US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Aug. 12 for "Contact apparatus and electromagnetic relay" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,897, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Contact apparatus and electromagnetic relay" was invented by Yosuke Shimizu (Hokkaido, Japan), Yuki Imaizumi (Hokkaido, Japan), Tadahiro Yoshiura (Hokkaido, Japan) and Masahiro Ito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This contact apparatus includes: a fixed contact; a movable contactor including a movable contact facing the fixed contact; a magnetic shield configured to move in conjunction with the movable contactor and including a first shield portion, a second shield portion, and a joining portion joining the first sh...