IP Library Granted Patent US 7,675,140
Granted Patent B2
US 7,675,140 · App. 11/520,021 · Granted Mar 9, 2010

Semiconductor circuit device and display data line driver

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Patent No.
US 7,675,140
App. No.
11/520,021
Granted
Mar 9, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

An N-type diffusion layer fixed at a potential equal to or above 0V is provided in a segregating region between terminals, and a P-type diffusion layer having a potential equal to that of the N-type diffusion layer on an N-type well constitute a drain of a transistor.

Claims (13)

1. A semiconductor circuit device comprising:

a P-type well;

a plurality of N-type wells provided on the P-type well;

a plurality of transistors having drains provided on the corresponding N-type wells;

a first high concentration N-type diffusion layer provided on the P-type well in a transistor segregating region of said plurality of transistors;

a first high concentration P-type diffusion layer provided on the P-type well in said transistor segregating region of said plurality of transistors;

a fixed potential supply terminal provided in said transistor segregating region of said plurality of transistors for supplying an equal potential by short-circuiting said first high concentration N-type diffusion layer and said first high concentration P-type diffusion layer;

a second high concentration N-type diffusion layer provided on said N-type well; and

a second high concentration P-type diffusion layer provided on said N-type well, having a potential equal to said second high concentration N-type diffusion layer by short-circuiting said second high concentration P-type diffusion layer and said second high concentration N-type diffusion layer, and provided on drains of said transistors, wherein:

a parasitic PNP bipolar transistor is provided by said second high concentration P-type diffusion layer, said N-type well, said P-type well, and said first high concentration P-type diffusion layer in said transistor segregation region; and

a parasitic NPN bipolar transistor is provided by said second high concentration N-type diffusion layer, said N-type well, said P-type well, and said first high concentration N-type diffusion layer in said transistor segregation region, so that said parasitic PNP bipolar transistor and said parasitic NPN bipolar transistor form a thyristor structure.

2. A display data line driver comprising the semiconductor circuit device according to claim 1 and connected to a display data electrode line of a display panel.

3. A semiconductor circuit device according to claim 1 , wherein said plurality of transistors is provided by CMOS process.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 24, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021897/0689 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 28, 2006
From: KOJIMA, SHUICHIRO; SEIKE, MAMORU; ICHIHARA, TAKASHI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 018555/0926 →