ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,061, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Attleboro, Mass.).
"Failure mode detection in a contactor" was invented by Siebe Berveling (Deventer, Netherlands), Paul Gennissen (Markelo, Netherlands), Murray McTigue (Carpinteria, Calif.) and Gregory Lyons (Victoria, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for failure mode detection in a contactor are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method for failure mode detection in a contactor includes maintaining the contactor command signal in the open state; connecting the contactor to a voltage supply that supplies a first predetermined volta...