US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 23 for "Actuation unit for a switching apparatus" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,141, issued on June 23, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Actuation unit for a switching apparatus" was invented by Corrado Rizzi (Fornovo San Giovanni, Italy), Alessandro Stucchi (Dalmine, Italy), Ettore Pellegrinelli (Ponteranica, Italy) and Dario Leidi (Ubiale Clanezzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation unit for a switching apparatus is provided. The actuation unit includes a rotating contact shaft coupled to the movable contacts of the switching apparatus and first mechanical actuation means coupled to the contact shaft and configured to actuate the contact shaft during a closing maneuver of th...