US Patent Issued to OMRON on Feb. 18 for "Electromagnetic relay with short circuit preventing features" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,463, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electromagnetic relay with short circuit preventing features" was invented by Takashi Tsukada (Kyoto, Japan), Takeshi Nishida (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuki Furukawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Naoki Kawaguchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic relay includes a support member, a first fixed terminal, a second fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a movable member. The support member is made of an insulating material. The first fixed terminal includes a first fixed contact and is supported by the support member. The second fixed terminal includes the s...