Abstract: The invention relates to a conducting track fuse (1) for an electrical or electronic device, comprising: a first and a second connection region (2a, 2b); a nonlinearly extending burn-out region (3), which is arranged between the first and second connection regions (2a, 2b); and a covering element (15), which has at least two side walls (9) and a covering face (8), which covering element is arranged over the first and second connection regions (2a, 2b) and over the burn-out region (3), the burn-out region (3) and the covering element (5) being arranged relative to each other in such a way that the area of the covering face (8) covers the burn-out region (3) and a cavity (7) is formed between the burn-out region (3) and the covering face (8) as a result of the height of the side walls (9).

Abstract: Provided is a protecting device that can prevent damage of the device by releasing the pressure inside the housing by providing openings in the housing and can secure appropriate insulation. The protecting device includes: a meltable conductor 3; first and second external connection terminals 7, 8 connected to both ends of the meltable conductor 3; and a housing 6 having a lower case 4 and an upper case 5, wherein one end of the first external connection terminal 7 and one end of the second external connection terminal 8 are led out from the housing 6, and the housing is provided with a first opening 24 formed facing a front surface of the first external connection terminal 7 and a second opening 25 formed facing a front surface of the second external connection terminal 8.

Abstract: A gas circuit breaker includes: a pair of electrodes provided so as to be able to come in contact with and separate from each other; and an insulating material that is placed so as to generate a decomposition gas in response to a direct or indirect action from an arc occurring between the pair of electrodes when a current is broken, wherein the decomposition gas generated from the insulating material when the current is broken is configured to be utilized for extinguishing the arc, and wherein an ablative material that does not include hydrogen atoms but has a carbon-oxygen bond in a main chain or ring part is used as the insulating material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a switch disconnector comprising a housing portion, in which several pairs of blade receiving contacts assigned to each other or the like are arranged, which can be bridged by means of fuses, possibly comprising shock protection covers at least partially covering contact blades, and comprising a lid for receiving said fuses, which is provided in a manner hinged to the housing portion, wherein several receiving means in the form of slots, grooves or the like are formed at the inside of the lid, wherein one bearing cage is provided per fuse, and each bearing cage comprises a cage portion for inserting a fuse, wherein the cage portion is fit to the shape of the fuse to be inserted, and each bearing cage is provided with fasteners, which can be inserted in and snapped into predetermined receiving means for fastening the bearing cage to the lid respectively.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fuse structure, which includes a non-conductive tube connecting both ends with two respective metal caps and an inner resistance filament being inside. The improvement is an aperture being formed on the non-conductive tube for exhausting inner heated air when welding second cap. Hence, tin for welding the cap with the tube can prevent from being extruded outside that provides fuse to be flawless and utility.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuse apparatus with explosion-proof structure, which includes a connector connecting with two conductive legs, a fuse mounted on the connector, and a cap covering the connector. The characteristic is to provide a horizontal hole and a vertical aperture in the connector that becomes a T-shape vent passageway at upside-down position. And the connector is provided with two sets of side protrusions, which form a gap between the opening of the horizontal hole of the connector and the cap when the cap covers the connector to release high pressure in the cap when the fuse is accidentally broken. The improved fuse apparatus is safer, since the explosion is prevented.

Abstract: A fuse housing assembly is disclosed that includes a rate release plug that prevents the emission of large quantities of dielectric oil from a transformer tank upon removal of a fuse holder from a bayonet-type fuse holder. The rate release plug allows pressurized gas inside the tank to escape while at the same time, impeding the flow of dielectric oil out of the tank.

Abstract: A pair of electrodes are provided through a base. A cap and the base constitute a chamber, and are connected to each other by fitting projections provided on the base, into locking grooves formed in the cap. A fuse element is connected to upper portions of the electrodes, located in the chamber, by appropriate means such as soldering or welding. The base is in the form of a rectangle having long sides and short sides. A pair of semi-elliptic air pass holes are formed in substantially central portions of the base along the respective long sides, and opposed to each other.

Abstract: There is provided a fast acting subminiature cylindrical fuse having a cylindrical cover substantially locked onto a cylindrical base. The locking mechanism for the cover comprises a plurality of grooves and a plurality of corresponding projections on the internal surface of the cover and the external surface of the fuse base. The lock projections have a relatively straight diverging upper surface and a rounded bottom locking surface. The fuse base has a spacing ridge on the bottom thereof that spaces the fuse bottom surface above a circuit board surface. The fuse also has a plurality of pressure relieving passageways extending from inside the fuse to the outside of the fuse.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric fuse with a fuse element located in a housing which encases a fuse element chamber. The fuse element melts and thus cuts out the fuse under an overcharge, whereby the temperature and pressure in the interior of the casing will abruptly rise. The housing is provided with a pressure relief means through which at least part of the gas volume can be let off to the outside to prevent the housing from destruction if high internal pressure peak values occur on cutting out the fuse.

Abstract: An electrical fault protective device for providing power interruption in electrical circuits rated up to 10,000 amperes and above. The device comprises a single- or double-vented expulsion-type fuse, connected at one vented end to a hollow bus and at the other end to a conductive expansion chamber for a double-vent fuse or an electrical contact for a single-vent fuse. A spring located in the hollow bus is attached to the fusible link for pulling the fusible link from the fuse tube to rapidly extinguish the arc when the fuse blows. The fuse tube is also retractable into the hollow bus when the fuse blows to provide a visual indication of fuse operation and to relieve the dielectric stress on the fuse tube.

