US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on June 16 for "Application of chambered oil fuse" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,396, issued on June 16, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Application of chambered oil fuse" was invented by Robert Stephen Douglass (Wildwood, Mo.) and Gautam Sharma (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a fuse assembly comprises a fuse element, an inner chamber comprising arc-quenching liquid, and an outer chamber housing the inner chamber. At least a portion of the fuse element is housed inside the inner chamber. The inner chamber is configured to rupture during an arc event. The outer chamber comprises filler material."

The patent was filed on May 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/3...