US Patent Issued to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS on Aug. 4 for "Electromechanical relay and monitoring switch for an electromechanical relay" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,556, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electromechanical relay and monitoring switch for an electromechanical relay" was invented by Katrin Schertler (Berlin), Thomas Haehnel (Berlin) and Matthias Kroeker (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical relay includes a relay housing enclosing a contact chamber of the relay and a contact arrangement arranged in the contact chamber. The contact arrangement has a movable armature and a coil for moving the armature, a shaft connected to the armature, and a contact bridge arranged on the shaft for contacting stationar...