US 12,456,593 B2
Contactor with heat transfer device
Dinesh Loku Hemnani, Greensboro, NC (US); Albert Yong Lee, Greensboro, NC (US); Amadeu Luiz Fazani Cavallieri, Sao Paulo (BR); Bruce Toepfer, High Point, NC (US); Nathan Philip Myer, Lancaster, PA (US); Ram Kishore Venkatesan, Middletown, PA (US); and William A. Russell, Jr., Walkertown, NC (US)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, (CH)
Filed by TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH); and TE CONNECTIVITY BRASIL INDUSTRIA DE ELECTRONICOS LTDA, Braganca Paulista (BR)
Filed on Mar. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/688,871.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/158,916, filed on Mar. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0293355 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H01H 9/52 (2006.01); H01H 1/14 (2006.01); H01H 1/62 (2006.01); H01H 9/02 (2006.01); H01H 45/12 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 9/52 (2013.01) [H01H 1/14 (2013.01); H01H 1/62 (2013.01); H01H 9/02 (2013.01); H01H 45/12 (2013.01); H01H 2009/523 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A contactor comprising:
a housing having an outer wall defining a cavity, the housing having a first end and a second end opposite the first end;
a switch assembly received in the cavity, the switch assembly including a first fixed contact received in the cavity and a second fixed contact received in the cavity, the switch assembly including a movable contact movable within the cavity between a mated position and an unmated position, the movable contact engaging the first and second fixed contacts to electrically connect the first and second fixed contacts in the mated position, the switch assembly including a coil assembly in the cavity operated to move the movable contact between the unmated position and the mating position; and
a heat transfer device coupled to the housing, the heat transfer device being thermally coupled to the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact to dissipate heat from the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact.