US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric (China) on Sept. 9 for "Sequential action device and solid-state starter and solid-state circuit breaker including thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,460, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schneider Electric (China) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Sequential action device and solid-state starter and solid-state circuit breaker including thereof" was invented by Xiaoqiang Li (Shanghai), Qing Yang (Shanghai), Ying Shi (Shanghai), Shunxian Mao (Shanghai) and Junqi Xiang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an electromechanical sequential action device that is capable of sequentially interlocking a mechanical switch and a power electronic switch, where through an action sequence control, the electromechanical mechanism turns on the power electronic switch ...