Abstract: A fuse including a fuse housing having first and second electrical terminals, a movable partition made from an electrically conductive material movably disposed within the fuse housing, a fusible structure connected between the first electrical terminal and the movable partition, a conductor connected between the movable partition and the second electrical terminal, a biasing element acting on the movable partition to maintain the fusible structure in tension and for moving the movable partition upon melting of the fusible structure and an indicator connected between the movable partition and the second electrical terminal.

Abstract: A presser spring (43) is separately formed with a fuse body (33), and therefore may be formed of a material having a high spring characteristic. The presser spring (43) is attached to a portion of peripheral wall portions (41b) to which a back plate portion (41a) is opposed, so that a mating tab terminal (39), inserted in an engagement space (45), is pressed against the back plate portion (41a) by the presser spring (43).

Abstract: A fusible link includes a housing which is made of insulating resin, the housing has an opening through which a fuse element is inserted into the housing, a fuse element having a pair of connecting terminal sections and a fusible body connected between the connecting terminal sections, and a lid of insulating resin which covers the opening of the housing while engaging with the housing. In the fusible link, the lid has resilient protruded pieces which are extended downwardly from the inner surface of the lid, and pressed against the fuse element so that the fused ends of the fuse element are away from each other when the fusible body is fused, thereby to positively prevent the occurrence of secondary short-circuiting of the fused ends.

Abstract: A secondary short preventing mechanism of a fuse is constituted by a pair of female terminal members in which male terminal receiving portions are formed at their longitudinally one ends respectively so that the male terminal receiving portions are to be engaged with and electrically connected to male terminal portions, and a fuse fusing portion is formed between their longitudinally other ends; and a housing for housing the female terminal portions, the housing having a vertically extending insulation partition for horizontally separating the male terminal receiving portions from each other in a loosely fitted state. Each of the male terminal receiving portions has raised pressing contact portions which oppose to each other at different levels, that is, at upper and lower positions in their longitudinal directions, the upper pressing contact portion being directed toward the insulation partition, and at least one of the pressing contact portions having elasticity.

Abstract: An electrical fuse for mounting on a circuit board. The fuse has a housing member with terminal members engaging a fuse element intended to interrupt an external electrical circuit coupled with the terminal members upon an occurence of a fault condition in the electrical circuit. The housing member has internal arc-suppressant structure supporting and deflecting the fuse element to shield the terminal members from arcs occurring upon a failure of the fuse element in response to the fault condition.

Abstract: To provide a novel cartridge fuse which can prevent the melted fuse member ends from being shorted together after the fuse member has been blown out and to firmly hold terminal members connected by a fuse member within a housing, the cartridge fuse comprises a fuse housing formed with an insulating partition extending therewithin to some extent to form a pair of terminal compartments; a pair of opposing terminal members each formed with a stay portion extending beyond the insulating partition and a contact portion housed within the terminal compartment, a fuse member connected to the stay portions of the opposing terminal members; and elastic members for applying a tension to fuse member in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A cartridge fuse has a pair of compressed, resilient plugs in opposed ends of a passageway passing through the fuse housing. The compressed material of the plugs engages and holds the fuse filament in slight tension along the length of the passageway and provide unexpectedly superior arc-quenching qualities to prevent explosion of the fuse housing. The ends of the fuse filament can be engaged through the centers of the plugs axially to align the fuse filament in the housing or the fuse filament ends can be engaged between the plugs and the interior of the housing wall to align the fuse filament under tension diagonally in the housing.

Abstract: An improved cartridge fuse has resilient plugs at opposite ends of the fuse housing through which extend a centered fuse filament held in tension by the defining walls of a plug passage hugging the fuse filament to maintain such tension. The fuse filament is placed in the plug passages by means of a needle which is passed through the fuse housing and the plugs therein to create a path for the fuse filament which, when the needle is pulled from the housing, leaves the fuse filament in a tensed centered condition in the fuse housing.

Abstract: An electrical connection device comprises a body portion provided with female terminal elements and matching male terminal elements connected, respectively, to the corresponding female terminal elements. One of the male terminal elements is connected to the corresponding female terminal element by a fusible element located inside the body portion. In a variation, first and second body portions are provided with female and male terminal elements, respectively, and the corresponding terminal elements are connected together by the conductive cores of a flexible cord, the fusible element being located inside the second body portion.