Abstract: An electrically conductive expulsion fuse manifold and bus for connecting and mounting a plurality of fuses which upon operation expel gases into the manifold is shown and described. The expulsion fuses are attached to the manifold by means of clamps, flanges, and/or threaded connections. Each expulsion fuse includes an expendable cap which may be blown off into the manifold under high magnitude capacitor discharge currents and/or fault currents for safe double-vented fuse operation. The manifold may also be non-conductive where electrical isolation is required and where a separate electrically conductive bus is employed.

Abstract: This invention provides a supersonic expulsion fuse for interrupting fault currents in high voltage alternating current networks. It creates an arc interruption region with a long length of supersonic turbulent flow and little or no subsonic plasma. This increases the arc interrupting capability against both thermal and dielectric arc reignitions. Therefore, the transient recovery voltage the network applies across the interrupted arc after current-zero may be increased in both frequency and peak values, relative to present-art expulsion fuses. It may be applied on power distribution systems as a power fuse in enclosures or overhead where the said system transient recovery voltages exceed the capabilities of conventional distribution cutouts.

Abstract: An ejecta trap for a drop out expulsion fuse of the type comprising an elongate insulating body with a conductive head fitting and tail socket. The tail socket is pivotally connected to the tail fitting and the head and tail fittings are adapted to electrically and mechanically engage respective head and tail terminals. A fuse means is connected within the body between the head and tail fittings. The ejecta trap is pivotally mounted on the tail terminal such that it may be swung between an in-use position immediately below the tail fitting where it collects ejected fuse means material and another position.

Abstract: A fuse comprises a housing formed of synthetic resin, and the housing including a peripheral wall having an upper opening, a fuse-element, which is melted by an excessive electrical current flowing therethrough, fixedly disposed in the housing and at least an air passage communicating between the inside and outside of the housing and formed on the wall portion of the housing. A heated air in the housing heated by heat generated in the fuse-element is discharged from the air passage, thereby it is prevented that the inside of the housing becomes high-temperature.

Abstract: A fuse link for an expulsion fuse used in connection with high voltage electrical transmission lines. The fuse link has an outer assembly in the form of a tube, a fuse element housed within the outer assembly, electrical connecting means serially connected to the fuse element to provide an electrical current path therethrough and, an arc-quenching medium, such as boric acid, contained within the outer assembly and in close proximity to the fuse element. In use, when the fuse element fuses due to excessive current a portion of the electrical connecting means is expelled from the outer assembly and the arc-quenching medium acts to inhibit a discharge of sparks due to arcing. The fuse element may comprise one or more fuse wires capable of withstanding a tensile force applied to it prior to fusing. Inhibiting any discharge of sparks is important to prevent accidental starting of fires particularly in forested areas.

Abstract: An oil expulsion fuse having a pair of contacts solidly secured to the ends of a high strength outer insulating tube. A resilient non-conducting inner sleeve is mounted within the bore of the insulating tube and contact assembly, the sleeve and tube being closely fit to each other. A fusible link is assembled in the bore of the resilient sleeve secured to the contact ends by fuse clamps. The fusible link includes a support tube also composed of a resilient non-conductive material which together with the inner sleeve absorb and trap high energy fuse link particles during a fusing operation.

Abstract: An under oil expulsion fuse cartridge assembly includes a tubular housing of non-electrical conductive material, an electrically conductive contact removably threadedly mounted on each end of the housing, and a replaceable fuse assembly removably received within the tubular housing. One of the end contacts incorporates a pressure chamber providing a flushing and cleaning operation during the interruption process. The fuse assembly includes a fuse liner tube in a fuse link therein in the form of a flat ribbon element electrially connected to each of the end contacts. One end of the fuse link is mounted on a thin disc which includes a plurality of projecting lands that prevent direct engagement of the fuse link with the end contact to avoid breaking the fuse link. The fuse link also includes a plurality of holes formed therethrough covered by a eutectic material having a desired melting temperature so that current interruption occurs at a predetermined operating temperature.

Abstract: Protected liquid-filled electrical inductive apparatus having a dry well fuse assembly which includes a dry well fuse holder sealingly disposed through an opening in the associated metallic casing, separate from the electrical bushings, and a removable fuse portion. Ionization of the air within the fuse holder is prevented by a resilient plug mounted on the removable fuse portion which, when the fuse portion is assembled within the dry well fuse holder, is immediately adjacent to the electrical terminal which is closest to the grounded casing. The resilient plug member provides an air seal adjacent to the terminal without providing a pressure seal within the receptacle.

Abstract: An oil expulsion fuse has multiple rupture-resistant fuse wire arc bores for providing fault current protection in high voltage distribution circuits in the 25-35 KV range. In preferred forms, the fuse has a Teflon core defining three discrete, small diameter cylindrical bores, each containing a respective fuse wire, whereby sufficient deionizing gas flow is generated upon fusing of the wires to effectively extinguish arcs formed in the bores, even in the face of high recovery voltage rates associated with distribution voltages above 15 KV. The multiple bores communicate with common chambers at respective ends thereof which are vented to allow connective oil flow through the fuse during normal operation.

Abstract: Two housing halves are joined to form a housing surrounding an electrical fuse, a sealing gasket being provided at the joint between the housing halves. A corona shield is embedded wholly within each housing half, each shield terminating on its respective side of the gasket so that the ends thereof are closely adjacent but yet spaced apart with a portion of the gasket therebetween. Each shield is electrically connected to a respective end of the fuse. The gasket has an inner cylindrical wall provided with spaced ribs. The cylindrical wall closely engages the fuse within the housing and small elongated openings are defined along both sides of each rib. A vent assembly in one of the housing halves selectively opens and closes the housing interior to the ambient dependent upon the internal housing pressure.