A relay includes a pair of fixed terminals arranged to respectively have fixed contacts, a movable contact member arranged to have a pair of movable contacts, a driving structure operated to move the movable contact member and a magnet arranged to extinguish an arc. The movable contact member has a center section located between the pair of movable contacts. The magnet is placed on at least one of a first side and a second side that face each other across a predetermined face including the movable contact member and the pair of fixed terminals electrically connected by the movable contact member. The magnet is arranged to have a magnitude relation that a center area where the center section is located has a lower magnetic flux density than movable contact portions where the pair of movable contacts are located.

Disclosed is a relay. The relay includes a first fixed contact 110, a second fixed contact 120, a movable contact 130, and a first magnet 140 and a second magnet 150. The first contact part C1 is disposed at a position which is closer to a distance to the second magnet than a distance to the first magnet, and the second contact part C2 is disposed at a position which is closer to the distance to the first magnet than the distance to the second magnet. Accordingly, arcs are prevented from gathering at one position, and a contacting force between the movable contact and the fixed contacts is prevented from being reduced.

A relay includes: a pair of fixed terminals, each being arranged to have a fixed contact on a one-end face; a movable contact member arranged to have a pair of movable contacts that are correspondingly opposed to the respective fixed contacts; and a driving structure operated to move the movable contact member. In a moving direction of the movable contact member, a side where the fixed contacts are located is called a first side, and a side where the movable contacts are located is called a second side. The movable contact member includes: a center section located between the pair of movable contacts and located on the second side relative to the movable contacts; and a pair of extended sections located between the center section and the pair of movable contacts and extended in a direction including a component of the moving direction. At least one of the pair of extended sections has a specific relationship of being overlapped at least partly with the one-end face located on same side relative to the center section in vertical projection of the relay onto a predetermined plane perpendicular to the moving direction.

A relay includes: a plurality of fixed terminals arranged to have fixed contacts; and a movable contact member arranged to have a plurality of movable contacts that are correspondingly opposed to the respective fixed contacts. The relay further includes: a driving structure operated to move the movable contact member such that the respective movable contacts come into contact with the corresponding fixed contacts; a plurality of first vessels provided corresponding to the respective fixed terminals and arranged to have insulating property; a second vessel joined with the plurality of first vessels; and an air-tight space formed by the plurality of fixed terminals, the plurality of first vessels and the second vessel to allow the movable contact member and the respective fixed contacts to be placed therein.