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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:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
May. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
William B. Shearon, Findlay, OH (US);
Peter G. Klein, Mount Cory, OH (US);
Paul J. Graves, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Assignee:
Intersil Americas Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/00 ;
Abstract
A bus driver circuit has floating gate circuits with three transistors. Two of the transistors for an inverter for operating the output power transistor. The third transistor is connected to receive control signals from well pull circuits. The control signal keeps the third transistor off when the bus driver circuit is not enabled.