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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1989
John Y Babico, Wheeling, IL (US);
Adelore F Petrie, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A short-circuit protected switched output circuit having: an input node (I10) for receiving an input switching signal; an output node (O10) for outputting a switched output signal; switch means (Q10) connected between the input and output nodes; and a Schmitt trigger NAND gate oscillator arrangement (C10, D11, D12, NG10, R12, R13, R14) having an input coupled to the output node and having an output coupled via diode means to the input node, whereby the oscillator arrangement produces a low frequency, low duty-cycle, fixed-frequency signal at the output node in the event of the output node being short-circuited. An alternative circuit using a Schmitt trigger inverter are also disclosed.