US Patent Issued to TDK Electronics on Sept. 23 for "PTC heater with reduced switch-on current" (Czech, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,357, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TDK Electronics AG (Munich).

"PTC heater with reduced switch-on current" was invented by Bernhard Steinberger (Graz, Austria), Jiri Brezina (Bludov, Czech Republic), Michal Geprt (Bludov, Czech Republic) and Zdenek Sita (Lanskroun, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater is disclosed. In an embodiment the PTC heater includes a main body having a length L, a width B, and a height H made of a PTC material and a first electrode and a second electrode made of an electrically conductive material, wherein the following is true for L, B, and H: L...