ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,336, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).
"Fuse element, fuse device and protection device" was invented by Yoshihiro Yoneda (Shimotsuke, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuse element (10) includes a low-melting-point metal layer (11), a high-melting-point metal layer (12) laminated on at least one surface of the low-melting-point metal layer (11), and an intermediate layer (13) disposed between the low-melting-point metal layer (11) and the high-melting-point metal layer (12), in which the high-melting-point metal layer (12) and the intermediate layer (13) are layers formed of a metal which is mel...