Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Anden Co., Ltd.

Atsuo Okabayashi

Hisanaga Matsuoka

Makoto Kamiya

Kiyonari Kojima

Hitoshi Sunohara

Manabu Ozaki

Wataru Hirose

An electromagnetic relay switches to conduct and interrupt currents having different magnitudes and flowing though mutually opposite paths via the electromagnetic relay. The relay includes a coil generating a magnetic force and a pair of contact sections opened and closed selectively by the magnetic force. The contact sections comprise a pair of fixed contacts and a pair of movable contacts. Each fixed contacts is held by a pair of conductive fixed holders and is near a tip section of each fixed holder. The movable contacts are fixed to a conductive movable holder and moves toward and away from the fixed holders selectively in response to the magnetic force. The relay further includes two arc-extinguishing magnet members adjacent to the contact sections such that, the arc generated by interrupting one current having a magnitude larger than the other current is extended toward the tip section at each contact section.

Electromagnetic relay

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Toyota, Japan

Atsuo Okabayashi