Electrostatic protection device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9497837-B2
Application number	US-201214351682-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2012
Priority date	Oct 14, 2011
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

Abstract

An electrostatic protection device with an improved durability with repeated use and an excellent discharging property is provided. The electrostatic protection device 100 comprising an insulating laminate 11 , a pair of discharge electrodes 12 and 13 inside the insulating laminate 11 and a discharge triggered part 14 disposed between these discharge electrodes and at the periphery of the end portion of the discharge electrode is configured by disposing glass-containing insulating layers 15 and 16 on the surfaces of the discharge electrodes. The flow of conductive inorganic materials in the discharge electrodes towards the discharge triggered part caused by the discharging process can be inhibited by arranging the insulating layer containing glass on the surfaces of the discharge electrodes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrostatic protection device, wherein, the electrostatic protection device comprises a pair of discharge electrodes and a discharge triggered part inside an insulating laminate, and an insulating layer containing glass is disposed on at least part of the discharge electrodes, wherein,
the discharge triggered part is disposed between the pair of discharge electrodes and at the periphery of the end portions of the discharge electrodes, wherein,
at least the connection portion between the pair of the discharge electrodes and the discharge triggered part contain the insulating layer, and wherein,
the insulating layer has a thickness of 0.01 μm or more and 10 μm or less.

2. The electrostatic protection device of claim 1 , wherein,
the surfaces of both of the pair of discharge electrodes contain the insulating layer containing glass.

3. The electrostatic protection device of claim 1 , wherein,
the glass contains at least one selected from the group consisting of SiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , B 2 O 3 , MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, Li 2 O, Na 2 O, K 2 O, ZnO and ZrO 2 as its component.

4. The electrostatic protection device of claim 1 , wherein,
the glass contains at least one selected from the group consisting of silicate glass, aluminosilicate glass, borate glass, borosilicate glass, sodalime glass, phosphate glass, plumbate glass and other inorganic acid salt glasses.

5. The electrostatic protection device of claim 1 , wherein,
the pair of discharge electrodes have a gap interval (ΔG) of 1 to 50 μm.

6. The electrostatic protection device of claim 5 , wherein,
ΔG is 5 to 40 μm.

7. The electrostatic protection device of claim 5 , wherein,
ΔG is 8 to 30 μm.

8. The electrostatic protection device of claim 1 , wherein,
the discharge triggered part is a composite comprising insulating inorganic materials and conductive inorganic materials dispersed therein.

9. The electrostatic protection device of claim 8 , wherein,
the discharge triggered part contains holes or gaps.

10. The electrostatic protection device of claim 8 , wherein,
the conductive inorganic materials are present in a ratio of 20-90 vol % of the discharge triggered part.

11. The electrostatic protection device of claim 1 , wherein,
the discharge triggered part contains holes or gaps.

12. The electrostatic protection device of claim 1 , wherein,
the discharge triggered part has a thickness of 10 nm to 60 μm.

13. The electrostatic protection device of claim 1 , wherein,
the discharge triggered part has a thickness of 100 nm to 50 μm.

14. An electrostatic protection device, wherein,
the electrostatic protection device comprises a pair of discharge electrodes and a discharge triggered part inside an insulating laminate, and an insulating layer containing glass is disposed on at least part of the discharge electrodes, wherein,
the discharge triggered part is disposed between the pair of discharge electrodes and at the periphery of the end portions of the discharge electrodes, wherein,
at least the connection portion between the pair of the discharge electrodes and the discharge triggered part contain the insulating layer, and wherein,
the discharge triggered part has a thickness of 10 nm to 60 μm.

15. The electrostatic protection device of claim 14 , wherein,
the discharge triggered part has a thickness of 100 nm to 50 μm.

Assignees

• Fujimori Takahiro
• Suzuki Shingo
• Asakura Kensaku
• Tdk Corp

Inventors

• Fujimori Takahiro
• Suzuki Shingo
• Asakura Kensaku

Classifications

• H01T1/24

  Selection of materials for electrodes (H01T1/22 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H05K2201/0209

  Inorganic, non-metallic particles · CPC title

• H05K2201/0175

  Inorganic, non-metallic layer, e.g. resist or dielectric for printed capacitor · CPC title

• H05F3/04 Primary

  by means of spark gaps or other discharge devices (devices providing for corona discharge per se H01T19/00) · CPC title

• H05K2201/09272

  Layout details of angles or corners · CPC title