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6385021 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit  
An ESD protection circuit ( 39 ) coupled to each of a plurality of I/O circuits ( 30, 32, 36 ) of an integrated circuit ( 31 ) is disclosed. The ESD protection circuit includes a MOSFET transistor...
6373673 Multi-functional energy conditioner  
The present invention relates to a multi-functional energy conditioner having architecture employed in conjunction with various dielectric and combinations of dielectric materials to provide one or...
6373668 Semiconductor device  
A semiconductor device of SOI structure with improved ESD resistance is provided. In an I/O protection circuit of a semiconductor device of SOI structure, each unit channel width resistance value...
6369999 Portable surge protector  
The present invention relates to a portable surge protector providing both power line and data line surge protection. The surge protector has a housing with a central opening, and an internal...
6369998 Electrostatic discharge protection clamp for nominal-voltage power supply or I/O with high-voltage reference  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection technique protects a semiconductor device against electrostatic discharge events. The semiconductor device has a pad for receiving a signal. The...
6369427 Integrated circuitry, interface circuit of an integrated circuit device, and cascode circuitry  
The present invention includes integrated circuitry, an interface circuit of an integrated circuit device, cascode circuitry, method of protecting an integrated circuit, method of operating...
6366469 Electrical component stacking system  
An electrical component assembly includes a first printed circuit board (PCB) having a plurality of first-PCB conductive paths communicating with the surface of the first PCB, the assembly also...
6366435 Multiple sources ESD protection for an epitaxy wafer substrate  
A multiple sources electrostatic discharge protection circuit. The protection circuit is applicable for being used in both N-type and P-type substrate of epitaxy wafer. Employing the concept of...
6362942 Input stage protection circuit for a receiver  
An extraneous voltage protection circuit and method transforms an overvoltage input signal or undervoltage input signal to a suitable voltage level for a protected circuit. An input voltage...
6359796 Transient control for converter power supplies  
An active transient-control circuit included in a power supply responds swiftly to changes occurring in the output-power voltage produced by a power converter to reduce transient changes in the...
6356427 Electrostatic discharge protection clamp for high-voltage power supply or I/O with high-voltage reference  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection technique protects a semiconductor device against electrostatic discharge events. The technique uses an ESD protection circuit that includes a two...
6353524 Input/output circuit having up-shifting circuitry for accommodating different voltage signals  
The invention comprises an input/output circuit of an integrated circuit chip that includes a pad, a protection circuit connected to the pad, and an up-shift circuit connected to the pad and the...
6351364 Electrostatic discharge protection circuit  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit. A first NMOS transistor has a drain terminal connected to an I/O pad and a gate terminal connected to a voltage source. A second NMOS transistor...
6351363 Multi-stage polydiode-based electrostatic discharge protection circuit  
A multi-stage polydiode-based electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided for use in an IC device to protect the internal circuit of the IC device against ESD. In use, the...
6351362 Protection circuit for an LCD controller IC  
A protection circuit for an LCD controller IC comprises normally-off transistors through which a large current may escape, a resistor for disturbing the movement of charge in gate electrodes of...
6347026 Input and power protection circuit implemented in a complementary metal oxide semiconductor process using salicides  
Fabricated using a complementary metal oxide semiconductor process including the use of salicides, an input and power protection circuit for use in an integrated circuit protects voltage and signal...
6344960 Electrostatic discharge protecting circuit for semiconductor device  
An electrostatic discharge protecting circuit for a semiconductor device is provided and includes a first circuit portion including an N-type MOS field effect transistor formed on a P-type silicon...
6342998 Data surge protection module  
A data surge protection module can be added to data and control networks not having such surge protection. The use of quick connect/disconnect connectors allows for the rapid installation and/or...
6338986 Electrostatic discharge protection device for semiconductor integrated circuit method for producing the same and electrostatic discharge protection circuit using the same  
An electrostatic discharge protection device according to the present invention is provided at an input or an output of a semiconductor integrated circuit for protecting an internal circuit of the...
6337787 Gate-voltage controlled electrostatic discharge protection circuit  
A gate-voltage controlled ESD protection circuit is provided, which is designed to couple between an input port and an IC device having an inverter coupled to the internal circuit of the IC device...
RE37477 Integrated circuit protected against electrostatic discharges, with variable protection threshold  
To protect integrated circuits as efficiently as possible against electrostatic discharges, by putting a diode in avalanche mode without untimely triggering of this avalance mode by overvoltages of...
6331926 Paired multi-layered dielectric independent passive component architecture resulting in differential and common mode filtering with surge protection in one integrated package  
The present invention relates to a passive electronic component architecture employed in conjunction with various dielectric and combinations of dielectric materials to provide one or more...
6331719 Semiconductor device for reducing effects of noise on an internal circuit  
Semiconductor device according to the present invention includes package frame, bonding wire, pad, first internal power supply line, second internal power supply line, internal circuit, stabilize...
6320735 Electrostatic discharge protection clamp for high-voltage power supply or I/O with nominal-or high-voltage reference  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection technique protects a semiconductor device against electrostatic discharge events. The technique uses an ESD protection circuit that includes...
6317305 Electrostatic discharge protection in semiconductor devices with reduced parasitic capacitance  
A semiconductor device which protects external circuitry from electrostatic discharges. The device has is connected to one or more power supply lines and to external circuitry through a connection...
