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6031706 Punch down protection module providing both transient protection and longitudinal current protection  
A single circuit protection module for protecting a first T/R pair that is electrically coupled to a punch down connection block from undesirable transients and longitudinal currents that appear on...
6031705 Surge protection circuit, in particular for inputs of integrated circuits  
A surge protection circuit that can be used, in particular, for monitoring and protecting a diagnostic interface, such as, for example, the SAE J 1708 diagnostic interface. A shared surge detection...
6031704 Electrostatic protection circuit in a semiconductor device  
A power line and a ground line of a bipolar transistor for the electrostatic protection are isolated from a power line and a ground line of an active transistor for data input and output. Also, a...
6028758 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for a 5.0 volt compatible input/output (I/O) in a 2.5 volt semiconductor process  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided for a 5.0 volt compatible I/O buffer with transistors made using a 2.5 volt process. The ESD circuit includes a lateral NPN bipolar...
6025982 Balanced wire connector  
A weatherproof protector module for telecommunication circuits has wire insertion points that are arranged in lateral, forward and rearward symmetry about a single stuffer screw. The module...
6025981 Flexible voltage transient detector circuit  
A flexible voltage transient detector circuit is disclosed. The detector circuit includes an initialization unit, a first comparator, and a second comparator. The output of the initialization unit...
6018453 Surge arrester protection system and method  
A surge arrester protection system includes a surge arrester, a first mechanism fixed on a first end of the surge arrester for directing arcs around the surge arrester and a second mechanism fixed...
6018452 Residential protection service center  
Residential protection service center apparatus comprising AC power line overvoltage protection, telephone voice line overvoltage and overcurrent protection, high speed data line overvoltage and...
6018448 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...
6016245 Voltage overshoot protection circuit  
A voltage overshoot protection circuit includes an integration circuit configuration. The integration circuit configuration is included in the voltage overshoot protection circuit so as to...
6014305 ESD event detector  
An ESD event detector in accordance with the present invention is implemented by an amplifier-like structure, an input device of which is constituted by a non-volatile memory transistor. The...
6014298 Electrostatic protection circuit of an integrated circuit  
The protection circuit of the invention connects in series with an internal circuit between a first power source and a second power source. The protection circuit includes a switch which is...
6011681 Whole-chip ESD protection for CMOS ICs using bi-directional SCRs  
CMOS VLSI chips with pin counts greater than 100 often have multiple power pins to supply sufficient current for circuit operations. In mixed voltage ICs there are separated power pins with...
6011420 ESD protection apparatus having floating ESD bus and semiconductor structure  
An apparatus for protecting an integrated circuit against damage from electrostatic discharges (ESD) includes a single ESD bus that is connected to multiple input pads through a respective diode....
6008976 Connector for a protector block in a telecommunications system  
A telecommunications network (10) includes a main distribution frame (12) that receives telecommunications traffic carried over individual tip and ring signal line pairs (20) from trunks (18). The...
6008975 Self-compressive surge arrester module and method of making same  
A surge arrester module having an array of MOV's and other components includes an insulative coating (16) for applying an axially compressive force to the stacked array. The component stack (20),...
6008974 Electrostatic discharge protective circuit for reducing an undesired channel turn-on  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protective circuit for reducing the electron-tunneling phenomena in NMOS devices. Several complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices act as an ESD...
6008970 Power supply clamp circuitry for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection  
Circuitry is provided which increases the efficiency of electrostatic discharge (ESD) power supply clamping circuitry to sink larger currents during an ESD event on a power supply node. Voltage...
6002570 Residential protection service center  
Residential protection service center apparatus comprising an AC power meter, AC power line surge suppression, telephone line overvoltage protection and coaxial transmission line overvoltage...
6002569 Electrostatic discharge protection apparatus  
Apparatus for protecting at least one internal component of a printed circuit board provided inside a housing from an electrostatic discharge which is generated from outside the housing and enters...
6002568 ESD protection scheme for mixed-voltage CMOS integrated circuits  
In this invention, a whole-chip ESD protection scheme with the SCR string or the SCR/diode-mixed string are proposed to protect the mixed-voltage CMOS IC's against the ESD damage. The SCR string or...
6002567 ESD protection for high voltage level input for analog application  
The present invention provides for ESD protection while allowing the use of an input signal that is higher than V DD . The present invention preferably includes a protection device and a delay...
5999393 Surge protector and lead assembly with improved contact area between the protector and lead  
The present invention provides a lead for attachment to a cylindrical protector element with a circular contact ring thereon and a circular groove adjacent and axially inward of the contact ring....
5999392 Reset circuit with transient detection function  
The invention relates to an automatic reset circuit for detecting much faster transient voltage variation between the supply voltage (VDD) and the electric ground (GND) of an electric system with...
5999391 Outage device and surge protection using the same  
An outage device and a surge-protection that uses the outage device, wherein the outage device is formed by connecting an overcurrent protection and an overheat protection in series, and packaged...
