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EP 0250958 B1 19910925 - MATERIAL FOR ELECTRICAL LOW-CURRENT CONTACTS

Title (en)

MATERIAL FOR ELECTRICAL LOW-CURRENT CONTACTS

Publication

EP 0250958 B1 19910925 (DE)

Application

EP 87108367 A 19870610

Priority

DE 3621779 A 19860628

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0250958A2] Gold-silver-palladium alloys are used as materials for electrical low-current contacts, in which alloys there is embedded an inter- metallic palladium-zinc compound in the form of fine particles.

IPC 1-7

H01H 1/02

IPC 8 full level

C22C 5/00 (2006.01); H01B 1/02 (2006.01); H01H 1/02 (2006.01); H01H 1/023 (2006.01); H01R 4/58 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H01H 1/023 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0250958 A2 19880107; EP 0250958 A3 19890906; EP 0250958 B1 19910925; AT E67894 T1 19911015; DE 3621779 A1 19880114; DE 3621779 C2 19880407; DE 3773274 D1 19911031; JP S6311632 A 19880119

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 87108367 A 19870610; AT 87108367 T 19870610; DE 3621779 A 19860628; DE 3773274 T 19870610; JP 15461187 A 19870623