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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Transphorm Japan, Inc., Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshihiro Takemae, Minato, JP;
Assignee:
Transphorm Japan, Inc., Yokohama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/00 (2006.01); H03K 3/00 (2006.01); H03K 17/687 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/6877 (2013.01);
Abstract
A driver circuit includes an output terminal connected to a gate of a Schottky transistor, a reference transistor formed in the same manner as the Schottky transistor, a resistor connected between a first power source line and a gate of the reference transistor, a voltage generator configured to supply a second node with a voltage equal to or lower than a voltage at a first node between the resistor and the reference transistor, and a switching element configured to transmit the voltage at the second node to the output terminal in response to a signal inputted to an input terminal.