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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2015
Komatsulite Mfg. Co., Ltd., Suita-shi, Osaka, JP;
Masashi Namikawa, Suita, JP;
Takuya Sunada, Suita, JP;
KOMATSULITE MFG. CO., LTD., Suita-shi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A circuit breakercomprises: a fixed-contact piecewith a fixed contact; a movable-contact piecewith a movable contact; a thermal actuator elementthermally transformable to move the movable-contact piece; a PTC thermistorfor conducting electricity between the movable-contact pieceand the fixed-contact piece; a main bodyof a package provided with a holding recesshousing the above-mentioned components; and a coverhermetically covering the holding recess. The fixed-contact pieceis embedded between an internal walland an external wallof the main body. The PTC thermistoris housed in an opened hollow. In a planar view of the circuit breaker, a through-holepenetrating through the external walloverlaps with the opened hollow, but does not overlap with the centroid O of the opened hollow