ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,307, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG (Klingenberg, Germany).
"Pressure-actuated switch for compressors" was invented by Ashish Kumar (Ambala, India) and Umang Gupta (Ghaziabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure-actuated switch having a pressure port, a diaphragm, a range spring, an actuator plate, a differential plate, and an electrical switch. A certain pressure level moves the diaphragm against the range spring at the pressure port and thus deflects the actuator plate. The actuator plate is coupled to the electrical switch via a snap spring, wherein the electrical switch can be ...