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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:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sanjeev Kumar Maheshwari, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Roger Jay Bettman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cypress SemiConductor, Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/22 ;
Abstract
An input gate protection circuit has a pass transistor having a source coupled to an input signal. A first voltage range control circuit is coupled to a gate of the pass transistor. A second voltage range is control circuit coupled to the gate of the pass transistor.