Patent ID: 6215636
Filing Date: 2001-04-10
Classification: H01C,H01H

Abstract:
A device for distributing electrical energy to a plurality of electrical circuits supplied in parallel from a single source of electrical energy, comprising:a busbar connected to a source of electrical energy;a plurality of electrical contacts each connected to said busbar and forming a part of a respective circuit to be supplied with electrical energy from the source of electrical energy;a plurality of self-resetting fuses soldered to said busbar, each of said fuses being formed of a laminate including a dispersion layer of a dispersion of an electrically conductive particulate material in a polymer between first and second plane and mutually parallel electrodes electrically connected to said busbar and to said electrical contacts, respectively, said fuses being electrically isolated from one another by grooves formed in said dispersion layer between said electrodes, said grooves defining individual fuses with an area proportional to a maximally admissible current in the respectively associated circuit.