US Patent Issued to OMRON on June 30 for "Electromagnetic relay with a movable piece including contact portions" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,048, issued on June 30, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electromagnetic relay with a movable piece including contact portions" was invented by Ayata Horie (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroyuki Iwasaka (Kyoto, Japan), Ryota Minowa (Kyoto, Japan), Shinichi Ogawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Kohei Otsuka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic relay includes a drive shaft, a drive device, a movable piece, a first fixed terminal, and a second fixed terminal. The drive shaft is movable in a moving direction. The drive shaft extends in the moving direction. The drive device moves the drive shaft in the moving direction. The m...