US Patent Issued to HITACHI ENERGY on Sept. 9 for "Contact assembly" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,713, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich).

"Contact assembly" was invented by Jean Louis Gerard Mathae (Ludvika, Sweden) and Per Algot Sundqvist (Smedjebacken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact assembly including a first contact member electrically connected to a first electrical terminal, a second contact member electrically connected to a second electrical terminal, and a third contact member movable into and out of contact with the second contact member. An elastically deformable fourth contact member ensures electrical contact between the first contact member and the second contact member ...