A manual disconnect switching device includes an external housing having a handle actuator. The manual disconnect switching device further includes a bellows actuator in communication with the handle actuator and hermetically sealed within an internal volume of the external housing. The bellows actuator includes a shaft and a biased bellows for switching the manual disconnect switching device between open and closed positions.

A disconnector device is provided for disconnecting an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit is switched by a contactor between an open position and a closed position, the disconnector device using the contactor for disconnecting the electric circuit. The disconnector device locks the contactor in the open position, in which open position contacts of the contactor are in a first position disconnecting the electrical circuit. An arrangement including the disconnector device and a contactor is also provided.

This rotary control system for a device includes a rotary control member, rotationally mobile about a first fixed axis, between first and second positions, and a rotary control handle, intended to be secured in rotation with the rotary member about the first axis. It also includes a blocking device, that can be selectively moved, when the rotary member is in its first position, between a blocking configuration, in which it prevents the movement of the rotary member to its second position, and a release configuration, wherein the movement of the rotary member to its second position. This system further includes a locking plate, rotationally mobile about the first axis relative to the rotary member, when the rotary member is in its first position, between a locking position, in which a first orifice passing through the rotary member is superposed with a second orifice passing through the locking plate.

An electronic switching device includes a housing with at least one housing door, a lockable rotary handle rotatable at least between an ON position and an OFF position, a handle locking device for locking the rotary handle at least in the OFF position when engaged, and a POFF device for preventing the rotary handle to be rotated and/or fixed in OFF position when activated. The electronic switching device further includes a locking coulisse, movably arranged at the electronic switching device and arrangeable in at least a first position, a second position and a third positions with respect to the housing of the electronic switching device. The locking coulisse is configured for allowing an engagement of the handle locking device and the POFF device in the first position, locking the housing door in the second position and blocking the activation of the handle locking device in the third position.

A system including at least one sub-system that includes a first actuator configured to control a supply of a respective energy; a power lockout system including at least one switch configured to open and close an electrical connection between a power supply and the first actuator; a body configured to move between a first position and a second position to open and close the electrical connection; and at least one processor configured to control, during a power down process, the first actuator of the each of the at least one sub-system to reduce the respective energy of the sub-system.

A switch box mechanism of an enclosed switch assembly. The switch box mechanism includes a swivel catch having an elongated body, a pivot configured to allow the swivel catch to rotate relative to an enclosure, and a catch end including a catch configured to engage with an enclosure lid, and a slide feature formed in the elongated body, a rod configured to couple to a switch engagement member that is configured to engage with a rotor of a line base assembly, the rod having a slide portion slidably engaged with the slide feature, and a spring configured to bias the swivel catch. Enclosed switch assemblies and switch subassemblies including the switch box mechanism, and methods of operating enclosed switch assemblies are disclosed, as are other aspects.

A manually operated disconnect maintains a machine/process in a de-energized state. The disconnect employs a sensor that automatically detects, via wireless communication, a lock affixed to the disconnect that locks the disconnect in an open state. Processing circuitry coupled to the sensor determines lockout tagout data, such as identification of a user associated with the lock, a time of application of the lock, and data identifying and/or locating the disconnect or a machine/process to which the disconnect provides power when in a closed state. Memory circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry stores the lockout tagout data, and holds it available for user review, transmission, analysis, reporting, and so forth.

A breaker actuator includes a slide plate, at least one actuator lever, and a drive plate. The slide plate is linearly movable. The actuator lever is rotatable about a pivot. The actuator lever engages the slide plate and rotational movement of the actuator lever is actuatable by linear movement of the slide plate. The drive plate is moveable between an off position and an on position and is actuatable by rotational motion of the at least one actuator lever. A method for actuating a breaker includes moving a slide plate linearly from a first position to a second position, rotating at least one actuator lever about a pivot from a first position to a second position by the linear movement of the slide plate, and moving a drive plate in front of an electrical breaker from an off position to an on position by the rotational motion of the actuator lever.

A disconnector device is provided for disconnecting an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit is switched by a contactor between an open position and a closed position, the disconnector device using the contactor for disconnecting the electric circuit. The disconnector device locks the contactor in the open position, in which open position contacts of the contactor are in a first position disconnecting the electrical circuit. An arrangement including the disconnector device and a contactor is also provided.

A padlock for securing and monitoring a switch of an industrial plant has a lock housing of plastic, furthermore a hoop which is displaceably held at the lock housing and a lock cylinder which is arranged in the lock housing and can selectively be brought from an open position into a locked position to lock the hoop to the lock housing. An RFID transponder is arranged in the lock housing. A securing and monitoring system for a switch of an industrial plant includes at least one such padlock and a mobile RFID reading device or an RFID reading device permanently attached in the environment of the switch, said RFID reading device being configured to read out the RFID transponder of the padlock.