US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Sept. 15 for "Switch device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,432, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Switch device" was invented by Yoshimasa Kuroda (Miyagi, Japan) and Katsutoshi Usui (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch device includes a housing that includes a central fixed contact and a first peripheral fixed contact that are at a central portion of a bottom surface of a recessed portion of the housing, and a second peripheral fixed contact that is at a peripheral portion of the bottom surface of the recessed portion; a first movable contact that is disposed on an upper side of the central portion of the bottom surface of the recessed port...