Inverted circuit overcurrent protection device and hybrid integrated circuit device with the same incorporated

• US 7,136,269 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2003
• Issued: 11/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries LLC (ON Semiconductor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Koike, Yasuhiro, Iimura, Junichi, Izutani, Soichi, Okawa, Katsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Jackson, Stephen W
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOANG, ANN THI
• Application Number:
  US10/422,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20030227730A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,300 Days
• Field of Search: 361/93.1
• US Class Current: 361/93.7
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 3/006 Calibration or setting of parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 7/1222 responsive to abnormalities in the input circuit, e.g. transients in the DC input

Abstract

An inverter circuit overcurrent protection device in which an overcurrent detection resistor (Rs) is incorporated in a hybrid integrated circuit, in which a detection voltage from the overcurrent detection resistor (Rs) is divided by voltage dividing resistors (R₁ and R₂) and is compared with a reference voltage in an overcurrent detection circuit, for carrying out an overcurrent protection, and an external resistor is connected in series or in parallel with one of the voltage dividing resistors (R₁ and R₂) to change a division ratio so that the level of overcurrent protection can be adjusted; and an embodiment wherein, in the vicinity of a current detection terminal, a first pad (P1) is connected to a detection voltage from the overcurrent detection resistance, a second pad (P2) is connected to a detection voltage from the amplifier, and a third pad (P3) is connected to the voltage dividing resistors, and a bonding wire (10) is connected between the current detection terminal one of said pads, to select one of a plurality of overcurrent protection devices.

Claims

1. A hybrid integrated circuit device with an overcurrent protection circuit, comprising:

a plurality of switching elements,

a drive circuit for driving the switching elements,

a control circuit which generates a control signal to be inputted into the drive circuit to control a load,

an overcurrent detection resistor connected to the switching elements,

a detection voltage amplifier,

voltage dividing resistors,

an overcurrent detection circuit which compares a divided detection voltage with a reference voltage for carrying out an overcurrent protection,

a hybrid integrated circuit comprising a plurality of connection pads, and

a current detection terminal;

wherein, in the vicinity of said current detection terminal, a first pad connected to receive a detection voltage from said overcurrent detection resistor, a second pad is connected to receive a detection voltage from said amplifier, and a third pad is connected to said voltage dividing resistors.

2. The device of claim 1 further comprising a bonding wire connection between said current detection terminal and one of said pads.

3. The hybrid integrated circuit device with an overcurrent protection circuit of claim 1, wherein

when said current detection terminal is connected via a bonding wire to the pad connected to a detection voltage from said overcurrent detection resistor, for use with a separate overcurrent detection circuit outside the hybrid integrated circuit device.

4. The device of claim 3 in combination with an overcurrent detection circuit outside the hybrid integrated circuit device.

5. The hybrid integrated circuit device with an overcurrent protection circuit of claim 1, wherein

when said current detection terminal is connected to the pad connected via a bonding wire to a detection voltage from said amplifier, for use with a separate overcurrent detection circuit provided outside the hybrid integrated circuit device.

6. The device of claim 5 in combination with an overcurrent detection circuit outside the hybrid integrated circuit device.

7. The hybrid integrated circuit device with an overcurrent protection circuit of claim 1, wherein, when said current detection terminal is connected via a bonding wire to said third pad,

an amplifier for amplifying a detection voltage from said overcurrent detection resistor incorporated into said hybrid integrated circuit device, voltage dividing resistors for dividing said detection voltage, and an overcurrent detection circuit which compares a divided detection voltage with a reference voltage for carrying out an overcurrent protection are used, and

an external resistor is connected to said current detection terminal and is connected in series with the voltage dividing resistors to change a division ratio so as to adjust an overcurrent protection level.