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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1986
Josef Einzinger, Unterschleissheim, DE;
Christine Fellinger, Unterhaching, DE;
Ludwig Leipold, Munich, DE;
Jenoe Tihanyi, Munich, DE;
Roland Weber, Munich, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Abstract
The voltage peaks occuring upon disconnection of inductive loads are normally attenuated by a by-pass diode connected in parallel with the load. The driving countervoltage is thereby limited to the value of the forward voltage drop of the diode. For a power MOSFET with a source-side inductive load, the driving countervoltage is increased by placing a series connection of an additional MOSFET and a Zener diode between the gate of the power MOSFET and the connection of the load which is remote from the power MOSFET. The driving countervoltage at the source now becomes the Zener voltage plus the occuring gate-source voltage of the power MOSFET.