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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Angelo Ugge, Plano, TX (US);
Robert Pezzani, Vouvray, FR;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/978 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/978 ;
Abstract
A design for an overvoltage protection circuit can be used to fabricate several different circuits incorporating different protection techniques. The design is suitable for use in a single device, which can be easily and inexpensively packaged and protected from the environment. Three terminal protection circuits can have three terminals on an upper surface of a substrate, or one terminal on a lower surface of the substrate, using a single modular design. Additional circuitry can be included to sense for high current conditions which are caused by overvoltages too low to trigger the normal overvoltage protection circuits.