A method of pressure-filling a container includes placing its opening tightly against a filling element, extending a return gas tube into the container, causing and measuring a progression of pressures in the container's interior, thereby generating a measured progression of pressures, generating a signal indicative of the measured progression of pressures, recording it, monitoring it for information indicative of a pressure peak, identifying such information, comparing a measured value of the pressure peak with a reference value, measuring an absolute pressure at a point in time at which the pressure peak is measured, based at least in part this measurement, determining that the pressure peak is caused by the filling-material level having reached the return gas tube, and upon making the determination, transmitting closing the filling element.

The invention relates to a step switch, comprising a pre-selector and a fine selector. The invention is characterized in that the step switch has a connection (36) between the pre-selector and the fine selector (18), at least one coupling switch (38) being arranged in said connection. A pre-selector can be switched in a largely gas-free manner by means of said switchable connection with the aid of the fine selector.

The invention relates to a switching device, in particular an on-load tap changer, having a housing and at least one exchangeable switching module. The switching device (1), in particular on-load tap changer, comprises a housing (2); an exchangeable switching module (3, 3, 3); a fixed contact (20) arranged inside the housing (2); a guide rail (25) arranged inside the housing (2). The switching module (3, 3, 3) has a movable contact (10) that can be releasably connected to the fixed contact (20). The switching module (3, 3, 3) has a lower distribution plate (51) that is movably connected to the guide rail (25).

The present invention relates to an on-load tap changer device, which allows the automatic regulation of voltage in the secondary winding (28) of high-voltage electrical equipment (26, 65) by selecting the number of turns of the primary winding (27) by means of an on-load tap changer device (1, 40), having reduced volume and weight, obtaining the highest possible number of transformation ratios without changing the constructive arrangement of the high-voltage electrical equipment (26, 65).

A system for determining when an electrical contact or other component reaches a predetermined temperature. In operation, a trace material is dispersed into a surrounding environment (e.g., head space within a compartment above insulating oil), where the trace material is detected. A barrier may be ruptured or broken by temperature-induced gas pressure, or pierced by a spring-loaded member that is located within the same section that contains the trace material, and devices may be provided for moving the trace material through the foil barrier as the barrier is ruptured. The barrier may be opened solely by internal gas pressure. According to another embodiment, improved fail-safe operation may be achieved by providing a spring-loaded member and configuring the barrier to be ruptured by the pressure of the detectable gas material before the barrier is ruptured by the spring-loaded member.

In an on-load tap changer (10) for controlling voltage of a tapped transformer (15) it is provided that the tapped transformer (15) has at least one regulatable phase (16) that has a first winding (20) and a second winding (30); the first winding (20) has a regulating winding (21) with even-numbered winding taps (23) and a main winding (22), and the second winding (30) has a regulating winding (31) with odd-numbered winding taps (33) and a main winding (32); the first winding (20) and the second winding (30) having the regulating windings (21, 31) of the even-numbered and of the odd-numbered winding taps (23, 33), are inductively coupled; the on-load tap changer (10) has a selector (40) for the alternating power-free preselection of the even-numbered or odd-numbered winding taps (23, 33) to be switched.

An on-load tap-changer of a tap-changing transformer has a switch. The switch has: a take-off contact; a primary fixed contact; and a contact unit. The contact unit has a moving contact, a first arcing contact and a second arcing contact. These contacts are pivotable about a pivot axis during a switchover process such that the contacts assume a first position, in which they make contact with the take-off contact and the primary fixed contact, and a second position, in which they are separated from the take-off contact and the primary fixed contact. The second arcing contact assumes the first position before the first arcing contact when switching over from the second position to the first position and leaves the first position after the first arcing contact when switching over from the first position to the second position.

In a method for cleaning an on-load tap changer (19) in a regulating transformer (20), provision is made for the on-load tap changer (19) to comprise a moving contact (11) and a fixed contact (12); for a cleaning signal to be generated; for the moving contact (11) to be frictionally moved relative to the fixed contact (12) on the basis of the cleaning signal. An on-load tap changer (19) in a regulating transformer (20) comprises: a moving contact (11) and a fixed contact (12); a contact drive (17) which is coupled to the moving contact (11); a control device (18) which is connected to the contact drive (17) and is designed in such a manner that the control device can generate a cleaning signal and can transmit said signal to the contact drive (17); wherein the contact drive (17) is designed in such a manner that the contact drive can frictionally move the moving contact (11) relative to the fixed contact (12) on the basis of the cleaning signal.

A permanent magnet drive on-load tap-changing switch including a changing switch circuit that includes an odd- and an even-numbered tap-changing circuit that are structurally identical. The tap-changing circuits include working contactors and dual-contact synchronous transition contactors made of primary contactors and secondary contactors. The working contactors and the dual-contact synchronous transition contactors directly face moving contactors. The moving contactors are connected in parallel to each other. Moving contactor permanent magnets are bijectively connected onto the moving contactors. The moving contactor permanent magnets directly face on the other extremity thereof a moving contactor driving mechanism. The moving contactor driving mechanism moves the permanent magnets. The switch is structurally simple and convenient to use, obviates the need for a highspeed mechanism, implements changing by direct actions of the contactors, operates at high speed and reliably, has a low failure rate, an extended service life, and value for widespread use.

Disclosed are a passive triggered-power electronic tap-changer device and a contact device. The power electronic tap-changer device comprises: two taps, a main contact, two auxiliary contacts, two trigger contacts, an output terminal, two thyristors, and four voltage divider resistors, which can achieve the passive triggering of a power electronic switch by means of controlling the auxiliary contacts and the trigger contacts. Provided in the present invention is a contact device for the passive triggered-power electronic tap-changer, comprising: at least two stationary contacts, a main contact, two thyristor trigger contacts, two thyristor auxiliary contacts, and a drive shaft, wherein the main contact, the thyristor trigger contacts, and the thyristor auxiliary contacts are fixed to the drive shaft, the contact device can switch the power electronic switch to different stationary contacts by means of controlling the rotation of the drive shaft, and maintains the switching time sequence of passive triggering.