliary contacts. The block additive can be removably attached to the contactor housing, usually using shackles provided on the front of the housing. It turns out that one can visualize the state of the contactor depending on whether the pusher is pulled out or retracted on the front side; on the other hand, the pusher is also used to manually test the correct operation of the carrier of the contactor's movable contacts. But it can be dangerous to perform this test, which in fact switches the load when the contactor is under pressure.

L'invention a pour but d'interdire l'actionnement manuel du poussoir sans altérer la faculté de visualiser l'état du contacteur et en bénéficiant des dispositions prises à l'avant du boítier du contacteur pour assurer la fixation d'un bloc additif frontal ou en bénéficiant des dispositions analogues.The object of the invention is to prohibit the manual actuation of the pusher without altering the ability to view the state of the contactor and benefiting from the arrangements made the front of the contactor housing to ensure the attachment of a frontal additive block or in benefiting from similar provisions.

Selon l'invention, le boítier du contacteur offre sur sa face avant et près du poussoir mobile des éléments d'accrochage par emboítement ou encliquetage adaptés à recevoir un bloc additif accouplable au poussoir ou adaptés à un montage dans le sens de la hauteur du boítier ; un cache est assemblé de manière amovible à la partie frontale du boítier pour masquer le poussoir mobile, en étant monté sur la partie avant du boítier à l'aide de formes d'assemblage coopérant avec les éléments d'accrochage. De la sorte, le montage du cache utilise des éléments d'accrochage existants pour assembler un bloc additif et/ou facilite un assemblage intuitif à la manière d'un bloc additif.According to the invention, the housing of the contactor offers on its front face and near the pusher mobile coupling elements interlocking or snap adapted to receive an additive block that can be coupled to the pusher or adapted to a fitting in the direction the height of the housing; a cover is removably assembled to the part front housing to hide the mobile pusher, being mounted on the front housing using assembly forms cooperating with the fastening elements. In this way, the mounting of the cache uses existing fastening elements for assemble an additive block and / or facilitate an intuitive assembly in the manner of a block additive.

Le cache peut avantageusement être une plaquette qui présente une partie transparente située devant le poussoir et une partie évidée bordée de rainures de guidage pour s'emboíter et se glisser, dans le sens de la hauteur du contacteur, sur les éléments d'accrochage ; des épaulements de butée prévus en bout des rainures coopèrent de préférence avec des parties de butée prévues notamment sur les éléments d'accrochage.The cover may advantageously be a wafer which has a portion transparent in front of the pusher and a recessed portion lined with grooves guide to fit and slide, in the direction of the height of the contactor, on the fastening elements; stop shoulders provided at the ends of the grooves preferably cooperate with abutment parts provided in particular on the fastening elements.

Le cache a de préférence une largeur sensiblement identique à celle du boítier et une hauteur telle que les bornes restent accessibles lorsqu'il est assemblé au boítier, tandis qu'il offre sur un grand côté une surface transversale adjacente aux bornes et facilitant le câblage.The cover preferably has a width substantially identical to that of the housing and a height such that the terminals remain accessible when assembled to the housing, while that it offers on a large side a transversal surface adjacent to the terminals and facilitating the wiring.

La description va être faite ci-après d'un mode de réalisation non limitatif de l'invention, en regard des dessins annexés.

  • La figure 1 représente en perspective un contacteur conforme à l'invention, dépourvu de cache frontal.
  • La figure 2 est une vue identique montrant le cache assemblé au boítier du contacteur.
  • La figure 3 est une vue en élévation schématique montrant la partie frontale du contacteur et un additif ou le cache non assemblés.
  • La figure 4 est une vue de dessus éclatée de la partie frontale du contacteur et du cache.
  • La figure 5 montre en perspective de dessus la partie frontale du contacteur avec le cache
  • La figure 6 est une vue en perspective du cache.
  • The description will be made hereinafter of a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, with reference to the accompanying drawings.
  • Figure 1 shows in perspective a contactor according to the invention, without a front cover.
  • Figure 2 is an identical view showing the assembled cover to the housing of the contactor.
  • Figure 3 is a schematic elevational view showing the front portion of the contactor and an additive or the unassembled cover.
  • Figure 4 is an exploded top view of the front portion of the contactor and the cover.
  • FIG. 5 shows in perspective from above the front part of the contactor with the cover
  • Figure 6 is a perspective view of the cache.
  • Le contacteur représenté comprend un boítier 10 présentant une partie frontale 10a et une partie arrière 10b. La partie arrière 10b est agencée pour permettre la fixation du contacteur sur un support, tandis que la partie frontale 10a offre une face avant 11 dotée d'ouvertures 12 d'accès à des bornes 13. Dans le présent exemple, les bornes ont une fonction de contrôle ou commande, tandis que d'autres bornes 14 du contacteur, à savoir des bornes de puissance, sont situées à l'arrière des bornes 13. Il va de soi que toute autre disposition des bornes peut être prévue , les bornes 13 pouvant en particulier être des bornes de puissance.The contactor shown comprises a housing 10 having a front portion 10a and a rear part 10b. The rear portion 10b is arranged to allow the attachment of the contactor on a support, while the front portion 10a provides a front face 11 provided with openings 12 for access to terminals 13. In this example, the terminals have a control or command function, while other terminals 14 of contactor, namely power terminals, are located at the rear of terminals 13. It is of course any other arrangement of the terminals may be provided, the terminals 13 in particular being able to be power terminals.

