Electro-mechanical fuse for detecting monitored component deflection
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJonathan D. Bradbury, Jonathan R. Fry, Michael R. Kane
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Abstract
An electro-mechanical fuse is provided and includes a chassis component, an extrusion disposed on a monitored component which is disposable proximate to the chassis component and a sensor. The sensor is mounted to the chassis component. The sensor is mechanically breakable in power-on and power-off conditions by the extrusion as a result of a predefined action of or relative to the monitored component. The sensor electrically signals an occurrence of the mechanical breakage during power-on conditions following mechanical breakage.
Claims16
An electro-mechanical fuse, comprising:
- a chassis component;
- an extrusion disposed on a monitored component which is disposable proximate to the chassis component;
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- a sensor mounted to the chassis component to be mechanically breakable in power-on and power-off conditions by the extrusion as a result of a predefined magnitude of deflection of the monitored component and, during power-on conditions following mechanical breakage, to electrically signal an occurrence of the mechanical breakage.
An electro-mechanical fuse for identifying deflection of a monitored component, the electro-mechanical fuse comprising:
- a chassis component comprising a mounting;
- a conductor assembly comprising an encased conducting filament and circuitry configured to identify encased conducting filament breakage,
- the encased conducting filament being supportively disposable on the mounting such that the encased conducting filament oppositely faces and is separate from the chassis component and the monitored component, respectively;
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- an extrusion disposed on the monitored component to impact and then break the encased conducting filament upon a predefined action of or relative to the monitored component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.