USB cable with thermal protection
AssigneeLittelfuse, Inc.
InventorsBoris Golubovic, Kunghao Yu
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Abstract
A cable including a power conductor configured to transmit electrical power between a first device and a second device, a first data conductor configured to transmit data between the first device and the second device, and a first bimetallic switch coupled to the first data conductor and configured to mitigate current flowing through the first data conductor if a temperature of the first bimetallic switch exceeds a predefined first trip temperature, wherein the opening of the first data line indicates a fault condition to a device to which the cable is connected, whereby electrical power flowing through the power conductor is resultantly mitigated.
Claims9
A cable comprising:
- a power conductor configured to transmit electrical power between a first device and a second device;
- a first data conductor configured to transmit data between the first device and the second device;
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- a first bimetallic switch coupled to the first data conductor and configured to mitigate current flowing through the first data conductor if a temperature of the first bimetallic switch exceeds a predefined first trip temperature, wherein opening of the first data conductor indicates a fault condition to at least one of the first device and the second device, whereby electrical power flowing through the power conductor is resultantly mitigated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.