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    A pin insulator is a device that isolates a wire from a physical support such as a pin (a wooden or metal dowel of about 3 cm diameter with screw threads)...
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    An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely. The atoms of the insulator have tightly bound electrons which cannot...
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  • up insulator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Insulator may refer to: Insulator (electricity), a substance that resists electricity Pin insulator, a...
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    Brazil. Hemingray was best known for producing telegraph and telephone pin insulators used on utility poles. To give an overview of the large variety of styles...
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  • the 19th century, the limited electrical strength of telegraph-style pin insulators limited the voltage to no more than 69,000 volts. Up to about 33 kV...
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  • items, including a "pin insulator for communication" manufactured in 1875 that is believed to be the oldest domestic Japanese insulator.[citation needed]...
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    buildings. Richard Wentzel, chapter in "Insulators: A History and Guide to North American Glass Pintype Insulators" by John & Carol McDougald (1990). John...
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    electric lamps (which could increase their radius of propagation), Pin insulator, and electric outlets in the factory. There is also a mention of electric...
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    by Louis A. Cauvet for affixing the inverted cup-shaped insulators securely on mounting pins by means of screw-like thread structure. in 1870, James Brookfield...
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    threaded shell, electrically isolated from a central electrode by a ceramic insulator. The central electrode, which may contain a resistor, is connected by...
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    defects. By contrast many metal-insulator interfaces contain significant levels of defects which can lead to Fermi level pinning, charging, or other phenomena...
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    Backstay (redirect from Backstay insulator)
    a result. Both effects are desirable as the wind increases. Backstay insulators, when used as a pair, are devices which allow for the electrical isolation...
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    The insulator covering one of the conductors is ribbed (parallel to wire) for the entire length of the cord, while the other conductor's insulator is smooth...
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    Hole (redirect from Pin hole)
    example, in the assembly of microcircuits, pinholes in the dielectric insulator layer coating the circuit can cause the circuit to fail. Therefore, "[t]o...
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    sink. Since the device case is one of the electrical connections, an insulator may be required to electrically isolate the component from the heatsink...
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    the plugs and sockets are inside plastic insulators; the plug's metal contact is inside a cylindrical insulator that looks like a socket, and the socket...
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  • different capabilities and modes. Color coding is only required for the insulators of Micro and Mini connectors: A connectors are white, B black, and AB...
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    this feature is a conical cut-back section of the tip, just behind the insulator that separates the inner from outer contact surfaces. A "lock-ring DC...
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  • (withdrawn) IEC 60120 Dimensions of ball and socket couplings of string insulator units IEC 60121 Recommendation for commercial annealed aluminium electrical...
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    connectors essentially consist of two classes of materials: conductors and insulators. Properties important to conductor materials are contact resistance, conductivity...
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    pressure to exclude foreign material from the connector pin area. The tail of the connector insulator body is trimmable to fit the cable outer diameter. Another...
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    p–n junction becomes depleted of charge carriers and thus behaves as an insulator. However, the width of the depletion region (called the depletion width)...
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    charge is placed on the left face of the insulator (for example using a metal "gate" electrode). In the insulator there are no charges so the electric field...
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    bevel on the barrel near the tip, while on types 4 and 5 the tip of the insulator ring has a larger diameter than the metal barrel. The design philosophy...
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    dielectric insulators. Silicon on insulator (SOI). Strained silicon in a process used by IBM known as Strained silicon directly on insulator (SSDOI). Multigate...
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    with 12 address pins, NMI pin and IRQ pin 6504 – CPU with 13 address pins and IRQ pin 6505 – CPU with 12 address pins, IRQ pin and RDY pin. 6507 – CPU with...
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    transmission line was attached to the cross-arms of each pole with glass insulators. It was originally manufactured from iron or steel, but developments in...
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    although its electron transport depends on the gate's insulator or quality of oxide if used as an insulator, deposited above the inversion layer. Bardeen's...
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    where excess minority carriers can quickly recombine. Most silicon-on-insulator devices are inherently latch-up-resistant. Latch-up is the low resistance...
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    quasi-Fermi levels for different energy bands, whereas in an out-of-equilibrium insulator or vacuum it may not be possible to give a quasi-equilibrium description...
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