The invention relates to a contact and an arc extinguishing
system for a universal type low-
voltage circuit breaker. The contact and the arc extinguishing
system for the universal type low-
voltage circuit breaker comprise a moving contact, a stationary contact, a stationary contact arc striking board, a moving contact arc striking board, an arc extinguishing grille sheet set composed of a plurality of grille sheets and a contact arc extinguishing
system composed by an air outlet channel and an air outlet at the upper end of the arc extinguishing grille sheet set, wherein, the moving contact, the stationary contact, the stationary contact arc striking board, the moving contact arc striking board and the arc extinguishing grille sheet set are fixed on a moving conducting rod. A middle grille sheet in the arc extinguishing grille sheet set extends to the direction of the contacts and protrudes forwards. Due to the fact that the middle grille sheet in the arc extinguishing grille sheet set extends to the direction of a contact area, an
electric arc contacts the extended grille sheet in advance in the process of moving to an arc extinguishing chamber, and under guidance of the grille sheet, the
electric arc enters into other grille sheets in the rear portion smoothly. According to the structure, due to the fact that only one grille sheet is extended, a contact area
magnetic field is slightly influenced, and short time tolerant property of the
circuit breaker is not influenced. Due to the fact that the extended grille sheet can divide an air
stream entering into the arc extinguishing chamber into two streams, namely, a front
stream and a rear
stream, in the process of breaking, drive action of the air flow to the
electric arc is improved, the electric arc is pushed to enter into the arc extinguishing chamber of grille sheets and opening and breaking performance of the circuit breaker is improved.