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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2014
Sensata Technologies Massachusetts, Inc., Attelboro, MA (US);
Kevin J. Dropps, Berkley, MA (US);
Leo Zhong, Kunshan, CN;
Changyin Wang, Changzhou, CN;
Jian Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Sensata Technologies Massachusetts, Inc., Attleboro, MA (US);
Abstract
Certain configurations of the present disclosure present a PTC starter. The PTC starter includes a housing, a first conductive terminal (), a second conductive terminal (), a control PTC thermistor (), a start PTC thermistor () and a TRIAC (), wherein the control PTC thermistor (), the start PTC thermistor () and the TRIAC () being accommodated in the housing, the start PTC thermistor () being connected in series with the TRIAC (), wherein one electrode of the control PTC thermistor () is connected with the gate (G) of the TRIAC (), the control PTC thermistor () is connected in series with the start PTC thermistor (), the volume of the control PTC thermistor () is less than 30 mm3, and the distance between the control PTC thermistor () and the start PTC thermistor () is less than 5 mm.