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Electromagnetic Actuator with Novel Electric Brake for Circuit Breaker

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 21, Number 3, 30 Sep 2016, Pages 340-347
Byungjun Bae (Agency for Defense Development), Minjae Kim * (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Myongji University)
Abstract

At the stroke end of an electromagnetic circuit breaker, the high speed of the mover makes a huge impact at the contact point, which induces the rebound problem of the mover that causes a breaker failure. Thus, a speed reduction equipment is required to address such problems. This study suggests to use an electric brake reduces the speed at the end of the stroke. The proposed circuit breaker which adopts the electric brake has a variable speed reduction function such that the continued rebound phenomenon ceases to occur. The electric brake is designed by the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the circuit and motion equations are solved using Time Difference Method (TDM). The comparisons between the simulation and experiments demonstrated the usefulness and validity of this study.

 

Keywords: circuit breaker; electromagnetic actuator; electric brake; dynamic characteristic analysis
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2016.21.3.340
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