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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:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2005
Applicants:
Donald W. Schulte, Albany, OR (US);
Terry Mcmahon, Albany, OR (US);
David Douglas Hall, Corvallis, OR (US);
Inventors:
Donald W. Schulte, Albany, OR (US);
Terry McMahon, Albany, OR (US);
David Douglas Hall, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 37/76 (2006.01); H01H 85/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method provides a bipolar junction transistor that is coupled to a first power supply. A second power supply is utilized to turn on the bipolar junction transistor. And, the bipolar junction transistor is overdriven.