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6490174 Electronic interface for power stealing circuit  
An interface circuit cooperates with an existing power-stealing circuit designed for use with low voltage AC power. The existing power-stealing circuit provides low voltage DC power for operating...
6489755 Active ripple and noise filter for telecommunication equipment powering  
An active tracking filter reduces low frequency noise (such as a 20 Hz ringing signal) riding on a DC voltage (e.g., on the order of (−40 VDC) applied to a load such as a subscriber line...
6489728 Power efficient LED driver quiescent current limiting circuit configuration  
To prevent inadvertent illumination of a light emitting diode (or set of light emitting diodes) by stray currents at extremely low levels, a quiescent current limiting resistive load is connected...
6479972 Voltage regulator for supplying power to internal circuits  
A regulator for supplying the power of internal circuits, which makes the power of internal circuits independent of the voltage of the outlet power supply by using multi-stage method to control the...
6472855 Voltage regulator circuit with transient generator to respond to load current changes and method therefor  
A regulator circuit ( 10 ) includes an amplifier ( 61 ) having an input for sensing an output signal (V S , I LOAD ) of the regulator circuit and an output ( 13 ) for producing a transient signal...
6473280 Switching voltage regulator failure detection circuit and method  
A failure detection scheme for switching voltage regulators senses a parameter which normally transitions above and below a predetermined threshold during each clock cycle. A decision circuit...
6469482 Inductive charge pump circuit for providing voltages useful for flash memory and other applications  
A DC voltage boost circuit capable of improved efficiency. The DC voltage boost circuit includes an inductive element, a switching device, an output capacitive element, and a regulation circuit....
6469481 Parallel RC current detection circuit and DC/DC converter with a parallel RC current detection circuit  
An RC series circuit is provided in parallel with an inductor. The RC series circuit is comprised of a resistor and a capacitor which are connected with each other in series. A voltage across the...
6469483 PWM control circuit for DC-DC converter  
An error amplification circuit is configured by cascading together an operational amplification circuit and a proportional integration control circuit, both having a fixed operation point (ground...
6465995 Switching power supply with AC waveform capability  
A switching power supply which generates AC power, as opposed to DC power. A transistor opens and closes to thereby generate charge-discharge cycles through an inductor-resistor combination. Each...
6462524 Floating buck regulator topology  
Apparatus and method that provide for a Buck regulator with reduced open-switch voltage requirements. The buck regulator includes a transformer with a primary coil that is charged by an input...
6462522 Transistor pattern for voltage regulator  
A voltage regulator with an input terminal and an output terminal has a printed circuit board, a substrate mounted on the printed circuit board, and a first flip-chip type integrated circuit chip...
6462523 Load-synchronous doppler charge pump with an integrated series-path regulator  
Load-synchronous Doppler charge pump with an integrated series-path regulator A circuit for voltage raising for pulsed-operated loads is proposed. A capacitor CH is driven by a switching unit ( 2, ...
6462521 High-speed charge-mode controller for a multi-phase switched-mode power converter  
A multiphase controller for a PWM power converter employs a single current sense device to measure input current, I, and an integrator at each phase to accurately measure power delivered during a...
6459248 Microelectronic current regulator  
A circuit for providing regulated power to a microelectronic device is disclosed. The circuit includes an error amplifier, a transistor, and a supplemental voltage supply coupled to the transistor....
6456050 Virtual frequency-controlled switching voltage regulator  
A control voltage is generated as a function of on-time and off-time of a main regulator loop in response to apparent duty cycle of a voltage regulator circuit. Such control voltage is used in a...
6456049 Power supply device and information processing apparatus providing a stable power supply  
The present invention is a power supply device including a power input terminal which inputs a DC voltage, a DC/DC converter which has a feedback terminal and converts the input DC voltage from the...
6452368 Circuit and method of operating a low-noise, on-demand regulator in switched or linear mode  
A dual mode voltage converter ( 18 ) is provided which is capable of performing linear or switched modes of operation based on an external mode select signal presented to terminal (MODE). Pulse...
6448749 Circuit configuration for regulating the power consumption of an integrated circuit  
The present invention relates to an integrated circuit which is connected to a reference-ground potential and to a supply potential. Since differing activity in the integrated circuit results in a...
