Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Overvoltage protection circuit for USB interface
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Application No.: US14969026Application Date: 2015-12-15
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Publication No.: US10148084B2Publication Date: 2018-12-04
- Inventor: Hassan Pooya Forghani-Zadeh , Timothy Bryan Merkin , Ariel Dario Moctezuma
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Michael A. Davis, Jr.; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H02H3/20
- IPC: H02H3/20 ; H02H9/04 ; H02H7/20

Abstract:
Protection circuits, USB interface integrated circuits, and methods for protecting host circuitry from USB port pin overvoltages, in which a switch is connected between a USB port pin and a middle node, and a detection circuit compares the middle node voltage with a reference voltage. A control circuit turns off the switch and turns on a clamp circuit to conduct pull down current from the middle node in response to the middle node voltage exceeding the reference voltage to mitigate overvoltage conditions on a host pin coupled to the middle node. When the middle node voltage falls below the reference voltage, the control circuit delays for a predetermined time and then turns off the clamp circuit and turns on the switch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160190794A1 OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT FOR USB INTERFACE Public/Granted day:2016-06-30
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