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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiromi Katsumata, Gotemba, JP;
Takashi Masuda, Susono, JP;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361 26 ; 361105 ; 361 25 ;
Abstract
A motor protector (1) for use in an electrical circuit for supplying current to a motor (10) to be protected having two separate bimetallic disk actuated switches (4, 5) contained within the protector (1) electrically connected in series with each other and the current source (13) and motor (10). In one embodiment, one of the two switches (6) uses a two bimetallic disk design in which the disks have different temperature actuations and reset values for providing a fail-safe feature.