Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Circuit overvoltage protection
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Application No.: US15827975Application Date: 2017-11-30
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Publication No.: US10896906B2Publication Date: 2021-01-19
- Inventor: Karim Thomas Taghizadeh Kaschani
- Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Rose Alyssa Keagy; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H02H9/04
- IPC: H02H9/04 ; H01L27/02 ; G01R31/00 ; H02H9/06

Abstract:
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit includes a snapback ESD protection device and an ESD tail current clamp circuit. The snapback ESD protection device is configured to shunt current of an ESD event to a voltage reference. The ESD tail current clamp circuit is connected in parallel with the snapback ESD protection device. The ESD tail current clamp circuit is configured to shunt tail current of the ESD event to the voltage reference while the snapback ESD protection device is disabled.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190164953A1 CIRCUIT OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION Public/Granted day:2019-05-30
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