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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:
Dec. 19, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kouros Azimi, West Chester, PA (US);
Zhigang Ma, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Dale H Nelson, Shillington, PA (US);
Brian J Petryna, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Oceager P Yee, Allentown, PA (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies, Inc, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327142 ; 327143 ; 327 63 ; 327 74 ; 327205 ;
Abstract
A multifunction reset circuit including low power bandgap, a comparator, and an open drain buffer circuit--with the inclusion of four external components (three resistors and one capacitor) to provide undervoltage monitoring, power failure indicating, manual resetting and other reset control conditions to a single integrated circuit terminal, together with hysteresis tolerance.