Patent ID: 9640349
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H01H

Claim:
1. A gas circuit breaker having a fixed contact, a movable contact coming into contact with, and being dissociated from the fixed contact, a sealed tank having the fixed contact and the movable contact therein, an operating mechanism for driving the movable contact, and a mechanism unit provided between the sealed tank and the operating mechanism, the operating mechanism comprising: an elastic body as a driving source; a case for housing the elastic body; an actuator for holding and freeing a driving force of the elastic body; and a link mechanism for conveying the driving force of the elastic body to the movable contact, wherein the elastic body is made up of an opening elastic body and a closing elastic body, the opening elastic body is laterally disposed in an axial direction between the link mechanism and the actuator, and a flange provided on an opening elastic body case is integrated with a flange provided on a closing elastic body case, and space is provided between the flange of the opening elastic body case and the mechanism unit.