US Patent Issued to Shanghai Electrical Apparatus Research Institute (Group), Shanghai Electrical Apparatus Research Institute on March 17 for "Circuit breaker" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,145, issued on March 17, was assigned to Shanghai Electrical Apparatus Research Institute (Group) Co. Ltd (Shanghai) and Shanghai Electrical Apparatus Research Institute (Shanghai).

"Circuit breaker" was invented by Senlin Zhang (Shanghai), Bingqing Wang (Shanghai), Rongwei Zhou (Shanghai) and Jisheng Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker, comprising a housing, an operation assembly, an arc extinguishing device, and a transmission mechanism. The housing has, in a first direction, a bottom and a top opposite to each other, an accommodation portion recessed from the top to the bottom, and an accommodation cavi...