The invention provides a short-circuit protective circuit for a
constant-voltage power-supply circuit. The constant-voltage power-supply
circuit can realize a short-circuit protection with a simple circuit
configuration in a power-supply circuit provided with a plurality of
power-supply lines. A regulator is connected to one of a plurality of
power-supply lines, and a constant voltage is outputted from an output
terminal of the regulator through an output line. An output voltage from
the regulator is inputted to constant-voltage circuits as a reference
voltage, and output constant voltages from the constant-voltage circuits
are supplied to the other output lines. A voltage detection circuit is
connected to the other output lines, wherein if a voltage drop occurs in
any output line, a detection signal is outputted to an operation circuit,
thereby turning off an output control terminal of the regulator.
Accordingly, the output of the regulator is stopped so that all of the
output lines are stopped all at once. The invention is cost-efficient
because the invention uses only one regulator to control multiple
power-supply lines.