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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:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard T Ida, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Daniel L Ziegler, Austin, TX (US);
Robert O Wagner, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361 56 ; 361 58 ; 361111 ; 361118 ;
Abstract
An overvoltage protection device (40) and a method for increasing the overvoltage current the device can carry. The overvoltage protection device (40) includes a Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR) (11) and an SCR enhance circuit (42). The SCR enhance circuit (42) provides the SCR (11) with an additional low resistance path to increase the amount of overvoltage shunt current the SCR (11) carries during an overvoltage event.