US Patent Issued to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 29 for "SF6 free gas insulated disconnector with limited arcing volume" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,638, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"SF6 free gas insulated disconnector with limited arcing volume" was invented by Felix Bernard (Aix-les-Bains, France), Olivier Guyon (Aix-les-Bains, France) and Matthias Montbel (Aix-les-Bains, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disconnector for a GIS, including a pair of permanent contacts, one fixed and the other one movable along an axis, called the axis of the disconnector, a pair of arcing contacts, one fixed and the other one movable, an insulating part located inside the fixed arcing contact, means for pressing the insu...