US Patent Issued to Hitachi Energy on July 28 for "Surge arrester module and surge arrester" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,008, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Surge arrester module and surge arrester" was invented by Yun Zhang (Xiamen, China), HuaJun Kang (Beijing) and LeJun Qi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a surge arrester module and a surge arrester including the surge arrester module. The surge arrester module includes a varistor stack, a pair of electrodes and a coupling assembly for coupling the pair of electrodes. The varistor stack includes multiple varistor blocks stacked along a longitudinal direction of the surge arrester module and is sandwiched the pair o...