SURFACE MOUNTABLE ELECTRICAL DEVICE COMPRISING A PTC ELEMENT - Patent 0922286

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EP 0 922 286 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	16.06.1999 Bulletin 1999/24

(21)	Application number: 97907561.0

(22)	Date of filing: 21.01.1997

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

H01C 1/ 14^{( . )}
H01C 7/ 02^{( . )}

H01C 1/ 142^{( . )}
H01H 85/ 041^{( . )}

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US1997/001719

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 1997/028543 (07.08.1997 Gazette 1997/34)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

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Priority:

22.01.1996 US 19960010320P
22.01.1996 US 19960010420P
03.05.1996 US 19960642597
03.05.1996 US 19960642655

(71)	Applicant: LITTELFUSE, INC.
	Des Plaines, IL 60016 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	McGUIRE, Katherine, M. Clarendon Hills, IL 60514 (US) WARD, Mike, A. Chicago, IL 30614 (US)

(74)	Representative: Lawrence, John Gordon, et al
	McNeight & Lawrence Regent House Heaton Lane Stockport, Cheshire SK4 1BS Stockport, Cheshire SK4 1BS (GB)

(54)	SURFACE MOUNTABLE ELECTRICAL DEVICE COMPRISING A PTC ELEMENT