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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2021
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a contact device including a first contact, a second contact that is movable relative to the first contact and is brought into contact with or separated from the first contact, a first body part including the first contact, a second body part including the second contact, and a yoke arranged adjacent to at least one of the first body part or the second body part. At least a part of the yoke is arranged along magnetic flux generated by a current flowing through one body part of the first body part and the second body part that is adjacent to the yoke, in a region where the first body part and the second body part overlap each other when viewed along an axis in which the first contact and the second contact move relative to each other while the first contact and the second contact are in contact with each other.