US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 28 for "Vacuum circuit breaker" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,037, issued on July 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vacuum circuit breaker" was invented by Motohiro Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum circuit breaker includes: a plurality of vacuum valves each of which includes: a cylindrical vacuum container; a fixed electrode fixed inside the vacuum container; a movable conductor that protrudes from the inside of the vacuum container to the outside of the vacuum container and is movable in a direction of a center axis of the vacuum container; and a movable electrode that moves together with the movable conductor inside the vacuum container to be capable o...