Protection for Fuel Gauge IC's - Infographic
Charging forward with confidence
Drawing of a battery with energy levels separated by different colors, where each color has text describing what Littelfuse offers for Protection of Fule Gauge ICs.
Protech ICs
Green:
(shield icon, engine temperature and battery gauge line drawings)
Overcurrent & overtemperature protection for battery management ICs & fuel gauges
PPTC
- Resets
- Smaller footprint
Secondary overtemperature and overcurrent protection
Battery mini-breaker
- Longer battery life
- sensitive thermal protection
ESD protection of I2C input
TVS diode array
- Small size
- low capacitance
Monitor temperature
Purplish Red
(temperature icon and gauge drawing)
Ambient temperature measurement and temperature compensation for safe charge-discharge battery cycle
NTC
- Safe operation
- smaller footprint
Enabling Technologies
(button line drawing, icons for battery, thermometer, thermostat)
Blue
Resettable fuse or polymeric positive temperature coefficient device (PPTC)
- Overcurrent & overtemperature protection
Transient-voltage-suppression (TVS) diode array
- EDS protection of I2C input
Negative Temperature Coefficient (NTC) thermistor
- Ensures safer charge/discharge
Battery Mini-breaker
- Secondary protection
Applications
(cube line drawing)
Orange
Icons for:
- notebooks
- wireless speakers
- wearable devices
- augmented reality
- power tools
- point-of-sale equipment
- drone
- medical equipment
- e-Bike
- two-way radios
Solution
Green
LIttelfuse provides solutions to protect & monitor electronic charging designs
6 battery icons that show the charge level decreasing from left to right