CMOS Compatible bipolar drive circuit with protective clamp

Details CMOS Compatible bipolar drive circuit with protective clamp CMOS Compatible bipolar drive circuit with protective clamp

1978-06-12

1981-09-15

Zazworsky, John

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Nonlinear reactor systems

Parametrons

307315, 307567, 307DIG1, H03K 301, H03K 1716, H03K 502

Patent

active

042899770

ABSTRACT:
A bipolar drive circuit for driving a load, such as a printer, is compatible with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry and may be driven by a non-inverting hex buffer. Connected to the input of the drive circuit is a clamp circuit for providing a shunt path to ground for leakage currents during floating or open circuit conditions at the input. The output of the drive circuit includes a plurality of transistors connected in a complementary Darlington configuration to provide the necessary current gain to drive a conventional output, medium power, transistor. A diode is connected between the input of the drive circuit and ground for protection.

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patent: 3553486 (1971-01-01), Dow
patent: 3601626 (1971-08-01), Hoffmann et al.
patent: 3753008 (1973-08-01), Guarnaschelli
patent: 3786442 (1974-01-01), Alexander et al.
patent: 3868517 (1975-02-01), Schoeff
patent: 3937988 (1976-02-01), De Clue et al.
patent: 4037118 (1977-07-01), Sieborger et al.

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