Overvoltage protector using varistor initiated arc

Patent · Wed Feb 13 23:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:6775469

Brainard, J P

Coaxial conductors are protected against electrical overvoltage by at least one element of non-electroded varistor material that adjoins each other varistor element and conductor with which it contacts. With this construction, overvoltage current initiated through the varistor material arcs at the point contacts between varistor elements and, as the current increases, the arcs increase until they become a continuous arc between conductors, bypassing the varistor material.

• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): None
• OSTI ID: 6775469
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
420800* -- Engineering-- Electronic Circuits & Devices-- (-1989)
CABLES
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ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT PROTECTION DEVICES
OVERVOLTAGE
PERFORMANCE
RESISTORS
SAFETY
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