Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bidirectional precision surge clamp with near-zero dynamic resistance and ultra-low leakage current
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Application No.: US16027914Application Date: 2018-07-05
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Publication No.: US11196250B2Publication Date: 2021-12-07
- Inventor: Zhao Fang , Emmanuel Osei Boakye , Mark Benjamin Welty , Eddie W. Yu
- 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 Michelle F. Murray; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H02H9/04
- IPC: H02H9/04 ; H01L29/08 ; H01L27/02 ; H01L29/417 ; H01L29/866 ; H01L29/10 ; H01L29/78

Abstract:
A surge protection device for providing bidirectional detections of one or more surge events. The device has low dynamic resistance during a surge protection mode, and it conducts ultra-low leakage current outside of the surge protection mode. In one implementation, the device includes first and second power transistors, a sensing circuit, and a driver circuit. The first power transistor includes a first source terminal that is coupled to the substrate, and the second power transistor includes a second source terminal that is coupled to the substrate. The sensing circuit is configured to detect a voltage of the first pin relative to the second pin and generate a sense signal when the voltage exceeds a threshold. The driver circuit is configured to generate a driver signal based on the sense signal and output the driver signal to at least one of the first or second gate terminal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190123556A1 BIDIRECTIONAL PRECISION SURGE CLAMP WITH NEAR-ZERO DYNAMIC RESISTANCE AND ULTRA-LOW LEAKAGE CURRENT Public/Granted day:2019-04-25
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