Abstract: A process for producing a multilayer varistor (MLV) if remained its size unchanged as prior arts is favorable to outstandingly increase overall current-carrying area and improve the performance of final produced MLV; and the MLV has laminated a lower cap, an inner-electrode stack formed from piling up several inner-electrode gaps (g), and an upper cap into a unity, and at least satisfies the condition that the lower cap and the upper cap has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the inner-electrode gap (g), but equal to or greater than 0.1 times of the thickness of the inner-electrode gap (g).

Abstract: A process for producing a multilayer varistor (MLV) if remained its size unchanged as prior arts is favorable to outstandingly increase overall current-carrying area and improve the performance of final produced MLV; and the MLV has laminated a lower cap, an inner-electrode stack formed from piling up several inner-electrode gaps (g), and an upper cap into a unity, and at least satisfies the condition that the lower cap and the upper cap has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the inner-electrode gap (g), but equal to or greater than 0.1 times of the thickness of the inner-electrode gap (g).

Abstract: A ZnO surge arrester for high-temperature operation is characterized in that a grain boundary layer between ZnO grains thereof contains a BaTiO3-based positive temperature coefficient thermistor material, which takes 10-85 mol % in the overall grain boundary layer, and when operating temperature raises, the positive temperature coefficient thermistor material in the grain boundary layer has its resistance sharply increasing with the raising temperature, so as to compensate or partially compensate decrease in resistance of components in the grain boundary layer caused by the raising temperature, thereby making the resistance of the grain boundary layer in the ZnO surge arrester more independent of temperature. The ZnO surge arrester thus is suitable for operation where a maximum operating temperature is higher than 125° C., or even higher than 150° C.

Abstract: A process for producing zinc oxide varistors possessed a property of breakdown voltage (V1mA) ranging from 230 to 1,730 V/mm is to perform the doping of zinc oxide and the sintering of zinc oxide grains with a high-impedance sintered powder through two independent procedures, so that the doped zinc oxide and the high-impedance sintered powder are well mixed in a predetermined ratio and then used to make the zinc oxide varistors through conventional technology by low-temperature sintering (lower than 900° C.); the resultant zinc oxide varistors may use pure silver as inner electrode and particularly possess breakdown voltage ranging from 230 to 1,730 V/mm.

Abstract: A ZnO surge arrester for high-temperature operation is characterized in that a grain boundary layer between ZnO grains thereof contains a BaTiO3-based positive temperature coefficient thermistor material, which takes 10-85 mol % in the overall grain boundary layer, and when operating temperature raises, the positive temperature coefficient thermistor material in the grain boundary layer has its resistance sharply increasing with the raising temperature, so as to compensate or partially compensate decrease in resistance of components in the grain boundary layer caused by the raising temperature, thereby making the resistance of the grain boundary layer in the ZnO surge arrester more independent of temperature. The ZnO surge arrester thus is suitable for operation where a maximum operating temperature is higher than 125° C., or even higher than 150° C.

Abstract: A process for producing zinc oxide varistors is to perform the doping of zinc oxide and the sintering of zinc oxide grains with a high-impedance sintering material through two independent procedures, so that the doped zinc oxide and the high-impedance sintering material are well mixed in a predetermined ratio and then used to make the zinc oxide varistors through conventional technology by low-temperature sintering (lower than 900° C.); the resultant zinc oxide varistors may use pure silver as inner electrode and particularly possess one or more of varistor properties, thermistor properties, capacitor properties, inductor properties, piezoelectricity and magnetism.