Input protection device
CA 2021184 C · Owner: Mitel Corporation · Inventors: Orchard-Webb, Jonathan
Overview
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An integrated circuit has an input protection device including a bipolar transistor to shunt current away from sensitive areas of the circuit during an e.s.d. event. The bipolar transistor includes floating electrodes on the base to define an equipotential base region so that the effective size of the emitter, and hence the currently handling capability of the transistor, is increased.
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- Filed July 13, 1990 and granted October 17, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 13, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 13, 2012.
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