US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on June 17 for "Apparatus for monitoring a power capacitor and adapter for such an apparatus" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,145, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Apparatus for monitoring a power capacitor and adapter for such an apparatus" was invented by Markus Ackermann (Forchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for monitoring a power capacitor having a housing with a housing interior to be gas-tightly closed off at a housing opening, includes a sensor device outputting a signal as a function of a gas pressure in the housing. An adapter mechanically connects the sensor device to the housing at the housing opening and fluidically connects it to the housing interior. The adapter has a cylindrical ada...