US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 3 for "Control unit for an electrical circuit breaker and associated electrical circuit breaker" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,443, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Control unit for an electrical circuit breaker and associated electrical circuit breaker" was invented by Thomas Bianchi (Grenoble, France) and Patrick Prieur (Claix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This control unit (20) comprises a casing (30) defining a front plane (P22) where a housing (401), configured to receive a communication module (400) in an assembled position, opens. Contact pads (36) are arranged at the bottom of the housing recessed from the front plane (P22), so that a clearance distance between each contact pad an...