Abstract: A novel non-linear resistance element or varistor element is provided by the invention. The body of the element is a ceramic sintered body mainly composed of titanium dioxide admixed with small amounts of oxides of niobium, tantalum and/or antimony and electrodes are provided with a metallic material. Different from the conventional varistor elements, the electrode is bonded to the sintered body with ohmic contact by the techniques of flame spraying or electroless plating depending on the kind of the metallic material for the electrode selected from silver, aluminum, nickel and the like. Further improvement is proposed to increase the bonding strength of lead wires on to the electrodes by soldering as accomplished by providing a layer of a material having good solder-receptivity on the electrode which also serves for preventing the oxidation of the electrode material.

Abstract: A novel non-linear resistance element or a varistor element is proposed which is a sintered body composed of a ternary oxide mixture comprising titanium dioxide as the base component, bismuth oxide and a third oxide component selected from the group consisting of oxides of tantalum, niobium and antimony admixed in limited proportions. The sintered body is prepared by subjecting the powder mixture obtained by admixing a solution containing tantalum, niobium or antimony with titanium dioxide and bismuth oxide to sintering following drying and calcination. The varistor element of the invention is stable in its performance and has a sufficiently high non-linearity index so that excellent noise suppressors are prepared with the varistor element to be useful in absorbing the noise voltages generated in various rotatory machines such as miniature motors.Further improvement in the above varistor element is proposed by adding a small amount of silicon dioxide to the ternary oxide mixtures.

Abstract: A non-linear resistor comprises a sintered body of a ceramic composition which comprises 99.93 to 50 mole % of zinc oxide as ZnO; 0.01 to 10 mole % of a specific rare earth oxide as R.sub.2 O.sub.3 (R represents lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium or lutetium) 0.01 to 10 mole % of an alkaline earth oxide as MO (M represents calcium, strontium or barium) and 0.05 to 30 mole % of cobalt oxide as CoO.

Abstract: A non-linear resistor comprises a sintered body of a ceramic composition which comprises 99.94 to 80.0 mole % of zinc oxide as ZnO, 0.02 to 10.0 mole % of the specific rare earth oxide selected from the group consisting of oxides of cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium as R.sub.2 O.sub.3, and 0.04 to 10 mole % of manganese oxide as MnO.