The present invention concerns a high-tension current transformer, with storage production, by means of auto¬ matization of its insulation which, independently from the variable features of the specific request, solves 0 the two following problems that at present have not yet been solved by the prior art:

1) the automatization of the insulation of the high-ten¬ sion current transformers;

2) the possibility of producing, for the storage, the 5 insulation of the high-tension current transformers, changing the actual productive cycles that impose to prepare the insulation of the current transformers time by time and by request, on the base of the va¬ riable features of the specific request. 0

The aim of the present invention is to solve the follow¬ ing two main difficulties AB that are usually met in the realization of transformers for high and very high ten¬ sion current: f- A) Except for cases of primary high currents, the prima¬ ry as well as the secondary windings of the high-ten¬ sion current transformers are always of the kind wound according to the need of reaching the Ampere- coils so as to obtain, with not overdi ensioned

cores' sections, the efficiency and the precision classes requested for measuring.

With the primary or secondary winding wound on the core, the difficulty of the insulation thereof is met in the meeting point between the insulation of the winding part, wound on the core, with the outlet insu¬ lation, i.e. in the insulation of what is currently called the neck of the insulation parcel. Due to this difficulty, the insulation of the parcel's insulation neck requests the intervention of specia¬ lized handicraft with consequent time and efficiency losses, while it is possible to automatize, by means of special ribbon-applying machines, the insulation of the part of the wound winding and the insulation of the stright outlet part. This means, that the automa¬ tization of the insulation is only apparent.

The enclosed figure 1 shows a vertical section of two different placements of the transformers, with the core respectively provided in the lower and in -the upper part.

On the left side of the figure the disposition is shown with the primary wound winding in A.T. on which the insulation is transferred, while the core with the secondary winding in B.T. is provided in the lower part of the transformer.

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The meaning of the symbols is the following: c = neck of the insulation parcel i = insulation A.T. = high tension B.T. = low tension

On the right side of the figure the disposition is shown wherein the insulation is provided above the core and the secondary wound winding in B.T., as the two are provided in the upper part of the transfor¬ mer with the same symbols as above.

It shall be noted that with above mentioned two di¬ spositions the insulation is performed for the whole nominal tension of the current transformer.

The many variables provided in the realization of current t ansformers:

- nominal primary and simple currents, double, triple transformation relationship;

- nominal secondary currents of 5 Amp and also 1 Amp,

- number of the secondary cores from 1 to 3 for the different measuring and protection requirements;

- efficiency and precision class of the secondary co- res force the producer to provide each time the whole production cycle of which the insulation is the most important part, on request, on the basis of the specific requirements of the specific

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client, and do not allow a production provided on the basis of storage production. In consideration of this all, it should be underlined that: - the most important problem in the realization of the current transformers consists in the performing of the insulation between the primary winding in A.T. and the secondary winding in B.T., - a project based on the maximum saving in the cost of materials is not always convenient, in consideration of the different technical and commercial purposes of an industry with respect to a project based on a higher cost of the materials but that allows the ma¬ ximum automatization and the possibility of perform- ing a storage production - instead than an order production - with an evident increase in efficiency.

The present invention completely solves the problems de¬ scribed at points A and B.

Figure 2 shows a vertical section and two horizontal sections of the transformer according to the present in¬ vention.

Figure 3 shows a vertical section, an external view of the upper side and a horizontal section in the case of primary high currents.

Relating now to the details of the figures, they show:

- a cap 1 for the oil-filling

- a cover 2

- a breather 3 - an elastic membrane 4

- a primary clamp 5

- an insulating support section 6

- a primary core 7

- an aluminium melting 8 carrying the primary current - an aluminium rope 9 for high primary currents

- a support ring 10 out of insulating material

- a metal ring 11

- a porcelain 12

- an insulating tissue 13 - an end clamp 14 with a 902-plate connection

- a flexible blade 15 connection

- a coupling room 16

- a copper tube 17

- an insulated diffusor ring 18 - a secondary core 19

- a centering insulating section 20

- a series of clamps 21 for the secondary windings

- a primary winding 22

- a secondary winding 23.

The realization problems, deriving from the many varia¬ bles mentioned in B) are to be separated from the main insulating problem mentioned in A;, that is completely

transferred and solved on a winding that connects in the shape of a ring the following cores:

- the first tension core provided in the upper part of the current transformer, onto which the primary wind- ing of A.T. is directly wound;

- the group of secondary cores provided in the lower part of the current transformer onto which the secon¬ dary B.T. windings are directly wound;

- for eliminating the neck of the insulating parcel and the following insulating thereof, the connection wind¬ ing is provided for high current intensity so as to allow, with one single coil, to thermically bring the determined ampere-values from the maximum ampere-coils available to the primary winding.

Once the neck of the insulating parcel has been elimina¬ ted, the insulation of the connection winding may be performed in continuity by automatic ribbon-applying ma¬ chines .

The already existing copper tubes having a diameter of 50 mm to 60 mm and with maximum currents of 1,600 to 2,000 Amp, should satisfy all electric conduction requests and supply the most valid support for the automatic ribbon application, from the electric point of view (minimum e- lectric gradients in the paper due to the absence of ed¬ ges and wedges), as well as from the mechanical point of view (the ribbon application takes place with a constant tension in the winding paper). .../...

The insulation of the connection winding is provided for half the nominal tension of the current transformer. Therefore, it is easy to understand that by bringing four insulation units on standard levels and storing them, for a nominal tension of 75 kV, 110 kV, 190 kV and 400 kV, and providing the coupling of two equal units, placed one towards the other, current transformers for nominal tensions of 150 kV, 220 kV, 380 kV and 800 kV or other normalized tensions may be quickly prepared.

The completing of the realization of the active part of saud transformers is now reduced to the placing, before the coupling of the insulation units, in following suc¬ cession: - the upper core 7 with the primary winding directly wound and the lower cores 19 with the relative secon¬ dary windings directly wound; - the diffosor rings 18 fixed at the ends of the metal nets wound above the insulation, so as to limit the e- lectric field of the insulation units: the force, lines of the electric fields end on above mentioned nets that therefore get identified with the two extreme re¬ inforcements of the series of two equal condensers.

For the correct coupling of the two units, the ends of the tubes should be provided with end clamps with a 902- plate connection, and it should be requested to unite the plates of the lower tubes with the plates of the up-

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per tubes with flexible blade connections (see section A-A of figure B) .

The present invention has the following features: > - the transformer is of the sealed kind and completely filled up with oil. The volume variations of the oil due to the thermic excursions are balanced by an ela- stic membrane of known kind having one surface at con¬ tact with the oil and the other one at contact with It) the air. Thus the forming of condensing inside the transformer may be prevented.

- Both the upper and the lower cores are of the toroidal wound kind and, due to the lack of air gaps, the mag¬ netic reluctance and the magnetizing current - that is

1:• the main componente in the determination of the measu¬ ring errors of the transformer - are reduced to the the minumum.

- The excellent magnetic binding of the windings makes the dispersion flows minimum, and practically brings

20 to nul the dispersion reactance.

- The primary winding, directly wound on the core in the upper part of the transformer, has a length less than the one in other realizations and therefore, as a

• principle, it behaves better than the primary winding 25 of other realizations towards the short circuit cur¬ rents. Furthermore, the saturation of the upper core reduces the short circuit currents on the connection ring within well bearable limits under the thermic and dynairic aspect. .../...

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- The equality of the two condensers put in series assu¬ res an equal division of the tension between the two insulation units.

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