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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1990
Shoichi Furuhata, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductive device integrated on a single chip and adapted for self-protecting use in control applications, including an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) useful as a series controller for a load. In the event of a load failure (short), the upward current excursion is inhibited by a control arrangement in which a sensing resistor in the emitter circuit of the IGBT turns on a three-terminal signal shunt across the signal control path of the IGBT. The signal shunt includes a voltage dropping element such as a Zener diode and may also include Zener reverse-voltage protection. The sensing resistor may be placed in the low-current branch of a split-emitter current path of the IGBT. A pulsed constant-amplitude driving signal may be applied to the control signal path of the IGBT through serially-connected NPN and PNP bipolar transistors providing a common driving node connected through a serial impedance to the control signal path of the IGBT and to the signal shunt.