Fusible link
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsShinya Onoda, Toshiharu Kudo, Yoshihiko Nakahama, Takanori Kawai
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Abstract
A plurality of fuse circuits are layered with a space therebetween in a housing. A fusible portion of one of the layered fuse circuits is offset from a fusible portion of an adjacent one of the layered fuse circuits perpendicularly to a direction in which the fuse circuits are layered. A connection plate of one of the layered fuse circuits is offset from a connection plate of an adjacent one of the layered fuse circuits perpendicularly to a direction in which the fuse circuits are layered. The connection plate has a U-shaped extended portion.
Claims3
A fusible link (1) comprising:
- a connection plate (2),
- a fusible portion (3) continuous with one side of the connection plate (2),
- a terminal (4) continuous with the fusible portion (3),
- at least one ruse element (5) having the fusible portion (3) and the terminal (4),
- a fuse circuit (6) having the connection plate (2) continuous with the fuse element (5), and
- a housing (7) accommodating the fuse circuit (6),
- wherein a plurality of the fuse circuits (6), including upper fuse circuits (61) and lower fuse circuits (62), are layered with a space therebetween in the housing (7), the fusible portion (3) of one of the layered fuse circuits (6) being offset from the fusible portion (3) of an other of the plurality of the fuse circuits (6) which is disposed adjacent the one of the layered fuse circuits (6), said offset being perpendicular to a direction in which the fuse circuits (6) are layered and along a direction directed outwardly from the one side of the connection plate from which the fusible portion (3) is continuous, the fusible portion (3) including upper fusible portions (31) of the upper fuse circuit (61) and lower fusible portions (32) of the lower fuse circuit (62), and
- wherein both the fusible portions (31) of upper fuse circuits (61) and the fusible portions (32) of lower fuse circuits (62) received in the housing (7) are covered with a transparent cover (8) so as to permit detection of the upper fusible portions (31) and the lower fusible portions (32) from the outside of the housing (7), respectively, and wherein the upper fuse circuit (61) has the connection plate (21) formed with a U-shaped portion (21b) positioned horizontally and the lower fuse circuit (6) has the connection plate (22) formed with a U-shaped portion (22b) bent from the lower fuse circuit (62) to rise vertically.
A fusible link (1) comprising;
- a connection plate (2),
- a fusible portion (3) continuous with one side of the connection piece (2),
- a terminal (4) continuous with the fusible portion (3),
- at least one fuse element (5) having the fusible portion (3) and the terminal (4),
- a fuse circuit (6) having the connection plate (2) continuous with the fuse element (5), and
- a housing (7) accommodating the fuse circuit (6),
- wherein a plurality of the fuse circuits (6) are layered with a space therebetween in the housing (7), the fuseible portion (3) of one of the layered fuse circuits (6) being offset from the fusible portion (3) of another of the plurality of the fuse circuits (6) which is disposed adjacent the one of the layered fuse circuits (6), said offset being perpendicular to a direction in which the fuse circuits (6) are layered and along a direction directed outwardly from the one side of the connection plate from which the fusible portion (3) is continuous, and
- wherein the connection plate (2) is elongated and has a U-shaped cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the connection plate (2).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.