US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Sept. 9 for "Switch disconnector for manually switching a number of electrical contacts" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,709, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Switch disconnector for manually switching a number of electrical contacts" was invented by Frank Bacher (Schonbrunn, Germany), Frank Hieronymus (Mudau, Germany), Marco Knab (Eberbach, Germany) and Toni Ott (Neckargemund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a switch having a switch housing, a number of module-type individual interrupter chambers which can be arranged in particular side by side in the switch housing and having at least two switching contact elements, and an actuating device which closes off the switch housing a...