Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Ernst L Hoene

Roman Renz

Juergen Boy

Klaus Gessner

An overvoltage arrester for high surge currents having an increased useful life while maintaining suitable electrical properties comprising a pair of electrodes secured to an insulator housing in confronting, spaced relation to provide a discharge gap, the electrodes being covered with a metallic activation compound comprising metallic barium aluminum dispersed in a matrix of metallic aluminum, the matrix being fused onto the confronting surfaces. Additional metal additives may be embedded or alloyed with the metals of the activation layer.

Gas discharge overvoltage arrester

A vacuum switch tube wherein at least one part which separates the interior of the tube from the environment is soldered to the housing of a vacuum switch tube so as to be vacuum-tight with a soft solder 6 which has a melting point which lies below 400.degree. C. The invention is suitable for vacuum switch tubes which do not have a pump stem, and particularly for protected tubes.

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Berlin, Germany

Ernst L Hoene