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US 4,066,859 AGranted
Mercury wettable contact assembly
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorAnthony Steinmetz
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Abstract
A switching device comprising a movable blade wetted with a liquid metal, and a stationary blade having a surfacelayer of a non-metallic material which is not wetted by the liquid metal.
Claims9
A switching device which comprises a moveable contact blade formed of a magnetizable metal and having a contact surface wetted with a liquid metal, and a stationary contact blade formed of a magnetisable metal and having on its contact surface a layer consisting of a non-metallic material that is not wetted by the liquid metal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.