US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Oct. 7 for "Vacuum interrupter with slow opening solenoid core inside to shorten the length of the conductor assembly" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,949, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Vacuum interrupter with slow opening solenoid core inside to shorten the length of the conductor assembly" was invented by Jayaraman Muniyappan (Pernambut, India), Robert Michael Slepian (Murrysville, Pa.), Santhosh Kumar Chamarajanagar Govinda Nayaka (Moon Township, Pa.) and Ganesh Kumar Balasubramanian (Horseheads, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum circuit interrupter integrates a solenoid core within the vacuum chamber for opening the separable contacts under non-fault conditions, using less space than if the solenoid were disposed in series w...