Bimetal controller
AssigneeStego-Holding GmbH
InventorsElmar Mangold, Andreas J. Beckmann
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Abstract
A bimetallic controller, having a switching device and at least one bimetal device which is or can be actively connected to the switching device such as to allow the switching device to be switched in a temperature-dependent fashion. The bimetal device includes at least one first bimetal element and at least one curved second bimetal element that are connected to each other in a zone of contact and are designed in said zone of contact such that the coefficient of thermal expansion of the first bimetal element increases from its bottom to the top and the coefficient of thermal expansion of the curved second bimetal element decreases from its bottom to the top, or vice versa.
Claims10
A bimetal controller, comprising a switching device and at least one bimetal device, which is or can be actively connected to the switching device in such a way as to allow a temperature-dependent switching of the switching device,
- characterized in that
- the bimetal device has at least one first bimetal element and at least one arcuate, second bimetal element, which are connected to each other at a contact region and are formed at the contact region in such a way that the coefficient of thermal expansion of the first bimetal element decreases from the underside thereof to the upper side and the coefficient of thermal expansion of the arcuate, second bimetal element (8) increases from its underside to the upper side, or vice versa.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.