US Patent Issued to OMRON on Oct. 21 for "Electromagnetic relay with re-arcing suppression" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,311, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electromagnetic relay with re-arcing suppression" was invented by Naoki Kawaguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Takeshi Nishida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic relay includes a first fixed terminal, a first fixed contact, a first movable contact, a case, a first inner wall, a first gas passage, and a first magnet. The case includes a first longitudinal inner side surface and a first lateral inner surface. The first lateral inner side surface includes a first central surface and a first arc contact surface. The first arc contact surface is locate...