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Article: Preventing portable disasters: resettable functionality, a small form factor, and low resistance make PPTC devices an effective circuit protection solution for such battery-powered equipment as notebooks, cellular phones, digital cameras, and camcorders. (In focus: batteries).
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- Product Design & Development
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Customer dissatisfaction and loss of brand loyalty often result from a single bad experience. This is particularly true in the case of sophisticated electronic equipment.
Preventing equipment failure not only improves user satisfaction but also reduces warranty returns of notebook computers, cellular phones, rechargeable batteries, and power supplies. Resettable fuses are quickly becoming the standard method for preventing devastating overcurrent and overtemperature damage to this type of portable equipment.
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