Bourns Announces Circuit Protection Products for Industrial, Test, Security and Process...

Bourns Announces Circuit Protection Products for Industrial, Test, Security
and Process Control Equipment

Transient Blocking Unit Devices Meet Speed and Resettability Requirements for
Reliable Power Surge Protection

RIVERSIDE, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Bourns, Inc., a leading
manufacturer and supplier of electronic components, today announced that the
company has expanded its line of circuit protection solutions for industrial
applications to include Transient Blocking Unit (TBU) devices. The TBU
devices are designed for a broad range of applications including models for
industrial, test, security and process control equipment. Designated Bourns
C650, C850 and P40 product families, the TBU models feature extremely low
energy let-thru and are resettable to provide secure protection for a varying
range of power surge threats from lightning and power cross to technician
error and factory floor mishaps. Bourns' TBU devices are compatible with very
high speed data buses enabling them to meet speed and bandwidth requirements
for reliable power surge protection. The TBU devices also have a very small
footprint and meet extremely high equipment uptime requirements in
space-constrained applications such as avionics, defense and mass transit
applications.

Bourns' TBU products offer key features required for circuit protection in
industrial, test, security and process control equipment applications
including speed, bandwidth and resettability. The devices are compatible with
faster next-generation chipsets and are resettable within microseconds to
provide immediate recovery in critical operations. The TBU devices meet
application needs for linearity and high frequency applications to match the
demands of high data rate equipment designs.

"Highly dependable circuit protection has been a mainstay for
telecommunications applications and it is quickly becoming as equally
important for a broad range of industrial and process control applications,"
said Dr. Erik Meijer, vice president of circuit protection at Bourns.
"Application trends are migrating toward more sensitive electronics with
increased demand for improved equipment and process uptime and faster data
rates are leading more designers to rethink their circuit protection
solutions. Bourns' TBU devices were designed to meet diverse OEM application
requirements for reliable circuit protection under a wide variety of power
surge conditions."

As the only new approach to electronics circuit protection in over a decade,
Bourns' new TBU devices are optimized for 24/7 deployments where circuit
protection needs to be immediate to maintain optimal operating functions.
Bourns' TBU technology is designed to immediately block a transient through a
current disconnecting mechanism, offering superior protection. TBU technology
completely eliminates latency in the circuit protection design, resulting in a
fundamentally new and advanced surge protection for sensitive non-telecom
applications.

Pricing and Availability
Bourns' C650, C850 and P40 TBU protectors are available now. As a pricing
reference, the C Series products are priced at $0.60 each in 5,000 piece
quantities.

About Bourns
Bourns, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of automotive sensors,
circuit protection solutions, magnetic products, microelectronic modules,
precision potentiometers, panel controls and encoders and resistive products.
Headquartered in Riverside, California, 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. Additional company and product
information is available at the company's website at www.bourns.com.

TBU(TM), Bourns(R) and the Bourns logo are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Bourns, Inc. and may be used publicly only with the permission of Bourns
and require proper acknowledgement. Other listed names and brands are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Agency Contact:
Annette Keller
Keller Communication
(949) 640-4811
annettekeller@sbcglobal.net

Company Contact:
Mikelyn Bridges
Bourns, Inc.
(951) 781-5397
mike.bridges@bourns.com

SOURCE Bourns, Inc.

Agency, Annette Keller of Keller Communication, +1-949-640-4811,
annettekeller@sbcglobal.net, for Bourns, Inc.; or Company, Mikelyn Bridges of
Bourns, Inc., +1-951-781-5397, mike.bridges@bourns.com