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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965168 | Fuse device with integrated switch A fuse is provided that includes a housing and a first lead and a second lead. The fuse further includes a fuse element having a current capacity. The fuse element forms a part of an electrical pathway between the first lead and the second lead. The fuse also includ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7639112 | Fuse device with integrated switch A fuse is provided that includes a housing and a first lead and a second lead. The fuse further includes a fuse element having a current capacity. The fuse element forms a part of an electrical pathway between the first lead and the second lead. The fuse also includ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7626483 | Self-recovering current limiting fuse using dielectrophoretic force A self-recovering current limiting fuse protecting a secondary battery having a high rated voltage thanks to its improved breakdown voltage, expanding the application range, shortening the charging time, and realizing maintenance-free. The self-recovering current li... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7583176 | Switch apparatus A circuit including: at least one conductor; a least one vanadium oxide region electrically coupled to the at least one conductor; and, at least one thermionic cooler thermally coupled to the vanadium oxide region; wherein, the thermionic cooler is suitable for tran... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7532101 | Temperature protection device A temperature protection device is provided, which comprises with a polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PTC) device 1 having a conductive polymer 5 placed between two electrodes 6 and 7, and a metal member 2 bonded to one o... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7414513 | Organic component for overvoltage protection and associated circuit The invention concerns a component of predominantly organic material which affords overvoltage protection for electronic circuits, and a circuit by which a multiple of the threshold voltage of an individual component can be implemented. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7269392 | Electric component for communication device and semiconductor device for switching transmission and reception There are provided a transmission/reception switching circuit which is small in insertion loss and harmonic distortion and allows an increase in the output power of a power amplifier and an electronic component for communication on which the transmission/reception s... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7205878 | Over-current protection device and manufacturing method thereof An over-current protection device comprises at least one PTC component, at least one thermal dissipation layer, at least one adhesive layer and at least two isolation layers, wherein the PTC component is formed by interposing a PTC material between two electrode lay... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205672 | Flip chip mounted to thermal sensing element through the back side of the chip A method for providing cooled flip chip is provided. Solder paste is placed on a back side of a flip chip. A heat sink is placed against the solder paste. The solder paste is reflowed. In addition, an apparatus is provided. Generally, a zener diode flip chip with an... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7145408 | Resonant clock distribution for very large scale integrated circuits A circuit for distributing a clock signal in an integrated circuit includes a capacitive clock distribution circuit. At least one additional inductor is formed in a metal layer of the integrated circuit and is coupled to the clock distribution circuit. The inductor,... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7026583 | Surface mountable PTC device A surface mountable PTC device includes a PTC layer, first and second electrodes formed on the PTC layer, first and second insulating layers formed respectively on the first and second electrodes, and first and second terminals connected respectively and electricall... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6922131 | Electrical device An electrical device suitable for use in digital telecommunications applications is provided. The device includes a laminar PTC element composed of a conductive polymer composition sandwiched between two metal foil electrodes. A first insulating layer which is compo... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6917505 | Secondary batteries having a protective circuit A protective circuit for a secondary battery is formed with a heater and a thermistor that are connected in parallel, and a main fuse is connected in series with the parallel circuit. In a secondary battery equipped with this protective circuit, a charging/dischargi... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6850145 | Self-recovering current-limiting device with liquid metal A self-recovering current-limiting device with a liquid metal includes a first and a second electrode for connection to an electric circuit to be protected. Each of the first and second electrodes are made of a solid metal. A plurality of pressure-resistant insulati... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6809626 | Over-current protection device An over-current protection device comprises a positive temperature coefficient material layer, an upper electrode foil, a lower electrode foil, a first metal terminal layer, a second metal terminal layer and at least one insulating layer. The upper electrode foil is... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6809625 | Integrated connector and positive thermal coefficient switch A connector to supply power or communications to a printed circuit board having positive thermal coefficient switches embedded in or mounted on the connector. These positive thermal coefficient switches are linked to connector leads that in turn are connected to lea... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6801117 | Fault sensing wire and alarm apparatus A fault sensing electrical wire (411) utilized one or more sensor strips (407) which provide an impedance change when the wire is subject to an overtemperature condition or mechanical damage of the wire. A control unit (402) measures the impedan... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6781502 | Method of forming a protection circuit and structure therefor A protection circuit (10) is formed to protected a load (11) when a short circuit develops during operation of the load (11). A load transistor (18) is formed to couple the load to a voltage return terminal. A disable transistor (19 | 08/24/2004 |
| 6714115 | Self-recovering current limiting device with liquid metal A self-recovering device current limiting device with liquid metal includes two solid metal electrodes for connecting to an electric circuit to be protected. Several compression chambers partially filled with liquid metal are arranged one after the other between the... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6710698 | Semiconductor fuse for electrical consumers A semiconductor fuse for electrical consumers (2) is disclosed, in which a semiconductor switch (3) is disposed between the battery (1) serving as a current- or voltage source and the consumer (2). Parallel to the semiconductor switch ( | 03/23/2004 |
| 6657531 | Fuse circuit using capacitors as fuse elements A fuse circuit includes electrical fuse elements which are commonly connected at one-side ends, a voltage generating section and a readout section. The voltage generating section is configured to selectively apply program voltage for destroying the electr... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6621401 | Self-recovering current limiting device having liquid metal A self-recovering current-limiting device with a liquid metal includes two T-shaped electrodes for connection to an electric circuit to be protected. Each of the electrodes are made of a solid metal. Several compressor cavities which are partially filled ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6603384 | Self-recovering current-limiting device having liquid metal A self-recovering current-limiting device having liquid metal includes solid metal electrodes for connecting to an external electric circuit to be protected. A plurality of compression spaces which are partially filled with liquid metal are arranged one b... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6600405 | Self-regenerating current limter with liquid metal A self-regenerating current limiter with liquid metal includes solid metal electrodes for connection of the current limiter to an electric circuit to be protected. A plurality of compression chambers that are partially filled with liquid metal are located... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6587027 | Solid state fuse A solid state fuse type protective circuit is provided in which a series MOSFET is connected in series with the load and its voltage source and a shunt MOSFET is connected in parallel with the load. A control circuit turns the series MOSFET on and the shu... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6512444 | Fault sensing wire and alarm apparatus A fault sensing electrical wire (411) utilizes one or more sensor strips (407) which provide an impedance change when the wire is subject to an overtemperature condition or mechanical damage of the wire. A control unit (402) measures the impedance of the ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6489879 | PTC fuse including external heat source An improved PTC fuse assembly is described. The PTC fuse assembly includes a PTC fuse having a PTC material. To expedite heating of the PTC material, the improved PTC fuse assembly includes a die package in thermal communication with the PTC material. The... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6388553 | Conductive polymer current-limiting fuse Conductive polymer current-limiting fuses. when connected in series with conventional mechanical circuit breakers, exhibit extremely low let-through values. Particularly, conductive polymer current-limiting fuses based on conductive elastomeric material a... | 05/14/2002 |
| 5963121 | Resettable fuse The present invention relates to compositions for use in forming resettable electronic circuit protection devices or fuses, methods of forming resettable fuses using the compositions, and resettable fuses formed from the compositions. Resettable fuse comp... | 10/05/1999 |
| 4326766 | Optionally fused connector device This invention relates to a connector device, and more particularly to an electrical connector plug, jack, tapping device or receptacle which provides a direct current path between an input and an output terminal, which path is automatically opened respon... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4157522 | Electrical melting fuse combined with a Peltier element The present electrical melting fuse is current flow direction responsive. For this purpose the melting conductor is in heat exchange contact with a surface of a Peltier element which surface changes its temperature in response to a change in the flow dire... | 06/05/1979 |