    La face avant 11 est dotée d'une ouverture 15 à travers laquelle fait saillie l'extrémité libre 16a d'un poussoir mobile 16 solidaire de, ou lié à, un porte-contacts mobile non représenté, qui est logé dans le boítier 10 et qui est apte à se déplacer perpendiculairement à la face avant 11 en réponse à la sollicitation d'un électroaimant. L'extrémité 16a du poussoir est sortie quand le contacteur est au repos (état illustré figure 1) et rentrée quand le contacteur est activé. Lorsqu'un bloc additif 30 de contacts auxiliaires est rapporté au contacteur, d'une manière décrite plus loin en regard de la figure 3, le poussoir a un rôle d'organe d'entraínement pour un organe porte-contacts propre à l'additif. De plus, le poussoir a une fonction de test afin de permettre à un opérateur de vérifier, en pressant le poussoir, si le contacteur fonctionne normalement.The front face 11 has an opening 15 through which the end protrudes free 16a of a movable pusher 16 secured to or connected to a movable contact holder not represented, which is housed in the housing 10 and which is able to move perpendicularly to the front face 11 in response to the solicitation of an electromagnet. The end 16a of the pusher is output when the contactor is at rest (illustrated state figure 1) and retracted when the contactor is activated. When an additive block 30 of contacts auxiliaries is reported to the contactor, in a manner described below with reference to the 3, the pusher acts as a drive member for a contact carrier member specific to the additive. In addition, the pusher has a test function to allow a operator to check, by pressing the pusher, if the switch operates normally.

    Il est prévu en saillie sur la face avant 11 du boítier 10 d'une part deux tenons fixes 17 dotés vers l'extérieur (à gauche et à droite sur la figure 1) de rainures 18 et d'autre part une saillie de guidage 19 voisine des tenons fixes et dotée vers l'extérieur de rainures 19a. Les rainures 18 et 19a permettent le coulissement du bloc additif 30 ou d'un cache 20 parallèlement à la face avant 11 du contacteur et dans le sens de la hauteur du contacteur (sens indiqué par la flèche de la figure 3). Le coulissement du bloc additif ou du cache en permet l'accrochage, ici par emboítement, sur les tenons fixes 17 et la saillie 19. Les tenons 17 ont en outre une fonction de butée pour le bloc additif ou pour le cache. It is provided projecting on the front face 11 of the housing 10 on the one hand two fixed tenons 17 outwardly (to the left and to the right in FIG. 1) with grooves 18 and on the other hand a guide projection 19 adjacent fixed tenons and outwardly provided with grooves 19a. The grooves 18 and 19a allow the sliding of the additive block 30 or a cache 20 parallel to the front face 11 of the contactor and in the direction of the height switch (as indicated by the arrow in Figure 3). The sliding of the additive block or cache allows the attachment, here by interlocking, on the fixed pins 17 and the 19. The tenons 17 further have a stop function for the additive block or for Cache.

    Le cache 20 est une plaquette en matière plastique isolante opaque de contour général rectangulaire munie d'une partie transparente centrale 21 telle qu'une fenêtre située, en position montée (figure 2), devant l'extrémité menante 16a du poussoir 16 et permettant de voir l'état de celui-ci et donc de constater l'état marche ou arrêt du contacteur. On comprend que le cache interdit simultanément toute opération de test à l'opérateur.The cover 20 is a plate of opaque insulating plastic of general contour rectangular provided with a central transparent portion 21 such as a window located, in the mounted position (FIG. 2), in front of the driving end 16a of the pusher 16 and to see the state of it and thus to note the state on or off of the contactor. It is understood that the cache simultaneously prohibits any test operation to the operator.

