Robert Bosch

Ernst H Dull

Hans Georg Zeller

Carsten Bube

Gerd Thiele

Safety apparatus for a motor vehicle electric consumer having a temperature-dependent internal resistance, which includes a temperature indicating circuit for providing a signal which accurately indicates the consumer temperature to a threshold switch which actuates a switching device to interrupt current flow through the consumer whenever the consumer temperature exceeds a predetermined maximum value. The temperature indicating circuit either may be a consumer resistance measuring circuit such as a bridge circuit including the consumer in one leg thereof, or may be a consumer temperature replicating circuit, connected in parallel with the consumer, such as a special RC network. The switching device either may be a switch connected in series with the consumer, or a switch connected in parallel with the consumer, in which case the apparatus also includes an overcurrent device connected in series with the parallel combination of the switch and the consumer.

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Darmstadt, Germany

Ernst H Dull