Planar voltage protection assembly

• Main Authors: DALMIA, SIDHARTH, HARRISON, WILLIAM, DAS, JAYDIP
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.10.2013
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES; GENERATION; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; RELAYS; SELECTORS; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION

A voltage protection assembly (100) comprises a planar substrate (102) having a thickness dimension (300) that vertically extends from an upper surface (304) of the substrate to an opposite lower surface (302) of the substrate. The substrate includes one or more conductive traces (104). The voltage protection assembly comprises a conductive input terminal (106) conductively coupled with at least one of the conductive traces, and a conductive output terminal (108) conductively coupled with at least one of the conductive traces. The output terminal, an inductive element (120), a capacitive element (118, 600), and the input terminal are connected in series by the conductive traces to form a voltage protection circuit (110, 112) that filters one or more frequencies of a data signal transmitted through the voltage protection circuit. At least one of the capacitive element (118, 600) and the inductive element (120) are entirely disposed within the thickness dimension (300) of the substrate.