US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on July 28 for "Multi-contact miniature circuit breaker with reduced arcing" (Czech, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,036, issued on July 28, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Multi-contact miniature circuit breaker with reduced arcing" was invented by Michael Thomas Martin (Mars, Pa.) and Venkat raman Thenkarai Narayanan (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker includes two sets of separable contacts in series per pole, primary contacts and secondary contacts, reducing overall let-through energy and peak pressures within the arcing chambers of the breaker during arc interruption. Opening both sets of contacts produces two arcs in series per pole, and the two series arcs increase the line to load resistance of t...