6304423 Input protection circuit for a semiconductor device  
A transient protection circuit (14) includes a resistor (22) having a first end adapted for connection to a first signal line (16) of a voltage supply (12) and a second opposite end connected to a...
6304127 Negative-voltage-trigger SCR with a stack-gate ESD transient switch  
A transient negative voltage pump circuit pumps the ESD voltage to a negative voltage. The negative voltage with the ESD voltage are used for early triggering of an SCR structure on the integrated...
6304126 Protection circuit that can be associated with a filter  
A structure for protection against electrostatic surges having two input terminals and two output terminals. The output terminals of the structure are connected to the inputs of a circuit to be...
6292344 Floating ground isolator for a communications cable locating system  
A floating ground isolator for shunting only selected damaging and/or annoying induced energy from a communications cable sheath to ground, thereby facilitating long range cable location using...
6292343 ASIC book to provide ESD protection on an integrated circuit  
An ASIC book comprising a gate-array format of ESD components is provided. A customized, optimized and tuned ESD network can be constructed from the ASIC book. Novel ESD circuitry having inter-rail...
6288885 Method and apparatus for electrostatic discharge protection for printed circuit boards  
An in its various embodiments is a method and apparatus for electrostatic discharge protection. In one aspect of the present invention, an integrated circuit device capable of providing...
6288884 MOS buffer immun to ESD damage  
A buffer is integrated with an ESD protection circuit onto a semiconductor substrate. The ESD protection circuit is triggered by means of a MOS-like device having a first spreading resistance...
6285535 Surge absorber  
An inductive lightening surge installed at input and output circuits or other locations of circuits of communication devices where a surge noise may be generated or a surge absorber for avoiding...
6282075 Surge suppressor with virtual ground  
A surge suppressor which provides overvoltage protection for AC power lines, coaxial transmission lines and communication lines using a virtual ground rather than a separate ground conductor.
6282074 Polymer fuse and filter apparatus  
The present invention relates to a polymer fuse apparatus that provides bypass fuse protection. A polymer bypass fuse is comprised of an electrical conductor wherein a portion of the conductor is...
6281735 Voltage clamping circuits for limiting the voltage range of an input signal  
An input signal voltage clamping circuit that provides asymmetrical, or unipolar, voltage clamping for an input signal terminal of a circuit. For a circuit having a positive power supply voltage...
6275367 Semiconductor circuit device with high electrostatic breakdown endurance  
In a semiconductor circuit device, an internal circuit, a common wiring pattern, a plurality of external terminals including a ground terminal, and a plurality of protection elements is provided....
6268993 Electrostatic discharge protection clamp for high-voltage power supply or I/O with nominal-voltage reference  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection technique protects a semiconductor device against electrostatic discharge events. The technique uses an ESD protection circuit that includes a two...
6268992 Displacement current trigger SCR  
Circuits, device structures and methods are disclosed which protect CMOS semiconductor devices, having oxides as thin as 32 Angstrom, from electrostatic discharge (ESD) by utilizing a parasitic...
6268990 Semiconductor protection device and power converting system  
A semiconductor protection device is used to suppress a surge voltage to a preset value or less, the surge voltage being caused at each turn-OFF time of 50 Hz to 20 kHz of a main IGBT functioning...
6266222 ESD protection network for circuit structures formed in a semiconductor  
An ESD protection network protects a CMOS circuit structure integrated in a semiconductor substrate. The circuit structure includes discrete circuit blocks formed in respective substrate portions...
6262873 Method for providing ESD protection for an integrated circuit  
A method for automatically generating a custom ESD network for an integrated circuit is provided. When a user provides chip size and chip capacitance for the integrated circuit, components for the...
6262870 Suppression of electrostatic interference from a transformer with a short ring  
A multi-winding transformer with a short ring includes an electrically conductive discharge path connected to the short ring for discharging the short ring and/or the transformer. Discharging the...
6256184 Method and apparatus for providing electrostatic discharge protection  
An ESD protection method and apparatus are provided for an IC chip having an I/O pad and I/O circuitry coupled to the I/O pad. A low threshold voltage FET is coupled to the I/O pad in parallel with...
6252754 Surge suppressor  
Surge suppressor apparatus comprising AC power line overvoltage protection, telephone voice line overvoltage and overcurrent protection, high speed data line overvoltage and overcurrent protection...
6249414 Displacement current trigger SCR  
Circuits, device structures and methods are disclosed which protect CMOS semiconductor devices, having oxides as thin as 32 Angstrom, from electrostatic discharge (ESD) by utilizing a parasitic...
6249413 Semiconductor ESD protection circuit  
Protection circuitry (10) for protecting an integrated circuit from an ESD pulse is provided. The protection circuitry (10) includes discharge circuitry (14) on a substrate (11) that discharges an...
6249410 ESD protection circuit without overstress gate-driven effect  
An ESD protection circuit is connected to an integrated circuit to dissipate an electrostatic charge from an ESD source placed in contact with two terminals of the integrated circuit to prevent...
6243250 Electrical connector  
Electrical connector (8) having connector terminals (12) at a front thereof to which external electrical conductors may be secured to make electrical connections between the conductors and the...
6243247 Stripline transient protection device  
Apparatus for protecting electronic components and equipment and method of manufacturing the apparatus. A transient protection device capable of mounting onto a circuit board. The transient...
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