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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:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven M. Barrow, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Jade H. Alberkrack, Tempe, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Semiconductor Components Industries LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 5/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 5/04 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor device ( ) includes a protection circuit ( ) that has an input ( ) for activating the protection circuit in response to a sampling pulse (V ) to detect a fault condition of the semiconductor device, and an output ( ) for producing a control signal (V ) when a fault condition is detected.