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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:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas Ehben, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, München, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus in which the switching of a field-effect transistor is effected by the application of a control voltage suitable for switching to an RC element connected upstream of the gate terminal. The method and apparatus are distinguished by the fact that switching of the field-effect transistor is carried out using a control voltage that at least temporarily only slightly exceeds the threshold voltage via an attenuation circuit which has to be applied to the gate terminal of the field-effect transistor in order to be able to effect switching of the transistor.