US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Oct. 20 for "Switchable contacting device with cooling functionality" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,803, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER (Dublin).

"Switchable contacting device with cooling functionality" was invented by Volker Lang (Bonn, Germany), Lutz Friedrichsen (Niederkassel, Germany), Kai Schroeder (Langerwehe, Germany), Gabriel Wiedera (Bonn, Germany) and Alexej Pogorelov (Erkelenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switchable contacting device with cooling functionality includes a current-carrying component, a housing for encasing the current-carrying component, and a heat dissipating component. The heat dissipating component is arranged to dissipate heat from the current-carrying componen...