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Extended area thermal activation device

US6269830A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 28, 1998
Grant dateAug 7, 2001
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Expiry dateSep 28, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/1963
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for protection of a object subject to damage under thermally hazardous conditions having a triggerable safety appliance in which an elongated shaped memory alloy material having a first end and a second end is extended over an entire area to be protected of the object and the first end of the elongated shaped memory alloy material is operably linked to a trigger for activation of the triggerable safety appliance.

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