5999386 Cross-referenced electrostatic discharge protection systems and methods for power supplies  
An electrostatic discharge protection system provides electrostatic discharge protection for an integrated circuit having a package and a semiconductor device installed within the package. The...
5995355 Gas-filled discharge path in a form of a spark gap or an overvoltage diverter  
In order to optimize the so-called light-dark effect, i.e., the difference in ignition voltage between the first and second ignition after dark storage in gas-filled discharge paths, an additional...
5995354 Electrostatic discharge protection circuit for recording electrostatic discharge event  
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit is used to protect an internal circuit that is electrically connected to an integrated circuit pad. The electrostatic discharge protection circuit...
5995353 Apparatus for discharging an electrostatic discharge via a spark gap coupled in series with a high impedance network  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage prevention device is comprised of a spark gap coupled in series with a high-impedance network, with a first node of the series combination of the spark gap...
5995352 Ignition apparatus and method  
The voltage across the spark gap is increased or amplified to ignite the gap when required, thus enabling ignition of the spark gap when required. The incremental voltage to obtain gap ignition is...
5991135 System including ESD protection  
A method and structure for providing ESD protection for an integrated circuit having multiple pairs of voltage supply rails, each pair including a VDD rail and a VSS rail. In one aspect, ESD...
5991134 Switchable ESD protective shunting circuit for semiconductor devices  
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit having a low impedance conduction path connecting all of a particular device's input/output paths to ground potential via switchable devices exhibiting...
5986869 Grounding panel  
Apparatus and method for protecting hardware devices using a grounding panel. The grounding panel provides a low inductance path to ground. The grounding panel includes first and second telescoping...
5986868 Input and output noise reduction circuit  
A circuit for limiting voltage transient excursions on a power supply node is disclosed. The circuit includes a first field effect transistor dispose to provide a capacitance and having source and...
5986867 Protection circuit for output drivers  
A DRAM output protection circuit (100). A dummy NMOS transistor (116) is connected in parallel with the NMOS output transistor (102). The gate of the dummy transistor (116) is connected through a...
5986864 Intercalation-based voltage variable capacitor  
A voltage variable capacitor (VVC) is made by placing an intercalation compound between two electrodes of a capacitor. The VVC has a reservoir of an intercalant in proximity with the intercalation...
5986863 Electrostatic discharge protection circuits including circumferential guard rings  
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits include first and second pads on an integrated circuit and first and second well regions in the integrated circuit substrate. The first and second...
5982602 Surge protector connector  
A surge protector connector comprises a surge protector having a front plate, a rear plate, and hollow cylindrical body bridging the front and rear plates. A coaxial cable connector interface...
5982601 Direct transient-triggered SCR for ESD protection  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure for an integrated circuit constructed on a semiconductor substrate of a first type (P) comprises a semiconductor controlled rectifier (SCR)...
5982600 Low-voltage triggering electrostatic discharge protection  
Systems and methods are described for providing low-voltage triggering electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in the context of integrated circuits. A low-voltage triggering electrostatic...
5982599 Input/output electrostatic discharge protection for devices with multiple individual power groups  
An electrostatic discharge protection system for an integrated circuit device, such as a solid state memory device or any other integrated circuit device having a plurality of individual power...
5982598 Protective circuit for a grounded power plant  
For use with a grounded power plant, capable of powering a load, having a power supply and a power distribution system, a protective circuit, including a voltage clamping device, coupled between a...
5978198 Transient voltage surge suppressor with three-way fault indication  
A transient voltage surge suppressor for an electrical circuit having a hot electrical conductor, a neutral electrical conductor, and a ground electrical conductor includes a first surge suppressor...
5978197 Testing ESD protection schemes in semiconductor integrated circuits  
Circuitry for testing and comparing ESD protection structures is provided on a semiconductor integrated circuit. Analysis of charge transmitted to a test capacitor on board the chip provides for...
5978192 Schmitt trigger-configured ESD protection circuit  
A Schmitt trigger-configured overvoltage protection circuit has a hysteresis turn-on, turn-off characteristic that minimizes its sensitivity to noise, and is effective to protect an integrated...
5973902 Modified surge protector  
A modified surge protector is provided including a housing having a pair of male contacts for being inserted into a power receptacle to receive power therefrom. Associated therewith is a pair of...
5973901 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....
5973900 High voltage protection for an integrated circuit input buffer  
Connection of a reference voltage to an inverter of an input buffer is controlled to protect the buffer from damage due to high voltage connected to the buffer so that the inverter is isolated from...
5973898 Detector circuit and automatic electrical interrupt apparatus  
The detector for a ground potential rise event includes a first transistor with a first antenna connected to the base collector junction of the transistor, and a second antenna connected to the...
5973897 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit with reduced node capacitance  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit with reduced high frequency signal distortion includes an additional input shunting diode and a voltage follower amplifier. This second diode and...
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