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Bourns is a leading manufacturer and supplier of automotive sensors, circuit protection solutions, magnetic products, microelectronic modules, trimming and precision potentiometers, panel controls, encoders, and resistive products. Headquartered in Riverside, CA, Bourns serves a broad range of markets, including telecommunications, computer, industrial, instrumentation, automotive, consumer, non-critical life support medical, audio, and various other market segments. Bourns products are manufactured according to ISO-9000 standards under Six Sigma quality programs. Bourns automotive products are manufactured in accordance with the TS16949 standard.


Reinventing Overvoltage Protection
On July 2, 2019 in All, Circuit Protection by Bourns
Bourns
High reliability is paramount in our always on, hyper-connected world. Application downtime or failure runs the gamut from frustrating to incredibly expensive. That is why overvoltage protection remains a consistent requirement.
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Tagged With: Bourns, GMOV, Metal Oxide Varistors, MOV, Overvoltage protection
Protect Embedded Interfaces with These Clamps and Crowbars
On August 13, 2018 in All, Circuit Protection, IoT by Bourns
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Protecting interface connections from overvoltage conditions and transient events is more important than ever with the proliferation of embedded electronics. Bourns clamp and crowbar protection is effective at protecting circuit interfaces in silicon and ceramic electronic components.
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Tagged With: Bourns, Breakdown voltages, Ceramic, Circuit protection, Clamps, Crowbars, Electronic component, Electrostatic discharge, ESD, Gas Discharge Tubes, GDT, Internet of Things, IoT devices, Metal Oxide Varistor, MOV, Overvoltage protection, Power ratings, Semiconductor, Silicon, Thyristor, TISP, Transient Voltage Suppressor, TVS
Advanced Ceramic Resistors Yield Higher Power System Density
On July 19, 2018 in All, Circuit Protection by Bourns
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Engineers today are asked to design applications with increasing power densities, which directly correspond to the demand for resistors. Leading manufacturers of these mighty passive components are answering current application requirements with new power resistor designs that can tolerate higher amounts of power in small and smaller form factors.
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Tagged With: AEC-Q200, Bourns, Ceramic resistors, Circuit protection, Harsh environments, High power density, Low inductance
No Sulfur Corrosion Here: Sulfur Resistant Film Resistors
On July 9, 2018 in All, Circuit Protection by Bourns
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High sulfur environments play havoc with everything from IT industry server farms and data/storage centers and telecommunication base stations to industrial control equipment and rubber, paper, and oil manufacturing plants. In standard film resistors, their internal silver (Ag) or silver palladium (AgPd) terminal is only protected by the epoxy passivation layer making the device very susceptible to sulfur-based gases. Realizing how sulfur gases can affect the reliability of its film resistors, Bourns developed a specialized Palladium (Pd) layer that removes the chance for corrosion and the formation of silver sulfide.
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Tagged With: Bourns, Harsh environment, Sulfur Corrosion, Sulfur resistant film resistors

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