ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,538, issued on May 5, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Switch" was invented by Katsuki Hotta (Tokyo), Shinya Watanabe (Tokyo) and Katsuhiko Horinouchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch includes: a fixed contact including a fixed contact point; a movable contact including a movable contact point; a magnetic field generating member including a first magnetic pole surface and a second magnetic pole surface; a main yoke including a first connection portion that is connected to the second magnetic pole surface, extends in a third direction from the second magnetic pole surface, and projects to one side and an...