Patent ID: 7800180

Claim:
A semiconductor electrostatic protection device which provides an internal circuit having a high breakdown voltage transistor and electrostatic protection elements for protecting the internal circuit, comprising: a first electrostatic protection circuit including a plurality of the electrostatic protection elements; an input/output terminal; a ground terminal; and a power source terminal; wherein a sum of breakdown voltage values of the plurality of electrostatic protection elements in the first electrostatic protection circuit is substantially equal to the breakdown voltage value of the high breakdown voltage transistor; the plurality of the electrostatic protection elements are connected in series in the first electrostatic protection circuit and the first electrostatic protection circuit is connected between the input/output terminal and the ground terminal to which terminals the internal circuit is connected; and the electrostatic protection element includes a second conductive type diffusion layer formed substantially all over on a first conductive type semiconductor substrate, wherein the electrostatic protection element is a MOSFET type electrostatic protection element and the MOSFET type electrostatic protection element includes: a first conductive type well layer formed on a first conductive type semiconductor substrate; second conductive type source regions formed on the first conductive type well layer; a second conductive type drain region formed on the first conductive type well layer; first conductive type back gate power supply regions formed on the first conductive type well layer; and a second conductive type diffusion layer for electrically separating the first conductive type semiconductor substrate from the first conductive type well layer formed on the first conductive type semiconductor substrate; wherein an impurity concentration of the second conductive type diffusion layer is less than an impurity concentration of the second conductive type source regions and the second conductive type drain region.