H01H 51/06
Armature is movable between two limit positions of rest and is moved
Official title: Armature is movable between two limit positions of rest and is moved in one direction due to energisation of an electromagnet and after the electromagnet is de-energised is returned by energy stored during the movement in the first direction, e.g. by using a spring, by using a permanent magnet, by gravity
H01H51/06 (Armature is movable between two limit positions of rest and is moved) appears on 480 US grants and 364 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01H- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2026 | 2 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Relay1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302116 A1Sensata Technologies (Wuhu) Co., Ltd.
- Electromagnetic relay and detection system23 Apr 2026US 2026/0112558 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Magnetic momentum transfer generator9 Apr 2026US 2026/0100321 A1Wepower Technologies LLC
- Relay12 Feb 2026US 2026/0045432 A1Xiamen Hongfa Electric Power Controls Co., Ltd.
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- Contact device56US 7,859,373 B2Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. · 2010
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