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Component with sensitive component structures and method for the production thereof

US7998805B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

EPCOS AG · DE

Inventors

Thomas Baier · Birkenfeld, DE
Waldemar Gawlik · Samerberg, DE
Günter Kovacs · Birkenfeld, DE
Anton Leidl · Munich, DE
Christian Math · Birkenfeld, DE
Werner Ruile · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 9, 2008
Grant date	Aug 16, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 12, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH01L2924/3025
WIPO fieldSemiconductors
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electrical component has electrically conducting structures placed on an electrically isolating or semiconductive substrate and component structures sensitive to a voltage or an electrical arcing and galvanically separated from one another. To prevent an arcing between the galvanically separated component structures, the component structures are short-circuited with a shunt line having a smaller cross-section than the remaining electrical conductor tracks. The shunt lines can be burnt through by application of an electrical current at any given time, whereby a galvanic separation of the component structures is effected, if necessary, for the function of the component.

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