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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

Break Arcs Driven by Transverse Magnetic Field in a DC48 V/6-24 A Resistive Circuit

Toru SUGIURA, Junya SEKIKAWA, Takayoshi KUBONO

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Silver electrical contacts are separated to generate break arcs in a DC48 V/6-24 A resistive circuit. The transverse magnetic field formed by a permanent magnet is applied to the break arcs. A series of experiments are carried out for two different experimental conditions. One condition is a constant contact separating speed while the magnetic flux density is changed to investigate the shortening effect of the arc duration. Another condition is a constant magnetic flux density while the contact separating speed is changed to investigate the changes in the arc duration and the contact gap when the break arc is extinguished. As a result, with constant separating speed, it is confirmed that the duration of break arcs is shortened by the transverse magnetic field and the break arcs are extinguished when the arc length reaches a certain value L. Under the condition of constant transverse magnetic field, (i) the arc duration is shortened by increasing the separation speed; (ii) the contact gap when the break arc is extinguished is almost constant when the separating speed v is sufficiently faster than 5 mm/s.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E94-C No.9 pp.1381-1387
Publication Date
2011/09/01
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1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E94.C.1381
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Development of Electro-Mechanical Devices – Papers selected from International Session on Electro-Mechanical Devices (IS-EMD2010) and other research results –)
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