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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 2/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 2/900 ;
Abstract
An electrical contact breaker switch has a cavity or space that forms first and second chambers and a plurality of channels. The switch also has at least two solid electrodes formed with electrode components exposed apart from each other within the cavity. A conductive fluid held within the cavity functions as a contact for putting the electrode components of two specific solid electrodes in a “closed” state when in contiguous form and in an “open” state when in non-contiguous form. A form modification unit, which includes the first and second chambers, modifies the form of the conductive fluid.