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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2000
Yoshihisa Sawada, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Kouichirou Harada, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Shatou, Tokyo, JP;
Naoto Kitahara, Tokyo, JP;
Kazutaka Hujiwara, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Nakamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Heisen Ryu, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Inaba, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuya Saruwatari, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A chip-type surge absorber and method for producing same, wherein the chip-type surge absorber includes an insulating substrate in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped; an insulating hermetic cap open at a bottom side thereof, for forming, together with the insulating substrate, a box-shaped hermetically sealed cavity filled with a discharge gas; terminal electrodes disposed at both ends in the hermetically sealed cavity; a pair of discharge electrodes which are formed in the hermetically sealed cavity such that a discharge gap is formed between the discharge electrodes and such that the discharge electrodes are electrically connected to corresponding terminal electrodes; and connection surfaces for increasing the connection area for the connection between the discharge electrodes and the terminal electrodes.