Protection element and protection circuit
AssigneeDexerials Corporation
InventorKoichi Mukai
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Abstract
A protection element (10) of the present invention has a substrate (11), a first fuse element (12) and a second fuse element (13) connected in series on the substrate (11), a heater (14) connected between the first fuse element (12) and the second fuse element (13), a third upper electrode part (17) connected between the first fuse element (12) and the second fuse element (13) and connected to the heater (14) in series, a first conduction part (18) connected to the third upper electrode part (17) and having a lower resistance value than the heater (14), and a third lower electrode part (19) connected to the first conduction part (18) and configured to be connectable to an external protection circuit.
Claims6
A protection circuit comprising:
- a plurality of protection elements connected in parallel,
- wherein each protection element configuring the plurality of protection elements has a first fuse element and a second fuse element connected in series,
- a heater connected between the first fuse element and the second fuse element,
- a first electrode part connected to a first end portion of the first fuse element on a side opposite to the second fuse element,
- a second electrode part connected to a first end portion of the second fuse element on a side opposite to the first fuse element,
- a third electrode part connected to both of a second end portion of the first fuse element and a second end portion of the second fuse element and connected to the heater in series,
- a conduction part directly connected to the third electrode part and having a lower resistance value than the heater, and
- a fourth electrode part directly connected to the conduction part and provided to be connectable to an external protection circuit,
- wherein the plurality of protection elements are connected in parallel,
- the protection circuit includes a bypass circuit connecting a plurality of the fourth electrode parts provided in the plurality of protection elements,
- the first fuse element and the second fuse element are integrally formed,
- the second end portion of the first fuse element and the second end portion of the second fuse element are directly connected,
- the third electrode part and the fourth electrode part are connected through the heater, and
- the conduction part is formed along at least one through hole penetrating a substrate in a thickness direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.