US Patent Issued to LS ELECTRIC on May 27 for "Arc extinguishing assembly" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,688, issued on May 27, was assigned to LS ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Arc extinguishing assembly" was invented by Yong Ik Park (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an arc extinguishing assembly which, when an arc is generated, has a structure that can push the generated arc in a direction farther away from a stationary contact point by forming a transient pressure difference between arc guides."

The patent was filed on Feb. 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/909,639.

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