Welded Composite Fuse Element and Method of Manufacture

    公开(公告)号:US20240021396A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-18

    申请号:US17865719

    申请日:2022-07-15

    IPC分类号: H01H85/38 H01H85/00 H01H69/02

    摘要: The disclosed concept relates generally to overlay composite fuse elements, materials for their construction that include copper and silver metals, and methods of production and fabrication using metal stamping and ultrasonic welding processes. In certain embodiments, a composite overlay fuse element includes a composite metal material 37 constructed of silver and copper metals, which includes a plurality of strain absorbing bend features 39 constructed of copper metal, and a plurality of arc interrupting weak spot features 43 constructed of a silver metal portion and a copper metal portion. The silver and copper metal portions on each of the plurality of arc interrupting weak spot features 43 are connected by a weld joint surface 45 that is structured to form an overlay of the silver and copper metal portions.

    DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF PRINTED FUSE
    7.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230187160A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US18165806

    申请日:2023-02-07

    摘要: A power fuse for protecting an electrical load subject to transient load current cycling events in a direct current electrical power system is provided. The power fuse includes at least one fuse element assembly that includes one or more substrates, one or more sets of weak spots, and a conductor. The weak spots are formed on the substrates, and the substrates are longitudinally spaced apart from one another along the conductor. The conductor is separately provided from the substrate and the weak spots. The conductor includes one or more strips of metal having no stamped weak spot openings therein and therefore avoiding thermal-mechanical fatigue strain in the conductor when subjected to the transient load current cycling events. The conductor includes connector sections that are attached to respective ones of the sets of weak spots, and extending sections coupling the connector sections.

    FUSE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FUSE

    公开(公告)号:US20230051371A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-16

    申请号:US17792964

    申请日:2020-12-10

    IPC分类号: H01H69/02 H01H85/12

    摘要: Provided are a fuse having a structure that facilitates bending of a fuse element, and a method for manufacturing the fuse. In a fuse including a fuse element having a pair of terminal portions, a middle portion provided between the terminal portions, and a fusing portion provided in the middle portion, at least two or more of the middle portions are provided in the terminal portion, at least one of the middle portions is bent along a long direction such that a center side protrudes from long sides on both sides, and the middle portions are disposed to face each other when the terminal portion is folded at a bending point K2 of the terminal portion.

    High breaking capacity chip fuse
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11508542B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US17530008

    申请日:2021-11-18

    申请人: Littelfuse, Inc.

    摘要: A high breaking capacity chip fuse including a bottom insulative layer, a first intermediate insulative layer, a second intermediate insulative layer, and a top insulative layer disposed in a stacked arrangement in the aforementioned order, a fusible element disposed between the first and second intermediate insulative layers and extending between electrically conductive first and second terminals at opposing longitudinal ends of the bottom insulative layer, the first intermediate insulative layer, the second intermediate insulative layer, and the top insulative layer, wherein the first and second intermediate insulative layers are formed of porous ceramic.