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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:
Nov. 09, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Guenter H Lehmann, Dallas, TX (US);
William L Payne, II, Garland, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dallas Semiconductor Corp., Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307475 ; 3072961 ;
Abstract
A transceiver (100) for TTL and RS232 communication with automatic sensing (130) of the type of input and adjustment of the output to correspond together with current stealing (131) from the input communication lines to provide extreme voltages for transmission. Hysteresis and surge suppression are built into the sensing.