US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 6 for "Electromagnetic relay with driveshaft stopper" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,891, issued on May 6, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electromagnetic relay with driveshaft stopper" was invented by Kohei Otsuka (Kyoto, Japan), Ryota Minowa (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroyuki Iwasaka (Kyoto, Japan), Shinichi Ogawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Ayata Horie (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed contact, a movable contact, a movable contact piece, a movable iron core, a drive shaft, a coil, and a stopper. The movable iron core is movable in a moving direction including a contact direction in which the movable contact approaches the fixed contact and a separation direction in wh...