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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2008
Applicant:
Robert Xu, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Robert Xu, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Vishay Siliconix, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/06 (2006.01); H01L 29/78 (2006.01); H01L 23/525 (2006.01); H01L 27/088 (2006.01); H01L 29/417 (2006.01); H01L 29/66 (2006.01); H01L 29/808 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/7802 (2013.01); H01L 23/5256 (2013.01); H01L 27/088 (2013.01); H01L 29/41741 (2013.01); H01L 29/66734 (2013.01); H01L 29/7813 (2013.01); H01L 29/8083 (2013.01); H01L 2924/0002 (2013.01);
Abstract
A self repairing field effect transistor (FET) device, in accordance with one embodiment, includes a plurality of FET cells each having a fuse link. The fuse links are adapted to blow during a high current event in a corresponding cell.