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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:
Jun. 14, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365210 ; 365208 ;
Abstract
A sense circuit for sensing a memory state of a memory transistor in a semiconductor memory device by determining whether the memory transistor is on or off is provided. The sense circuit includes a first load P-channel MOS transistor for supplying a first current to the memory transistor, a reference transistor capable of passing a second current same in magnitude as the on current of the memory transistor, and a second load P-channel MOS transistor for supplying the second current to the reference transistor, whereby the second load P-channel MOS transistor is operatively coupled to the first load P-channel MOS transistor.