Patent ID: 8514040

Claim:
An electromagnetic relay assembly for selectively enabling current to pass through switch termini, the electromagnetic relay assembly comprising: a rotatable coil assembly, the rotatable coil assembly comprising a current-conductive coil, a coil core, and a coil housing, the coil housing for enclosing the coil and the core, the coil being wound around the core, the core being collinear with a coil axis, the coil comprising electromagnet-driving termini, the core comprising opposed core termini, the coil housing having an housing axis of rotation orthogonal to the coil axis, the entire coil housing being rotatable about the housing axis of rotation such that the coil housing, and the coil and the core enclosed within the coil housing all rotate when the coil housing rotates about the housing axis of rotation, the coil axis thereby being rotatively displaceable intermediate X-shaped planar boundaries; first and second magnet pairs of opposed permanent magnets, the magnet pairs being respectively and fixedly positioned adjacent the core termini such that the core termini are respectively displaceable intermediate the magnet pairs; and a switch assembly, the switch assembly comprising first and second linkage arms, and first and second contact-spring assemblies, the linkage arms interconnecting the core termini and contact-spring assemblies, the contact-spring assemblies comprising opposed pairs of contacts, first and second spring arms, and first and second switch terminals, the coil for creating a magnetic field, the magnetic field being directable through the core for imparting coil housing rotation about the housing axis of rotation via directed attraction to select magnets of the magnet pairs, the core termini for displacing linkage arms, the linkage arms actuating the contact-spring assemblies intermediate an open position and a closed position, the closed position for enabling current to pass through the switch assembly via the contacts and the switch terminals.