US Patent Issued to PHOENIX CONTACT on April 7 for "Energy supply device with safety-related shut-down facility and method of switching off the device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,862, issued on April 7, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Energy supply device with safety-related shut-down facility and method of switching off the device" was invented by Jochen Zeuch (Blomberg, Germany), Hartmut Henkel (Blomberg, Germany) and Patrick Schweer (Hameln, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy supply device includes: a transformer with a first winding; a power switching device; a feedback device; and a voltage supply device for providing supply voltage for the feedback device. The power switching device is coupled to the first winding and connects through periodically by a c...