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Granted Patent B2
US 11,482,393 · App. 17/286,426 · Granted Oct 25, 2022

Fuse and production method therefor

Inventors: Xiqing Chen (Jiangsu, CN); Xiangming Li (Jiangsu, CN); Xiaobing Shan (Jiangsu, CN); Yonglin Yang (Jiangsu, CN)
Assignee: AEM Components (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
H01H85/18H01H69/02H01H85/17
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Patent No.
US 11,482,393
App. No.
17/286,426
Granted
Oct 25, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fuse and a production method therefor. The fuse includes upper and lower insulating layers provided with terminal electrodes, and a fuse element between the upper and lower insulating layers. The fuse further includes a functional layer provided between the fuse element and the insulating layers. The functional layer includes a substrate and an arc extinguishing material uniformly or substantially uniformly distributed in the substrate; the arc extinguishing material includes a sealed cavity; the substrate includes low temperature co-fired ceramic powder, aerosol silicon oxide, silicon oxide, inert resin, phosphoric acid, and phosphate ester polyester; the content of the arc extinguishing material is 1-50 wt %. The fuse overcomes the shortcomings of phenomena such as deformation, bending, and defects occurring to a fuse element caused by the shrinkage mismatch of the fuse element with a buffer layer and an arc extinguishing layer in a sintering process.

Claims (29)

1. A fuse, comprising insulating layers and a fuse element,

wherein the insulating layers comprise an upper insulating layer and a lower insulating layer, and the fuse element is arranged between the upper insulating layer and the lower insulating layer; the insulating layers are provided with terminal electrodes electrically connected with the fuse element, wherein the fuse further comprises a functional layer provided between the fuse element and one of the insulating layers; the functional layer comprises substrate and arc extinguishing material uniformly or substantially uniformly distributed in the substrate, wherein the arc extinguishing material comprises a sealed cavity, and

wherein the substrate comprises low temperature co-fired ceramic powder, aerosol silicon oxide, silicon oxide, inert resin, phosphoric acid and phosphate ester polyester.

2. The fuse according to claim 1 , wherein the insulating layers further comprise an interlayer, and the fuse comprises a plurality of the fuse elements and a plurality of the functional layers, and the functional layer is arranged above and/or below each of the fuse element, and the interlayer is arranged between adjacent two of the fuse elements.

3. The fuse according to claim 1 , wherein the arc extinguishing material is hollow glass microsphere, glass body with a plurality of the sealed cavities, or ceramic body with a plurality of the sealed cavities.

4. The fuse according to claim 1 , wherein the sphere diameter D50 of the arc extinguishing material is 10-80 microns.

5. A production method for the fuse according to claim 1 , comprising the following steps:

S1, preparing glass-ceramic slurry with low temperature co-fired ceramic powder and binder;

S2, adding aerosol silicon oxide, silicon oxide, inert resin, phosphoric acid and phosphate ester polyester to the glass-ceramic slurry, and fully stirring and grinding to prepare a pre-slurry of functional layer;

S3, preparing functional layer slurry by adding arc extinguishing material to the pre-slurry of functional layer, wherein the arc extinguishing material is any one of hollow glass microspheres, glass powder mixed with foaming agent, or ceramic powder mixed with foaming agent;

S4, coating a layer of the glass-ceramic slurry to form a slurry layer of glass-ceramic, which is a lower insulating layer slurry;

S5, coating at least one layer of fuse element layer slurry, at least one layer of functional layer slurry and a layer of the glass-ceramic slurry on the lower insulating layer slurry, coating the functional layer slurry above and/or below the fuse element layer slurry, and coating the layer of the glass-ceramic slurry to be an uppermost layer as an upper insulating layer slurry, to form a green body of the fuse;

S6, placing the green body of the fuse in a glue discharging furnace to discharge rubber from the green body of the fuse;

S7, sintering the green body of the fuse;

S8, performing processes of chamfering, mounting terminal electrodes, sintering silver, and electroplating on the green body of the fuse.

6. The production method according to claim 5 , wherein, in Step S5, the at least one layer of functional layer slurry comprises a plurality of sublayers of functional layer slurry that are separated from each other and located in the same plane.

7. The production method according to claim 5 , further comprising a step of cutting the green body of the fuse after Step S5 and before Step S6.

8. The production method according to claim 6 , further comprising a step of cutting the green body of the fuse after Step S5 and before Step S6.

9. The production method according to claim 5 , wherein a solid content in the glass-ceramic slurry is 40-80 wt %.

10. The production method according to claim 6 , wherein a solid content in the glass-ceramic slurry is 40-80 wt %.

11. The production method according to claim 5 , wherein content of the glass-ceramic slurry in the pre-slurry of functional layer is 40-80 wt %.

12. The production method according to claim 6 , wherein content of the glass-ceramic slurry in the pre-slurry of functional layer is 40-80 wt %.

13. The production method according to claim 11 , wherein the total amount of aerosol silicon oxide and silicon oxide in the pre-slurry of functional layer is 0.1-20 wt %.

14. The production method according to claim 11 , wherein content of the low temperature co-fired ceramic powder in the pre-slurry of functional layer is 0-20 wt %.

15. The fuse according to claim 1 , wherein two of the functional layers are arranged above and below the fuse element, respectively.

16. The fuse according to claim 1 , wherein the functional layer comprises a plurality of sub-functional layers separated from each other in a same plane.

17. The fuse according to claim 1 , wherein content of the arc extinguishing material of the functional layer is 1-50 wt %.

18. The production method according to claim 5 , comprising, in Step S5, coating a plurality of layers of the functional layer slurry, and coating the slurry layer of glass-ceramic between two adjacent layers of the fuse element layer slurry.

19. The production method according to claim 5 , wherein content of the arc extinguishing material in Step S3 is 1-50 wt %.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 19, 2021
From: CHEN, XIQING; LI, XIANGMING; SHAN, XIAOBING; YANG, YONGLIN
To: AEM COMPONENTS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 055963/0100 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201811221620.2 · Oct 19, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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