US Patent Issued to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) on Aug. 11 for "Elastic member and relay" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,265, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Elastic member and relay" was invented by Jun (Tod) Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Shixiong (Stephen) Cao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic member adapted to apply a contact pressure to a movable terminal of a relay includes a fixed part and a pair of elastic arms. The fixed part is adapted to be fixed to a movable seat of the relay. The pair of elastic arms are connected to respective sides of the fixed part and extend obliquely therefrom. End parts of the pair of elastic arms are adapted to abut against two ends of the mov...