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In a thermal protector 15 included, for example, in a hair dryer, a partition wall 28 (28-1, 28-2) , which encloses an arrangement portion of a movable contact 23 and a fixed contact 27 from three sides, is adjacent to the contacts in a range that does not inhibit the opening/closing operations of the contacts, and is formed to be higher than the fixed contact 27 and a gap g between the contacts and to have a height that does not exceed the height of one end 22-2 of a movable plate 22 when the contacts are released, is arranged. This configuration solves a problem that the movable plate 22 is deformed by a phenomenon that the warpage of a bimetal 26 is inverted from a convex state in an upward direction shown in (b) to a concave state in the upward direction shown in (c) due to a thermal response in hot air which exceeds a set temperature, and an arc, which occurs between the contacts when an electric current is interrupted to make the movable contact 23 draw apart rapidly from the fixed contact 27, comes out of the contacts by being carried away and is spattered to a peripheral conductive member, and the peripheral conductive member is extraordinarily heated, melted, and damaged by the arc at a high wind velocity that exceeds a limit in case of a conventional thermal protector. <IMAGE>
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