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Current sensors and methods of improving accuracy thereof

US9425788B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 18, 2015
Grant dateAug 23, 2016
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Expiry dateMar 18, 2035

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10D62/8503
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for operating a circuit includes providing a three terminal main transistor and a four terminal sense transistor having a field plate. The method includes simultaneously applying a gate pulse on a gate terminal of the sense transistor and a gate terminal of the main transistor, and applying a field plate pulse on a field plate of the sense transistor. The field plate pulse is synchronous and in phase with the gate pulse.

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