US Patent Issued to GE INFRASCRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLG on May 6 for "Circuit breaker comprising an improved linkage mechanism" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,887, issued on May 6, was assigned to GE INFRASCRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLG (Greenville, S.C.).

"Circuit breaker comprising an improved linkage mechanism" was invented by David Berard (Villeurbanne, France), Quentin Dominique Louis Rognard (Villeurbanne, France), Jerome Laurent (Villeurbanne, France) and Serge Bachelard (Villeurbanne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application concerns a circuit breaker including a movable contact, a driving rod slidably mounted in the circuit breaker, a linkage mechanism for driving the movable contact, a pivoted driving fork rotatably mounted in the circuit breaker which cooperates wi...