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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. 18, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
M Ali Khatibzadeh, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327314 ; 327324 ; 327375 ; 327584 ; 257577 ;
Abstract
In one form of the invention, a circuit is disclosed, the circuit comprising: a transistor Q having an input terminal 14 with an avalanche breakdown voltage to electrical ground; and one or more diodes 16 arranged in a series between the input terminal 14 and electrical ground, the diode series 16 having a forward-biased voltage drop that is smaller than the avalanche breakdown voltage.