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NTC thermistor elements

  • US 6,008,717 A
  • Filed: 01/07/1998
  • Issued: 12/28/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An NTC thermistor element comprising:

  • a thermistor body made of an NTC thermistor material;

    a pair of outer electrodes on outer surface of said thermistor; and

    a plurality of inner electrodes in layers inside said thermistor body, each of said inner electrodes being connected to either of said outer electrodes, at least one of said layers containing a longer first inner electrode and a shorter second inner electrode which are disposed opposite each other with a gap therebetween and connected to different ones of said outer electrodes, said layers being mutually separated by a distance smaller than said gap, at least a portion of said longer first inner electrode overlapping another of said inner electrodes in a direction perpendicular to said layers with a thermistor layer therebetween, said another inner electrode being connected to the different one of said pair of outer electrodes from the one to which said first inner electrode is connected.

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