US Patent Issued to LS ELECTRIC on May 26 for "Vacuum circuit breaker" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,321, issued on May 26, was assigned to LS ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Vacuum circuit breaker" was invented by Minkyu Seo (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a vacuum circuit breaker capable of measuring and monitoring the temperature of a specific point, the vacuum circuit breaker comprising a temperature detection sensor located adjacent to an electric conduction pole. The temperature detection sensor includes: a sensor body located adjacent to one side of a plate part of the electric conduction pole; a fixing terminal which can be brought into contact with a specific point of the elec...