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US 10,074,501 B2Granted
Non-arcing fuse
AssigneeLittelfuse, Inc.
InventorBrian Johnson
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Abstract
An arc-mitigating fuse including a tubular fuse body, a first endcap covering a first end of the fuse body and a second endcap covering a second end of the fuse body, a fusible element disposed within the fuse body and extending between the first endcap and the second endcap to provide an electrically conductive pathway therebetween, and an arc-mitigating element disposed within the fuse body and held in a compressed state between the first endcap and the second endcap, the arc-mitigating element adapted to extend to an uncompressed state upon separation of the fusible element.
Claims10
An arc-mitigating fuse comprising:
- a tubular fuse body;
- a first endcap covering a first end of the fuse body and a second endcap covering a second end of the fuse body;
- a fusible element disposed within the fuse body and extending between the first endcap and the second endcap to provide an electrically conductive pathway therebetween;
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- an arc-mitigating element disposed within the fuse body and held in a compressed state between the first endcap and the second endcap, the arc-mitigating element adapted to extend to an uncompressed state upon separation of the fusible element, the arc-mitigating element providing a first electrically conductive pathway extending from the first end cap to the second endcap, and the fusible element providing a second electrically conductive pathway extending from the first end cap to the second endcap, the first and second electrically conductive pathways being electrically in parallel with one another and being electrically independent and separate from one another.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.