Protecting an electronic circuit from damage due to excessive current or heat is the primary function of many circuit protection technologies. In the past, this protection took the form of a fuse or ...

You can use several circuit protection schemes in power supplies to help guard against fault conditions and the resultant overtemperature damage, including thermal fuses, current fuses, and circuit ...

0402 Package Offers Smallest SMD PPTC Device on the Market CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Littelfuse, Inc., the global leader in circuit protection, today announced its new resettable PPTC (Polymer ...

Overcurrent protection is one of the key elements in ensuring reliability in ADSL equipment designs. Traditionally, designers have used resettable polymetric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) ...

Although a decentralized approach to harness protection that utilizes PPTC devices has been available since the 1990s, its adoption has been slow. In fact, as electrical and electronic content has ...

Since Apple's iPad 2 reportedly will not incorporate ALD/SLD polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) resistors, Taiwan's protective component makers will not be able to break into Apple's ...

Polymeric positive-temperature-coefficient (PPTC) devices have long been used on low-voltage devices and systems to protect circuits from overcurrent (short circuits) and overtemperatures. The ...