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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. 10, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeffrey A. West, Bellville, OH (US);
Assignee:
Therm-Q-Disc, Incorporated, Mansfield, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01C 7/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01C 7/10 ;
Abstract
A plurality of PTC material layers and a plurality of metal plates are sandwiched together with one adjacent pair of metal plates connected in series through one layer of PTC material. The remaining PTC material layers are connected in parallel with the one layer by selectively interconnecting the other metal plates with the one adjacent pair of metal plates.