    Le cache 20 comprend vers la face avant 11 du contacteur une face arrière 20a qui vient s'appliquer lors de l'emboítement contre la face 11 et reste maintenue en contact étroit contre cette face par des effets de dépouille notamment des rainures 23. Le cache 20 offre une partie évidée 22 bordée de rainures de guidage 23 pour se glisser sur les éléments 17,19 avec au bout des rainures des épaulements 24 de butée qui coopèrent avec les tenons 17. Les rainures 23 présentent une première partie 23a coopérant avec les rainures 19a et une deuxième partie 23b, plus étroite que la partie 23a, coopérant avec les rainures 18 (elles-mêmes moins écartées que les rainures 19a). Le cache peut ainsi être engagé et maintenu de manière très facile, à la manière d'un additif passif. De plus, dans la partie inférieure de la partie évidée 22 débouche un passage 25 pour un organe de plombage 26 qui permet de bloquer le poussoir. A sa partie supérieure, le cache 20 offre une surface transversale plane 27 qui facilite le câblage dans les ouvertures 12 d'accès aux bornes 13.The cover 20 comprises towards the front face 11 of the contactor a rear face 20a which comes to apply when nesting against the face 11 and remains in contact against this face by draft effects including grooves 23. The cache 20 provides a recessed portion 22 lined with guide grooves 23 to slide on the elements 17,19 with at the end of the grooves abutment shoulders 24 which cooperate with the tenons 17. The grooves 23 have a first portion 23a cooperating with the grooves 19a and a second portion 23b, narrower than the portion 23a, cooperating with the grooves 18 (themselves less spaced than the grooves 19a). The cover can thus be engaged and maintained very easily, in the manner a passive additive. Moreover, in the lower part of the recessed portion 22 opens a passage 25 for a sealing member 26 which blocks the pusher. At its upper part, the cover 20 provides a flat transverse surface 27 which facilitates the wiring in the access openings 12 to the terminals 13.

    Le bloc additif 30 présente une face arrière 31 dotée d'une prise 32 mobile perpendiculairement à la face avant 11 du boítier 10 et attelable à l'extrémité 16a du poussoir 16. Le bloc 30 peut être appliqué sur la face avant 11 (voir figure 3). Le bloc additif 30 a des rainures de guidage 33 aptes à coopérer avec les rainures 18 des tenons 17 et avec les rainures 19a de la saillie 19. Des épaulements 34 sont prévus au bord des rainures 33 pour s'appliquer en fin de course d'emboítement selon la flèche de la figure 3 contre les tenons 17. Il va de soi que si d'autres moyens sont prévus pour emboíter ou encliqueter le bloc additif sur le boítier du contacteur, le cache pourra être fixé de façon amovible à la partie avant du boítier 10 à l'aide de ces moyens.The additive block 30 has a rear face 31 with a movable plug 32 perpendicularly to the front face 11 of the housing 10 and attachable to the end 16a of the 16. The block 30 can be applied to the front face 11 (see Figure 3). The block additive 30 has guide grooves 33 adapted to cooperate with the grooves 18 of the 17 and with the grooves 19a of the projection 19. Shoulders 34 are provided at edge of the grooves 33 to apply at the end of the nesting race according to the arrow of Figure 3 against the tenons. It goes without saying that if other means are insert or snap the additive block on the contactor housing, the cover can be removably attached to the front portion of the housing 10 using these means.

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    1. An electromechanical contactor comprising a casing which houses a mobile contact holder, the casing (10) having a front portion (10a) provided with connection terminals accessible through a front face (11), as well as a mobile push-button (16) which is connected to the contact holder and which is visible and accessible through the front face, characterised in that
      the casing (10) of the contactor provides, on its front face (11) near the push-button (16), catches (17, 19) suitable for receiving an ancillary block which may be coupled to the push-button,
      a cover (20) is removably assembled with the front portion (10a) of the casing in order to hide the push-button (16), by being mounted on this front portion by means of assembly shapes (23) cooperating with the catches (17, 19).
    2. The contactor according to claim 1, characterised in that the cover (20) is a small plate which has a hollowed-out portion (22) and that the assembly shapes (23) are guide grooves (23) along the edge of the hollowed-out portion in order to enable the small plate to be fitted by sliding it over the catches (17, 19).
    3. The contactor according to claim 2, characterised in that the guide grooves (23) are arranged in the direction of the height of the casing (10) of the contactor and are bounded by at least one abutment shoulder (24).
    4. The contactor according to claim 1, characterised in that the assembly shapes (23) of the cover (20) apply the latter against the front face (11) of the casing (10) of the contactor by a clearance effect so that the rear face (20a) of the cover (20) is in close contact with the front face of the casing.
    5. The contactor according to claim 1, characterised in that the cover (20) is made of opaque plastic material and has a transparent portion (21) located in front of the push-button.
    6. The contactor according to claim 1, characterised in that the casing (10) of the contactor has terminals (13) accessible through its front face (11), the cover (20) having a width substantially the same as that of the casing and a height such that the terminals remain accessible when it is assembled with the casing (10) and on one long side, a transverse surface (27) adjacent to the terminals (13).
    7. The contactor according to claim 1, characterised in that a passage (25) for a lead seal unit (26) opens into the hollowed-out portion (22) of the cover (20).
    8. An electromechanical contactor comprising a casing which houses a mobile contact holder, the casing (10) having a front portion (10a) provided with a front face (11) and connection terminals which are accessible through the front face, as well as a mobile push-button (16) which is connected to the contact holder and which is visible and accessible through the front face, characterised in that:
      the casing (10) of the contactor provides catches (17, 19) on its front face (11) and near the mobile push-button (16),
      a cover (20) is removably assembled with the front portion (10a) of the casing, in order to hide the push-button (16), by being mounted on the front portion of the casing by means of assembly shapes (23) which cooperate with the catches (17, 19) by sliding in the direction of the height of the casing.
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