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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1995
Joseph F Malecke, South Lyon, MI (US);
Dennis D Kaufman, Farmington, MI (US);
Derrick Titus, Plymouth, MI (US);
TRW Inc., Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Abstract
A vehicle door (22) has a window (24) capable of being opened and closed. A master power window switch assembly (26) is mountable in an arm rest (28) of the door (22) near a driver of the vehicle. A polyswitch resettable fuse (56) is connected to a printed circuit board (50) of a master power window switch assembly (26) through a jumper terminal (58). An electrically conductive trace (52) is electrically connected to the jumper terminal (58). The polyswitch resettable fuse (56) may be used to limit current in the conductive trace (52) on the circuit board (50). Locating the polyswitch resettable fuse (56) between the power source (40) and the circuit board (50) permits design of the conductive traces (52), (53) and the circuit board electrical components for normal operating currents instead of significantly larger foreseeable motor stall current levels.