US Patent Issued to OMRON on Nov. 3 for "Electromagnetic relay" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,002, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electromagnetic relay" was invented by Naoki Kawaguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Takeshi Nishida (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryota Minowa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic relay includes a first fixed terminal, a first fixed contact, a second fixed terminal, a second fixed contact, a first movable contact, a second movable contact, a movable contact piece, a drive device, an outer magnet, and an inner magnet. The second fixed terminal is disposed apart from the first fixed terminal in a first direction. The first movable contact and the second movable conta...