US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric USA on Jan. 20 for "Low impact auxiliary switch mechanically operated contacts (MOC) mechanism" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,195, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"Low impact auxiliary switch mechanically operated contacts (MOC) mechanism" was invented by Matthew Alan Williford (Nashville, Tenn.), Sergio Flores (Smyrna, Tenn.), Naveen Kumar Budnar Venkatesh (Bangalore, India), David Price (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Manuel Guillermo Cader Valencia (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crank arm of an auxiliary rotary switch in a circuit breaker changes electrical connections of contacts in the auxiliary rotary switch when the crank-arm is rotated about its axis. An auxiliary switch actuator decouples abrup...