ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,717, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rincon Power LLC (Carpinteria, Calif.).
"Hermetically sealed manual disconnect with integrated bellows actuator" was invented by Daniel Charles Sullivan (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Justin McAllister (Ventura, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manual disconnect switching device includes an external housing having a handle actuator. The manual disconnect switching device further includes a bellows actuator in communication with the handle actuator and hermetically sealed within an internal volume of the external housing. The bellows actuator includes a shaft and a biased bellows for switchi...