US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 8 for "Switch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,738, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Switch" was invented by Keita Shimabayashi (Tokyo), Shinichiro Nakauchi (Tokyo) and Masato Kubota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch includes: a circuit breaker; a disconnector; a grounding switch; and a manipulator that drives the disconnector and the grounding switch. The manipulator includes: a motor; a plurality of drive pulleys installed on an output shaft of the motor; and a controller for controlling rotation of the motor. Each of the disconnector and the grounding switch includes a switching manipulator that performs a switching action acc...