Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Safety and protection of systems and devices – With specific circuit breaker or control structure
Patent
1998-06-02
2000-08-22
Jackson, Stephen W.
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Safety and protection of systems and devices
With specific circuit breaker or control structure
361 911, 361119, H02H 300
Patent
active
061081868
ABSTRACT:
It is an object to provide a game machine having communication terminals wherein an integrated circuit portion is reliably protected from static electricity or a surge voltage input through the communication terminals without using communication terminals in a special configuration or providing an openable cap while reducing the overall cost. There is provided an integrated circuit portion 3 which includes communication terminals TA1 and TA2 provided such that they are exposed at one side of a game machine main body 1 and which transmits and receives data to and from another game machine through the communication terminals when the communication terminals TA1 and TA2 are connected to the communication terminals of another game machine. A protection circuit is provided between the integrated circuit portion 3 and communication terminals TA1 and TA2. This protection circuit includes a first diode DD1 for bypassing a current produced by a positive surge voltage and a second diode DD2 for bypassing a current produced by a negative surge voltage. The first diode DD1 and the second diode DD2 are series-connected in the forward direction, and the connecting point is connected to the communication terminals.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5785597 (1998-07-01), Shinohara
patent: 5791993 (1998-08-01), Nakanishi
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