US Patent Issued to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY on June 9 for "Circuit breaker comprising an improved gas flow management" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,716, issued on June 9, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Circuit breaker comprising an improved gas flow management" was invented by Cyril Gregoire (Villerbanne, France), Quentin Rognard (Villerbanne, France) and Cedric Delhomme (Villerbanne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-voltage circuit breaker filled with gas, including two arcing contacts, a support in which a thermal volume, a compression volume, and an exhaust gas chamber are formed. A first radial wall separating the thermal volume and the compression volume, which is movable within the support. A second radial wall sepa...