A press-fit fixing portion fixes a drive unit and a relay unit by press-fitting a claw portion and the recess portion. A sealing member is provided on an outside of the relay unit and the drive unit. An inner cover forms a sealed space for sealing an arc-extinguishing gas together with the sealing member. An electromagnetic relay is configured to make it possible both an adjustment of a press-fitting amount of the claw portion and the recess portion and an adjustment of the gap between a ceramic insulator at an end of a shaft and a movable element by making each of the relay unit and the drive unit in a manufacturing process to the same state as in when a magnetizing coil is energized.

In an embodiment a switching device includes at least one stationary contact in a switching chamber containing a gas comprising H.sub.2 and one movable contact in the switching chamber, wherein the switching chamber has a switching chamber wall and a switching chamber base, and wherein the switching chamber at least partially comprises a polymer material configured to release hydrogen when heated.

A switching device is disclosed. In an embodiment a switching device includes at least one stationary contact and a movable contact in a switching chamber configured to contain a gas containing H.sub.2, wherein the movable contact is movable by a magnetic armature with a shaft, wherein the shaft projects through an opening in a yoke which is part of a magnetic circuit, and wherein a liner composed of a plastic is arranged in the opening of the yoke, the liner configured to guide the shaft.

A hermetically sealed electromagnetic contactor includes a pair of fixed contact pieces having fixed contacts, a movable contact piece having a pair of movable contacts and capable of coming into contact with and being separated from the fixed contacts of the pair of fixed contact pieces, an electromagnet unit configured to drive the movable contact piece, a hermetically sealed container configured to house the pair of fixed contact pieces, the movable contact piece, and the electromagnet unit in the same space in a hermetically sealed manner and being filled with arc-extinguishing gas, and two pairs of arc-extinguishing permanent magnets arranged inside the hermetically sealed container and configured to stretch arcs generated between the fixed contacts of the pair of fixed contact pieces and the pair of movable contacts of the movable contact piece.

A gas filling structure includes a through-hole (91) formed in a hermetically sealed container (11) made of resin to fill the hermetically sealed container (11) with gas and a screw (92) fastened to the through-hole (91) to seal the through-hole (91).

The invention relates to a switching device which has two stationary contacts and a movable contact in a switching chamber. The stationary contacts are arranged next to each other along a longitudinal direction, and the switching chamber has a switching chamber wall with opposing transversal lateral wall parts and opposing longitudinal lateral wall parts. Each of the two stationary contacts is arranged at a distance to one of the transversal lateral wall parts, said distance being shorter than the respective distance to the longitudinal lateral wall parts.

In an embodiment a switching device includes at least two fixed contacts and one movable contact in a switching chamber and at least two auxiliary contacts, two spring contacts and a contact plate in the switching chamber, wherein each of the spring contacts contacts one of the auxiliary contacts with a first contact region and has a second contact region, wherein the contact plate is movable together with the movable contact, and wherein the contact plate is configured to contact the second contact regions of the spring contacts in a first switching state of the switching device and is configured to be arranged at a distance from the second contact regions of the spring contacts in a second switching state.

The contact device includes a main contact mechanism that includes a pair of main fixed contacts and a main movable contact elastically supported by a movable shaft and disposed to be contactable with and separable from the pair of main fixed contacts, an auxiliary contact mechanism that includes a pair of auxiliary fixed contacts and auxiliary movable contacts disposed in an auxiliary contact holding member connected to the movable shaft so as to be contactable with and separable from the pair of auxiliary fixed contacts, and a contact housing portion that houses the main contact mechanism and the auxiliary contact mechanism. The movable shaft has a main contact support portion supporting the main movable contact and an auxiliary contact support portion supporting the auxiliary contact holding member. The main contact support portion and the auxiliary contact support portion are connected to each other via the auxiliary contact holding member.

A connecting structure between lead-out pins of auxiliary stationary contacts and a yoke plate of a DC relay, includes a yoke plate and a plurality of auxiliary stationary contact lead-out terminal assemblies mounted on the yoke plate; each auxiliary stationary contact lead-out terminal assembly includes a lead-out pins, a glass material body and a kovar alloy part; the lead-out terminal, the glass material body and the kovar alloy part are connected into a whole by sintering, and the lead-out terminal and the kovar alloy part are insulated from each other by glass material; the auxiliary stationary contact lead-out terminal assembly is welded and fixed to the yoke plate through the kovar alloy part.

A hermetically sealed electromagnetic contactor includes a main contact unit (21) configured to open and close an electrical path of a main circuit by moving along a predetermined opening/closing direction, an electromagnet unit (23) configured to switch opening/closing of the main contact unit (21), a container body (12) made of resin inside which the main contact unit (21) and the electromagnet unit (23) are arranged, an auxiliary contact unit (22) disposed outside the container body (12) on one side in the opening/closing direction of the main contact unit (21) and configured to open and close an electrical path of an auxiliary circuit by moving along the opening/closing direction in conjunction with the main contact unit (21), and an auxiliary contact housing portion (13) made of resin inside which the auxiliary contact unit (22) is arranged, the auxiliary contact housing portion (13) communicating with the inside of the container body (12), in which the insides of the container body (12) and the auxiliary contact housing portion (13) are filled with insulating gas.