US Patent Issued to PHOENIX CONTACT on Sept. 23 for "Technique for preventing arcing when disconnecting a DC connection by using an extension of a line compound" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,802, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Technique for preventing arcing when disconnecting a DC connection by using an extension of a line compound" was invented by Marc Klimpel (Lage, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug-in contact device for preventing or extinguishing an arc when a DC connection is disconnected or closed by using an extension of a line compound includes: at least two connectors at ends of an extension of a line compound, each having a main contact (HA) and an auxiliary contact (HI), the HA of each of the at least two connectors having a first contact h...