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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1981
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joe Wong, Schenectady, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
252519 ; 252518 ; 252521 ; 252512 ;
Abstract
A method for producing varistors and varistor powder is disclosed in which the zinc oxide powder is predoped with certain desired impurities in order to keep these impurities out of the intergranular phase which is known to exist in sintered metal oxide varistors. In particular, certain trivalent dopants are added to increase the zinc oxide grain conductivity without the usually concomitant increase in higher leakage current. In particular, the method disclosed herein is especially important for the doping of varistor material with aluminum at low levels of concentration.