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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. 29, 1977
Filed:
Nov. 11, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert S Lundin, Northfield, CT (US);
John F Carragan, Woodbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
General Time Corporation, Thomaston, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
323 19 ; 323 24 ; 323 34 ;
Abstract
The firing circuit serves to interface a load circuit including a semiconductor device capable of large load currents and a control circuit operating at logic power levels and provides a relatively low current output to the gate terminal of the semiconductor device, which may be a triac, for controlling the load circuit.