US Patent Issued to Pilz on Sept. 30 for "Relay apparatus and safety switching device with relay apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,308, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Pilz GmbH & Co. KG (Ostfildern, Germany).

"Relay apparatus and safety switching device with relay apparatus" was invented by Jochen Bauknecht (Ostfildern, Germany) and Florian Rotzinger (Ostfildern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay apparatus comprises input ports, output ports, and first and second relays. The first relay comprises: a first contact group comprising nless than=2 first contacts arranged in parallel and moveable between open and closed positions by a first common armature; and a second contact group comprising n second contacts arranged in parallel and movable betw...