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Single position flat mount fuse holder

  • US 5,113,168 A
  • Filed: 06/26/1991
  • Issued: 05/12/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A single position fuse holder for flat mounting on an edge surface of a printed circuit board, said fuse holder comprising a fuse holder body portion made of an electrically insulative material and formed of two spaced apart, opposed parallel front side wall and rear side wall;

  • two spaced apart, opposed parallel side edge walls, and a bottom closure wall thereby defining a compartment in said fuse holder body for receiving a fuse assembly having a fuse element with spaced contact terminals and an alarm spring normally attached to the fuse element;

    a pair of generally U-shaped members in said fuse holder compartment, one at one end of said compartment and the other near the other end thereof, a metallic alarm contact plate in said fuse holder compartment abutting the inside surface of the side edge wall at said other end of said compartment, each of said generally U-shaped members having a laterally extending arm portion which protrudes through corresponding rectangular apertures in said front side wall forming respective side contact pins and twisted from about 45 to about 90 degrees to lock said pins in position, and wherein said metallic alarm contact plate protrudes through a corresponding rectangular aperture in said bottom wall closure forming an alarm contact pin which is twisted from about 45 to about 90 degrees to lock said pin in position, and thereafter bent approximately 90 degrees relative to said bottom closure wall.

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