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US 12,749,631 B2Granted
Electrical contact system with liquid metal layer and diffusion barrier
AssigneeEaton Intelligent Power Limited
InventorsStanislav Kadlec, Sandy Omar Jimenez, Christian Ruempler, Mykhailo Gnybida
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Abstract
An electrical contact system includes a first contact, a first diffusion layer disposed on the first contact, a first liquid metal layer disposed on the first diffusion layer, a second contact, a second diffusion layer disposed on the second contact, and a second liquid metal layer disposed on the second diffusion layer.
Claims15
An electrical contact system comprising:
- a first contact;
- a first diffusion layer disposed on the first contact;
- a first liquid metal layer disposed on the first diffusion layer;
- a second contact;
- a second diffusion layer disposed on the second contact;
- and
- a second liquid metal layer disposed on the second diffusion layer.
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A method of forming an electrical contact system comprising:
- providing a first contact;
- depositing a first diffusion layer on the first contact;
- depositing a first liquid metal layer on the first diffusion layer;
- providing a second contact;
- depositing a second diffusion layer on the second contact;
- and
- depositing a second liquid metal layer on the second diffusion layer.
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An electrical contact system comprising:
- a first contact;
- a first diffusion layer disposed on the first contact;
- a first liquid metal layer disposed on the first diffusion layer;
- a second contact;
- a second diffusion layer disposed on the second contact;
- a second liquid metal layer disposed on the second diffusion layer;
- a crossbar having a first contact area disposed over at least a portion of the first contact and second contact area disposed over the second contact;
- a third diffusion layer disposed on the first contact area of the crossbar;
- a third liquid metal layer disposed on the third diffusion layer;
- a fourth diffusion layer disposed on the second contact area of the crossbar;
- and
- a fourth liquid metal layer disposed on the fourth diffusion layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.