US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 5 for "Contact device and electromagnetic relay" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,540, issued on May 5, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Contact device and electromagnetic relay" was invented by Tsukasa Nishimura (Hokkaido, Japan), Yosuke Shimizu (Hokkaido, Japan), Hironori Hounoki (Mie, Japan), Kohei Fudo (Osaka, Japan) and Taeho Jang (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This contact device includes: a first fixed terminal; a movable contactor configured to contact the first fixed terminal and separate from the first fixed terminal; a spring disposed below the movable contactor and formed of a metal; a holder including a bottom and disposed to position ...