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6327125 Integrated circuit with removable ESD protection  
An integrated circuit includes electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits coupled to protect I/O pins and or operational circuits from damage due to ESD events. The ESD protection circuits...
6323676 Termination circuits and methods therefor  
An active termination circuit for protecting a node against an ESD voltage spike is described. The ESD protection circuit includes a bottom ESD protection transistor having a first node coupled to...
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...
6317306 Electrostatic discharge protection circuit  
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit. A first NMOS transistor has a source and a gate terminal connected to a ground voltage and a drain terminal connected to the I/O pad. A second...
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...
6310752 Variable voltage protection structures and method for making same  
A variable voltage protection component in accordance with this invention comprises a reinforcing layer of insulating material having a substantially constant thickness embedded in a voltage...
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...
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...
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...
6292046 CMOS electrostatic discharge protection circuit with minimal loading for high speed circuit applications  
The present invention relates to a circuit for protecting inputs and outputs on semiconductor devices. The protective circuit is particularly useful on high-speed inputs or outputs (such as in...
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...
6285537 Stress-follower circuit configuration  
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit includes: a stress-follower circuit configuration. The stress-follower circuit of the configuration is coupled to...
6285536 High voltage input pad system  
A high voltage input pad and method for accepting electrostatic discharge (ESD) surges without damage to an input semiconductor amplifier. The protection system includes a metal gate, transistor,...
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...
6278381 Fault condition protective device for aircraft fuel gauging system  
A fault protective device (48) for limiting the maximum current and voltage applicable to electronic components and wiring (26, 30) located in the fuel tank (10) of an aircraft. Particularly, a...
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....
6271999 ESD protection circuit for different power supplies  
A voltage clamping circuit that protects integrated circuits having multiple separate power supply voltage terminals from damage when an ESD event causes excessive differential voltages between the...
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...
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...
6259297 Protection circuit for power transistor  
A protection circuit is disclosed for a bipolar power transistor for preventing the operating point thereof from leaving a useful operating area. The protection circuit includes a sense resistor...
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...
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...
6246242 Method of screening varistors  
A method of screening varistors. In a first step, a pulse generator is caused to apply to a varistor a large-current pulse having a peak value of at least 1 A and 90% or less of an average...
6246122 Electrostatic discharge protective schemes for integrated circuit packages  
An ESD protective device for protection of an integrated circuit (IC) package from electrostatic discharge damage. The ESD protective device protects the internal circuit of the IC connected to...
6243243 Solar array with ESD protection  
A solar array having protection from electrostatic discharge (ESD) has a load coupled to the array. The load has a ground terminal that is also coupled to the solar array. A high impedance device...
6239958 Electrostatic damage protection circuit and dynamic random access memory  
When a semiconductor integrated device is in an inactive state without being supplied with electric power, depletion type NMOS transistors act as resistors whereby a signal line connected to an...
6236551 Surge suppressor device  
An apparatus and method for protecting hardware devices using a spiral inductor. The surge suppressor protects hardware devices from electric surges by isolating the radio frequency from an inner...
6236549 Circuit for preventing module damage in integrated circuits which require a plurality of supply voltages  
An electrical circuit, which accepts an integrated circuit, which is supplied with operating voltages of different levels, and in which, between the supply voltages at their regular level, there is...
6233130 ESD Protection device integrated with SCR  
A transient voltage-pump circuit pumps the ESD voltage to a higher voltage. The pumped-high transient voltage is used for early triggering of an SCR. In one version of the present invention, a pn...
6229682 Transient voltage surge suppressor  
A transient voltage surge suppressor is provided to protect equipment with voltage sensitive electronics, such as office equipment, from surges or transients in the multi-phase power distribution...
6229443 Apparatus and method for detuning of RFID tag to regulate voltage  
Overload protection is provided to the tuned receiving front end circuitry of an RFID tag by selectively detuning the tuned receiving front end in response to sensed voltage overload generated...
6229355 Switching device for suppressing a rush current  
A switching device includes a phase controlling circuit (801) which shifts and outputs a phase of a command signal, and a plurality of switching units (110) connected in parallel between a power...
6229180 MOS type semiconductor apparatus  
A MOS type semiconductor apparatus is provided which includes a main MOS type semiconductor device, an internal control circuit connected between a control input terminal (G) and a control input...
6226163 Device and method relating to protection of an object against over-currents comprising over-current reduction  
This invention is related to a device and a method in an electric power plant for protection of an object (1) against over-currents from a network (3) or another equipment included in the high...
6226162 Surge suppression network responsive to the rate of change of power disturbances  
A surge suppression network for single and multiphase ac systems has a voltage clamping device connected in series with a gated crowbar device across the supply voltage in parallel with the load to...
6222710 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...
6215637 Internal voltage clamp protection circuit without parasitic cross-talk  
A internal circuitry protection scheme which protects on-IC circuitry when an external pin is shorted to a higher than normal voltage. The disclosed solution eliminates cross-talk due to a...
6215135 Integrated circuit provided with ESD protection means  
An integrated circuit provided with ESD protection means comprising a silicon-controlled rectifier whose n-well (WLL), if the substrate (SBSTR) of the integrated circuit is of the p-type, is...
6211565 Apparatus for preventing electrostatic discharge in an integrated circuit  
An integrated circuit package includes a semiconductor chip, a plurality of wired pins, and at least one non-wired pin. The size of the non-wired pin is minimized, or the non-wired pin is...
6208494 Semiconductor integrated circuit device including electrostatic protection circuit accommodating drive by plurality of power supplies and effectively removing various types of surge  
According to a structure in which each transistor of an output buffer transistor group of a gate array structure is electrically isolated, each body potential is set independent Also, a...
6208493 Method and system for protecting integrated circuits against a variety of transients  
A high-energy pulse protection device (10) protects an integrated circuit (28 and 30). The integrated circuit (28 and 30) is associated with an integrated circuit substrate region (64). The...
6204715 Signal amplifying circuit  
Circuitry for amplifying a single-ended analog sensor output includes a field effect transistor (FET) having a gate connected to a first end of a capacitor, the second opposite end of which is...
6201427 Circuitry for protecting a N-channel load driving device from reverse voltage condition  
The invention relates to circuitry for protecting n-channel load driving devices from reverse voltage conditions and for inhibiting the flow of destructive currents through such devices under...
6191928 Surface-mountable device for protection against electrostatic damage to electronic components  
The thin film, electrical device is an subminiature overvoltage circuit protection device in a surface mountable configuration for use in printed circuit board or thick film hybrid circuit...
6188557 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...
6188263 Electrostatic protection circuit  
An electrostatic protection circuit protects an internal circuit from electric charge which is applied via an electrode pad. The above electrostatic protection circuit mainly includes a protection...
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