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Raychem Circuit Protection products are a part of your everyday life. From your cell phone battery to your car's steering wheel, they are helping to make your world safer and your electronics more reliable.

The Raychem Circuit Protection product history of innovation began in 1980 when the use of a polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) device as a variable resistor in circuit protection applications was first pioneered.

Raychem Circuit Protection Product Introduction Timeline

• PolySwitch division started as a venture group with three technologists 1981
  
• SLIC (Subscriber Line Interface Card) product launched at AT&T – first PPTC product  1984
  
• SMD PolySwitch product launched at Apple – first surface-mount PPTC product  1988
  
• Axial-leaded Ni metal hydride protector at Motorola – first axial-leaded PPTC product  1993
  
• miniSMD™ launched – industry’s smallest PPTC circuit protection device  1994
  
• SiBar™ Thyristor products for overvoltage protection launched  1997
  
• Raychem acquired by Tyco Electronics  1999
  
• nanoSMD™ launched - industry’s smallest PPTC circuit protection device 2000
  
• FT600 telecom fuses launched  2002
  
• MOV (Metal Oxide Varistors) launched  2003
  
• Slow blow and fast acting surface-mount fuses– highest current & smallest package  2004
  
• GDT (Gas Discharge Tubes) launched  2004
  
• PESD (Electrostatic Discharge Protection) devices– industry’s smallest form factor  2005
  
• Integrated protection solutions launched: PolyZen™ and 2Pro™ devices  2006

All the electrical equipment around you can become dangerous through faults such as overcurrent, overvoltage or overheating. Raychem Circuit Protection products help to protect electrical equipment from these types of faults.

To date, billions of Raychem Circuit Protection products have been used to help protect a wide range of electronic products in the computer, battery & portable electronics, consumer, automotive, industrial appliance & HVAC, and telecommunication markets.

There are many agencies that require circuit protection in their products. Raychem products are certified under UL, TUV and other application specific and regional agencies.

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