EP0576836A2 - Dispositif limitant le courant - Google Patents

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EP0576836A2
EP0576836A2 EP93108622A EP93108622A EP0576836A2 EP 0576836 A2 EP0576836 A2 EP 0576836A2 EP 93108622 A EP93108622 A EP 93108622A EP 93108622 A EP93108622 A EP 93108622A EP 0576836 A2 EP0576836 A2 EP 0576836A2
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Felix Dr. Greuter
Claus Dr. Schüler
Ralf Dr. Strümpler
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    • HELECTRICITY
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    • H01CRESISTORS
    • H01C7/00Non-adjustable resistors formed as one or more layers or coatings; Non-adjustable resistors made from powdered conducting material or powdered semi-conducting material with or without insulating material
    • H01C7/02Non-adjustable resistors formed as one or more layers or coatings; Non-adjustable resistors made from powdered conducting material or powdered semi-conducting material with or without insulating material having positive temperature coefficient
    • H01C7/027Non-adjustable resistors formed as one or more layers or coatings; Non-adjustable resistors made from powdered conducting material or powdered semi-conducting material with or without insulating material having positive temperature coefficient consisting of conducting or semi-conducting material dispersed in a non-conductive organic material
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01CRESISTORS
    • H01C7/00Non-adjustable resistors formed as one or more layers or coatings; Non-adjustable resistors made from powdered conducting material or powdered semi-conducting material with or without insulating material
    • H01C7/13Non-adjustable resistors formed as one or more layers or coatings; Non-adjustable resistors made from powdered conducting material or powdered semi-conducting material with or without insulating material current-responsive

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  • PTC resistors can therefore be used as overload protection for circuits. Because of their limited conductivity - carbon-filled polymers, for example, have a specific resistance greater than 1 ⁇ cm - their practical application generally limits them to nominal currents up to approx. 8 A at 30 V and up to approx. 0.2 A at 250 V.
  • the filler provided in the first resistance material contains electrically conductive particles in the form of carbon and / or a metal, such as nickel, and / or at least one boride, silicide, oxide and / or carbide, such as TiC2, TiB2, MoSi2 or V2O3, each in undoped or doped form.
  • the concentration and the geometric dimensions of the filler provided in the partial resistance bodies 5 are dimensioned such that current commutation can take place locally from a partial resistance body 4 to a partial resistance body 5.
  • the filler provided in the partial resistance bodies 5 can, but need not necessarily, form continuous current paths.
  • the proportion of the filler forming the partial resistance body 4 can be between 15 and 50 vol% and that of the filler forming the partial resistance body 5 between 5 and 40 vol%, the polymer matrix embedding the filler should have a proportion of 20-60 vol% of the resistance body 3 .
  • the resistance bodies 3 can subsequently be cut up by cutting.
  • the resistance bodies produced in this way can have, for example, a length of 0.5 to 20 cm and end faces of, for example, 0.5 to 10 cm2.
  • the end faces of the resistance structure 3 having a sandwich structure are smoothed, for example by lapping and polishing, and can be connected to the contact connections 1, 2, for example, by soldering with a low-melting solder or by gluing with a conductive adhesive or by hot pressing.
  • the current-limiting elements according to FIGS. 6 to 8 can be produced as follows:
  • the disks 50 and ring bodies 51 can be produced from powdered ceramic material, such as from suitable metal oxides, by pressing and sintering.
  • the diameters of the disks can be, for example, between 0.5 and 5 cm and those of the ring bodies between 1 and 10 cm with a thickness of, for example, between 0.05 and 1 cm.
  • the disks 50 are stacked with the contact disks 6 lying between them.
  • the contact washers 6 may have holes 7 of any shape in the edge area and may even be designed as a grid.
  • the stack is placed in a mold.
  • the free space between the contact disks 6 is then filled with polymeric PTC material to form the ring body 40 and the cast stack is cured.
  • the top and bottom of the stack are then contacted.

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EP93108622A 1992-06-29 1993-05-28 Dispositif limitant le courant Expired - Lifetime EP0576836B1 (fr)

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DE4221309A DE4221309A1 (de) 1992-06-29 1992-06-29 Strombegrenzendes Element

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EP0576836A3 EP0576836A3 (en) 1994-07-13
EP0576836B1 EP0576836B1 (fr) 1997-08-06

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JP (1) JP3433974B2 (fr)
AT (1) ATE156627T1 (fr)
DE (2) DE4221309A1 (fr)
ES (1) ES2107580T3 (fr)
NO (1) NO306229B1 (fr)

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ATE156627T1 (de) 1997-08-15
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DE4221309A1 (de) 1994-01-05
EP0576836B1 (fr) 1997-08-06
JP3433974B2 (ja) 2003-08-04
NO306229B1 (no) 1999-10-04
DE59307055D1 (de) 1997-09-11
US5414403A (en) 1995-05-09
ES2107580T3 (es) 1997-12-01
NO932339L (no) 1993-12-30
EP0576836A3 (en) 1994-07-13

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