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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2013
Commscope Technologies Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Frantisek Hrnicko, Pardubice, CZ;
Vaclav Volf, Pardubice, CZ;
Libor Strachon, Holice, CZ;
Thomas Kummetz, Kissing, DE;
Stefan Eisenwinter, Buchdorf, DE;
Matthew Thomas Melester, Mckinney, TX (US);
Jürgen Struller, Bergen, DE;
Gabriel Toth, Pardubice, CZ;
CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects are directed to a thermal fuse for preventing overheating of RF devices in a telecommunication system. The RF thermal fuse includes a body, a conductive bolt, and a driving mechanism. The body can be positioned on a transmission line between an RF signal source and an RF device. The conductive bolt is positioned in the body. The conductive bolt has a length sufficient to provide impedance at a point of protection on the transmission line in response to the conductive bolt contacting a live conductor of the transmission line. The impedance is sufficient to reflect a portion of the incident power of an RF signal from the RF source. The driving mechanism can cause the conductive bolt to contact the live conductor in response to a temperature at or near the point of protection exceeding a threshold temperature.