US Patent Issued to LS ELECTRIC on Sept. 16 for "Arc path formation unit and direct current relay including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,888, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LS ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Arc path formation unit and direct current relay including same" was invented by Jung Woo Yoo (Anyang-si, South Korea), Han Mi Ru Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Young Ho Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arc path formation unit and a direct current relay including same are disclosed. The arc path formation unit according to various embodiments of the present disclosure comprises a Halbach array and a magnet unit, which form a magnetic field in a space part in which fixed contacts are accommodated. The formed magneti...