US Patent Issued to BYD on Sept. 9 for "Relay with arc extinguishing devices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,717, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Relay with arc extinguishing devices" was invented by Baotong Yao (Shenzhen, China), Lujian Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Siyuan Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay includes a housing, a contact assembly and an auxiliary contact assembly. The contact assembly includes the movable contacts adapted to move towards or away from the stationary contacts under the driving of the movable contact bridge. The auxiliary contact assembly includes an auxiliary contact bridge and auxiliary contacts. At least portion of each of the auxiliary contacts ext...