US 11,942,777 B2
Disconnector device and overvoltage protection assembly including the same
Bastiaan Hubertus van Besouw, Strongsville, OH (US); Peter James Swales, Aiken, SC (US); Sidharth Suresh Iyer, Wadsworth, OH (US); Mohamed Fayaz Suleiman Khatri, Macedonia, OH (US); Stephen Franklin Poterala, Aiken, SC (US); Robert Christopher Schmitt, Lexington, SC (US); and Xingniu Huo, Medina, OH (US)
Assigned to Hubbell Incorporated, Shelton, CT (US)
Filed by Hubbell Incorporated, Shelton, CT (US)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/871,729.
Application 17/871,729 is a continuation of application No. 16/862,052, filed on Apr. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,411,386.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/990,006, filed on Mar. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/933,649, filed on Nov. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/840,086, filed on Apr. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368123 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H02H 3/20 (2006.01); H02H 3/02 (2006.01); H01T 1/16 (2006.01); H02G 13/00 (2006.01); H02H 3/22 (2006.01)
CPC H02H 3/20 (2013.01) [H02H 3/02 (2013.01); H02H 3/021 (2013.01); H01T 1/16 (2013.01); H02G 13/80 (2013.01); H02H 3/22 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disconnector device comprising:
an isolator connecting a first terminal and a second terminal;
a sleeve positioned around the isolator and including a first end and a second end, the sleeve moveable between an un-extended position prior to the isolator operating and an extended position after the isolator operates, the sleeve being configured to trap debris produced by operation of the isolator; and
a housing having a first portion and a second portion, the housing configured to contain the isolator and the sleeve in the un-extended position and separate during isolator operation,
wherein the first end of the sleeve is coupled to the first portion of the housing and the second end of the sleeve coupled to the second portion of the housing in both the un-extended position and extended position.