ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,685, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dongguan Littelfuse Electronics Co. Ltd. (Dongguan, China).
"High soldering strength terminal for surge protection device" was invented by Dongjian Song (Dongguan, China), Ganyang Shen (Dongguan, China) and Yanjing Xiao (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surge protection device includes a metal terminal and a spring. The metal terminal is located between two metal oxide varistors, where the metal terminal extends beyond the metal oxide varistors. The spring has a flat surface that is connected to the metal terminal using a soldering paste. The flat surface has a bend on one end ...