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US 12,334,291 B2Granted
Fuse
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Pacific Engineering Corp.
InventorsKiyokazu Akiyama, Katsumi Yuasa, Ryohei Ono, Kenji Osada, Syuya Kataoka
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Abstract
A fuse includes: an element including a plurality of narrow portions each of which becomes a starting point of fusion cutting; a pair of terminals connected by the element; and a case housing the element, in which the element has a curved surface, and is disposed in a tube shape.
Claims5
A fuse comprising:
- an element in a tube shape, the element including a plurality of narrow portions each of which becomes a starting point of fusion cutting;
- a pair of terminals connected by the element;
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- a case housing the element, wherein
- the element is constituted by a plurality of elements each of which connecting the pair of terminals,
- the plurality of elements being separate from each other in a circumferential direction of the tube shape by a gap that extends between the pair of terminals,
- each of the plurality of elements being curved into an arc, collectively the plurality of elements form a circular tube shape or an elliptic tube shape, and
- each of the plurality of elements includes an equal number of the narrow portions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.