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Current Assignee
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Patent Inventor Names
Yuri Mirgorodski0
Peter J. Hopper0
Vladislav Vashchenko0
Date of Patent
May 22, 2007
0Patent Application Number
111299570
Date Filed
May 16, 2005
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A ballasting region is placed between the base region and the collector contact of a bipolar junction transistor to relocate a hot spot away from the collector contact of the transistor. Relocating the hot spot away from the collector contact prevents the collector contact from melting during an electrostatic discharge (ESD) pulse.
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