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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. 05, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2005
Applicants:
Gordon H. Allen, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Peter J. Bills, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Bryan Quinones, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Gordon H. Allen, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Peter J. Bills, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Bryan Quinones, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H03K 5/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment, an integrated fault detector circuit is used to detect one or more of the open circuit and short circuit of a load connected to an integrated circuit power MOSFET driver by directly detecting the level of current flowing in a floating current source.