US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 11 for "Electric arc-blast nozzle with improved mechanical strength and a circuit breaker including such a nozzle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,137, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Baden, Switzerland).

"Electric arc-blast nozzle with improved mechanical strength and a circuit breaker including such a nozzle" was invented by Ludovic Darles (Rillieux la Pape, France), Jerome Laurent (Saint Denis les bourg, France) and Cyril Gregoire (Lozanne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is an electric arc-blast nozzle for a circuit breaker comprising a median part internally defining an axial electric arc cut-off passage and formed with a first dielectric material, first and second end parts formed with the first dielectric materia...