Brian R Mcclure

US Patent:

7948726, May 24, 2011

Filed:

Sep 25, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/284883

Inventors:

Brian R. McClure - Newnan GA, US

Assignee:

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, division of Panasonic Corporation of North America - Peachtree City GA

International Classification:

H02H 9/00
H01C 7/12
H02H 1/00
H02H 1/04
H02H 3/22

US Classification:

361 56, 361118

Abstract:

There is disclosed an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device and method. An electronic device () that employs an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises an electronic component () having a signal input conductor (). An exemplary ESD protection circuit () includes a spark gap () in series with a high pass quarter wave transformer (). The exemplary ESD protection circuit () is adapted to discharge an ESD pulse from the signal input conductor () of the electronic component () to a ground plane () via the spark gap () and/or the high pass quarter wave transformer ().