US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 18 for "Switching device having an actuation unit, on-board electrical system and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,031, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Switching device having an actuation unit, on-board electrical system and motor vehicle" was invented by Florian Pritscher (Landshut, Germany) and Ingo Scherer (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching device for an on-board electrical system of an electrically driven motor vehicle includes an electromechanical switch which is designed to connect and interrupt a supply line of the on-board electrical system. The electromechanical switch has: a stationary first switching contact, a movable second switching contact, and an actu...