founded in 1927, littelfuse, the worldwide leader in circuit protection, offers the industry’s broadest and deepest portfolio of circuit protection products and solutions. littelfuse devices protect products in virtually every market that uses electrical energy, from consumer electronics to automobiles to industrial equipment. in addition to its chicago, illinois, world headquarters, littelfuse has more than 40 sales, distribution, manufacturing and engineering facilities in the americas, europe and asia. littelfuse offers a comprehensive line of highly reliable technologies. products include fuses; gas discharge tubes (gdts); positive temperature coefficient devices (ptcs); protection relays; pulseguard® esd suppressors; sidactor® devices; tvs diode arrays (spa™ family of products); switching thyristors; tvs diodes and varistors. the company also offers a comprehensive line of highly reliable electromechanical and electronic switch and control devices for commercial and specialty vehi