Abstract:
A switch device capable of safely opening an electrical circuit in response to an abnormality such as wetting with water or liquid leaking from a battery. The device includes a first conductor connected to an external circuit and having a relatively high ionization tendency, and a second conductor arranged close to the first conductor and having a relatively low ionization tendency which is lower than that of the first conductor, a reaction part which electrically corrodes the first conductor is formed by a liquid between the first and second conductors.
Abstract:
It is an object of the invention to provide an electric wire having an excellent electrical conductivity in use of the high melting point metal and being able to surely cut off by fusing the conductive material itself at a temperature lower than the melting point of the high melting point metal, even where heat is generated from flowing overcurrent in the electrical circuit. The electric wire of the invention has a feature including a conductive material formed of a first conductive member made of a low melting point metal, and a second conductive member made of a high melting point metal, which are provided adjacent to each other, wherein the conductive material is fused by erosion of the high melting point metal according to melting of the low melting point metal.
Abstract:
A fuse element comprises a low melting point metal layer, a first high melting point metal layer having a higher melting point than a melting point of the low melting point metal layer, and a restricting portion including a high melting point material having a higher melting point than a melting point of the low melting point metal layer and configured to restrict flow of the low melting point metal or deformation of a layered body constituted by the first high melting point metal layer and the low melting point metal layer.
Abstract:
A protection element wherein variations in fusing characteristics are improved by making the amount of a flux applied on a fusible conductor uniform. The protection element includes: an insulating substrate; a heating element laminated on the insulating substrate and covered with an insulating member; first and second electrodes, formed at both ends of the insulating substrate; an internal heating-element electrode laminated on the insulating member so as to be superposed above the heating element; and a fusible conductor whose ends are connected to the first and second electrodes, and center portion of which is connected to the internal heating-element electrode. To both ends of the heating element, there are connected heating element electrodes to connect a power supply to generate heat by passing electric current through the heating element. In the fusible conductor, a depression portion opened upward is formed at a position to be superposed above the heating element.
Abstract:
To provide a protection element evens the amount of flux on a fusible conductor and improves variations in fusing characteristics. A protection element is provided with: an insulated substrate; a heating body; an insulating member; two electrodes; a heating body internal electrode; a fusible conductor which is stacked over the two electrodes from the heating body internal electrode and fuses a current path between the two electrodes by heating; a flux coated on the fusible conductor so as to superimpose on the heating body; and a cover member attached to the insulated substrate covering at least the fusible conductor. The cover member has a cylindrical protrusion formed on an inner surface of the cover member so as to contact the flux, and a communication hole communicating with the inner surface side of the cover member from the protrusion is opened on a side wall surface of the cover member.
Abstract:
A protective element including a substrate having a first insulating member and a concave portion formed thereon, a heating body layered on the concave portion of the substrate, a second insulating member layered on the substrate so as to cover at least covering the heating body, first and second electrodes layered on a surface of the substrate on which the second insulating member is layered, a heating body electrode layered on the second insulating member so as to be superimposed with the heating body, and electrically connected to a current path between the first and the second electrodes as well as onto and the heating body, and a low-melting point metal layered from the heating body electrode toward the first and the second electrodes configured to cause a blowout of the current path between the first and the second electrodes by heating.