Patent ID: 7098762
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
1. An electromechanical switching device, comprising: a main contact including a number of main fixed contacts and a moveable main contact bridge; an auxiliary contact which leads during the switch-on process and which includes a number of auxiliary fixed contacts and a moveable auxiliary contact bridge; and a contact bridge carrier, provided for actuating the main contact bridge and the auxiliary contact bridge, wherein at least one of the contacts is mounted in a sprung manner, wherein the auxiliary contact bridge is elastically deformable between a first stable position and a second stable position relative to the contact bridge carrier, wherein, when the switching device is switched on, the auxiliary contact bridge in the first stable position closing the auxiliary contact which leads the main contact by the contact bridge carrier being actuated, and wherein, when the switching device is switched off, the auxiliary contact with the auxiliary contact bridge in the second stable position opening before the main contact by the contact bridge carrier being actuated in the opposite direction.