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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2017
Te Connectivity Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Zachary Wood Lyon, Lewisville, NC (US);
Jeremy Christian Patterson, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abraham Louis Shocket, Cary, NC (US);
TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
A power terminal includes a terminal beam having a mating surface. A protective thermal coupler bridge is positioned adjacent the terminal beam having a bridge conductor, an insulating substrate and a bridge pad. The bridge pad has a mating surface. A variable resistive member is electrically coupled between the terminal beam and the bridge conductor to provide a shunt so that arcing does not occur when the power terminal is disconnected from the mating power terminal. The mating surface of the terminal beam is separable before the mating surface of the bridge pad is disconnected so that the resistance in the variable resistive member increases after disconnection of the main power terminal from the mating power terminal and prior to disconnection of the bridge pad from the mating power terminal to shunt the current through the bridge conductor and the variable resistive member during unmating.