US 81575997 A description a transient voltage surge suppressor circuit 10 hereinafter referred to interchangeably as suppressor or tvss circuit of the present invention is shown in fig1 phase and neutral terminals of an external electrical power source not shown in the figure are connectable as shown to an input terminal 12 of the suppressor circuit 10 a conventional surge suppressor device 16 functions to clamp the line voltage to a predetermined voltage value upon the occurrence of a power surge and is coupled to the input terminal via stripline circuit 14 surge suppressor device 16 may employ for example solid state surge suppressors such as movs as shown in fig2 gas discharge tubes 23 as shown in fig2 b etc stripline circuit 14 is utilized herein to electrically connect the surge suppressor device 16 to input terminal 12 the stripline circuit controls the characteristic impedance z o i e the combined inductance capacitance and resistance of the conductive path although stripline techniques are traditionally associated with high frequency low power applications such as rf and radar the present invention has applied stripline techniques to low frequency high power applications e g 120 v 60 hz single and multiple phase ac power tvss devices a more detailed view of the structure of surge suppressor circuit 10 is shown in fig2 an electrical power source 22 is shown therein identifying.