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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2007
Dominic Anthony Farole, Hummelstown, PA (US);
Keith Edwin Miller, Manheim, PA (US);
Dominic Anthony Farole, Hummelstown, PA (US);
Keith Edwin Miller, Manheim, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Coporation, Middletown, PA (US);
Abstract
An array of thin metallic foil strips of predetermined thickness electrically connected to a printed circuit board, cables or attached to wires. An associated power source, on the printed circuit board, or attached to the circuit board, cables or wires, directs an electrical current through L-shaped contacts to one or more of the strips in the array of foil strips. The foil strips are in contact with horizontal legs of the L-shaped contacts. Depending upon the use of the circuit board, the foil strips can be used to start or to end an operation. The selection of the foil strip makes use of the electrical properties of the selected metal such as its resistivity as well as the thickness, length and width of the foil strips to provide a strip with characteristics required to achieve a preselected result. As an electric current is provided by a power source, it passes through one or more foil strips. The application of current through the metallic material can be used to achieve a number of results, such as to act as a heating element.