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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2016
Sii Semiconductor Corporation, Chiba-shi, Chiba, JP;
Teruo Suzuki, Chiba, JP;
SII SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, Chiba, JP;
Abstract
The voltage regulator includes an overheat protection circuit. The overheat protection circuit includes: a temperature sensing circuit; a voltage difference sensing circuit configured to output a current depending on a voltage difference between a power source voltage to be supplied to a power supply terminal and the output voltage; an output current monitoring circuit; a second reference voltage circuit configured to generate a second reference voltage; a comparator circuit configured to compare an output voltage of the temperature sensing circuit and the second reference voltage to each other; and an overheat protection transistor is configured to turn off the output transistor when the result of the comparison indicates an overheated state. The second reference voltage of the second reference voltage circuit is controlled based on an output current of the voltage difference sensing circuit and on an output current of the output current monitoring circuit.