Overvoltage protector using varistor initiated arc

Patent · 01 January 1982

OSTI ID:864447

Brainard, John P ^[1]

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1. Albuquerque, NM

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.

• Research Organization: AT & T CORP
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4365282
• OSTI ID: 864447
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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