Thermal fuse system for an electrical device
OwnerRainer Durth, Christian Depping +1inventors
InventorsRainer Durth, Christian Depping, Thomas Meyer
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Abstract
The invention concerns a system for thermal safeguarding of an electric device comprising several monitored components and/or monitoring points. According to the invention, the system comprises at least one thermosensitive element and one actuator coordinated with this thermosensitive element, wherein the thermosensitive element is configured as a sleeve or tube, to which the monitored components or monitoring points are thermally coupled, such that it undergoes a change in length or volume above a threshold temperature, and is connected to the actuator such that the actuator triggers an action in dependence on the change in length or volume of the thermosensitive element.
Claims20
An electric device with a system for thermal safeguarding of several components and/or monitoring points to be monitored, the electric device comprising:
- at least one thermosensitive element;
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- one actuator dedicated with the thermosensitive element
- wherein the thermosensitive element is flexibly arranged on the electric device to be monitored in a sleeve or tube that is basically thermally shape-stable,
- wherein the thermosensitive element is thermally coupled to the components or monitoring points to be monitored,
- wherein the thermosensitive element is configured such that it undergoes a change in length or volume upon overheating of a component or monitoring point above a threshold temperature, and
- wherein the thermosensitive element is connected to the actuator such that the actuator triggers an action in dependence on the change in length or volume of the thermosensitive element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.