ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,935, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Compressed gas switch" was invented by Lutz-Rudiger Janicke (Mahlow, Germany) and Jens Schimmelpfennig (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch, includes electrical contacts separated by a contact gap, a tubular guide disposed around at least one of the electrical contacts axially movable between an open position retracted from the contact gap and a closed position bridging the contact gap, a blast cylinder disposed radially outward of the tubular guide and defining a compression volume therebetween, the blast cylinder axially movable in coord...