ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,820, issued on July 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and DENSO ELECTRONICS Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Electromagnetic relay device" was invented by Masahiro Tanimoto (Kariya, Japan), Mitsugu Fujiwara (Kariya, Japan), Hiroshi Nagura (Kariya, Japan) and Makoto Kamiya (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electromagnetic relay device, a mover includes a movable contact movable to abut onto and separate from a stationary contact through a contact region defined between the movable and the stationary contacts. A plunger causes the mover to reciprocate to accordingly cause the movable contact to abut onto or separate fr...