Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Clamp for a hybrid switch
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Application No.: US16564850Application Date: 2019-09-09
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Publication No.: US10763852B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Hartley Horwitz , Sorin Georgescu , Kuo-Chang Robert Yang
- Applicant: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agent Pamela Kee
- Main IPC: H01L29/06
- IPC: H01L29/06 ; H03K17/567 ; H03K5/08 ; H01L29/866 ; H03K17/081

Abstract:
A switch having a drain, a source, and a control. The switch comprising a depletion-mode transistor including a first, a second, and a control terminal and an enhancement-mode transistor including a first, a second, and a control terminal. The first terminal of the depletion-mode transistor is the drain of the switch and the control of the depletion-mode transistor is coupled to the source of the switch. The control of the enhancement-mode transistor is coupled to the control of the switch, the second terminal of the enhancement-mode transistor is the source of the switch. The switch comprises a clamp circuit to clamp a voltage of the first terminal of the enhancement-mode transistor to a threshold, the clamp circuit comprises a resistor and a pn-junction device coupled between the first and second terminals of the enhancement-mode transistor and between the second terminal and the control of the depletion-mode transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190393874A1 CLAMP FOR A HYBRID SWITCH Public/Granted day:2019-12-26
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