LOW VOLTAGE APPARATUS ›› 2025, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (7): 1-8.doi: 10.16628/j.cnki.2095-8188.2025.07.001

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Optimization Design for Quality Consistency of Balanced Armature Relay Contact System Based on Digital Model

CHEN Dongxu, LI Jianping, XU Le   

  1. Institute of Reliability in Electrical Apparatus and Electronics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • Received:2025-04-11 Online:2025-07-30 Published:2025-08-27

Abstract:

The main failure mode of balanced armature relays during operation is contact ablation in the contact system, which is caused by large dispersion in the pull-in speed during the relay’s pull-in process. Excessively high pull-in speed can lead to contact bounce, while excessively low pull-in speed can result in poor pull-in. Taking a certain type of product as the research object, a method for consistent parameter design and tolerance design based on digital models is proposed. By establishing an electromagnetic-mechanical co-simulation model of the entire machine, the influence laws of key parameters such as contact gap and initial pressure on the pull-in speed are analyzed. After optimization, the average pull-in speed is reduced to 0.3224 m/s, and the standard deviation is decreased by 17.9%. Through tolerance design, the standard deviation is further reduced by 34.3%. The tests show that the proposed method can effectively suppress contact bounce and arcing phenomena, and improve the product quality consistency.

Key words: balanced armature, contact system, digital model, quality consistency

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