EE World Online

Resettable contactor clears 16 kA faults at 1 kV without external electronics

The FaultBreak contactor from Sensata Technologies is a high-voltage switching and protection device for electric vehicle power systems that combines contactor and fuse functions in a single component ...
Electronic Design

E-Fuses, Ideal Diodes Overcome Shortfalls of Traditional Supply-Protection Devices

Among passive electronic components, the fuse and diode are well known, well understood, widely used, and essential to many circuits and systems. Still, each has inherent shortcomings that make them ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Adds New eFuse IC, an Electronic Fuse for Repeated Use That Offers Adjustable Overvoltage Protection and FLAG Signal Output Function

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has added a new eFuse IC, “TCKE712BNL,” to its line-up of eFuse ICs for repeated use that support functions to ...
EDN

Protection algorithms provide a new way of fault mitigation

After those so very intelligent Body Control Module (BCM) engineers effectively eliminated most of the electromechanical relays in the modern day BCM, the next task given them was the elimination of ...