6448750 Voltage regulator for non-volatile memory with large power supply rejection ration and minimal current drain  
A regulator circuit to deliver a regulated boosted voltage VPP from a charge pump to electrodes of the cells of a non-volatile memory (NVM) array, such as an EPROM, integrated circuit device. The...
6441679 Semiconductor active fuse operating at higher supply voltage employing current oscillation  
A high-voltage semiconductor active fuse has first and second semiconductor elements, a comparator for comparing the voltages of the first and second semiconductor elements with each other, a...
6441596 Switching regulator with reduced high-frequency noise  
A switching regulator, by turning a switching device on and off, converts the level of a direct-current voltage fed in via an input terminal, and then feeds out the thus level-converted voltage via...
6441597 Method and apparatus for sensing output inductor current in a DC-to-DC power converter  
A current sense circuit for a DC-to-DC power converter accurately senses the output inductor current without adversely affecting efficiency of the power converter. The current sense circuit...
6437549 Battery charger  
A battery charger is provided that does not sink current from the battery during a reverse mode of operation. The battery charger includes upper and lower switching circuits, which alternately...
6433524 Resistive bridge interface circuit  
A resistive bridge interface circuit includes: (a) a pair of input power terminals; and (b) a resistive bridge circuit that includes a pair of parallel resistive branches coupled between the pair...
6433523 Semiconductor integrated circuit and method for generating internal supply voltage  
A system supply voltage, supplied from an external supply circuit, is lowered to generate an internal supply voltage for an internal circuit when the system supply voltage is higher than a...
6430070 Synchronous PWM switching regulator system  
A synchronous pulse width modulation (PWM) switching regulator that is suitable for high-performance CPUs. A DAC converts a plurality of inputted digital signal into analog signal that indicates...
6429635 Drive circuit for insulated gate type FETs  
A drive circuit for driving an FET includes a charge pump circuit which comprises multi-stage switching elements, condensers, and inversion buffers, and operates in response to the oscillatory...
6429641 Power booster and current measuring unit  
A power booster and current measuring circuit provides a quiet, accurate voltage to a load (such as a transistor during parametric testing) with a load current of up to 1 ampere, and can measure...
6429634 Voltage boosting device, in particular for speeding power-up of multilevel nonvolatile memories  
A voltage boosting device for speeding power-up of multilevel nonvolatile memories, including a voltage regulator and a charge pump and having an output terminal; the voltage regulator having a...
6429632 Efficient CMOS DC-DC converters based on switched capacitor power supplies with inductive current limiters  
A novel class of DC to DC power converters and a method of conversion is provided using high-frequency switched capacitors where the switches are implemented by CMOS transistors or diodes on an...
6429633 Switching regulator and LSI system  
In a switching regulator, switching noise is reduced with keeping high conversion efficiency. The switching regulator includes plural output switching transistors 21 through 23 having different...
6426612 Circuit and method for sensing an over-current condition of a dual mode voltage converter  
A current sense circuit ( 14 ) is provided which receives a signal indicative of output current flow of an up/down DC-DC converter during up-conversion and down-conversion modes. The current sense...
6424129 Method and apparatus for accurately sensing output current in a DC-to-DC voltage converter  
An apparatus and method for accurately sensing the output current delivered to a load by a buck-type DC-to-DC switched mode power converter corrects for thermal variation of the output inductor. A...
6424130 Output voltage detecting circuit  
An output voltage detecting circuit is added to a step-down DC-DC converter or a step-up DC-DC converter and is controlled so that an abnormally high increase in a regulated output voltage of the...
6424131 Output controller  
The object of the present invention is, in a power control device including an auxiliary circuit that is connected in parallel to an output circuit and controls an adjusting current smaller by a...
6424133 Control voltage generator and method for generating control voltage having phase difference  
A control voltage generator and a related method generate control voltages having a phase difference. The control voltage generator includes first thru N-th loads (where N is a positive integer no...
6424132 Adding a laplace transform zero to a linear integrated circuit for frequency stability  
A compensation circuit for introducing a zero in a first circuit being incorporated in a closed loop feedback system includes a first capacitor, an amplifier and a second capacitor, connected in...
6420858 DC-to-DC converter circuit having a power saving mode  
A DC-to-DC converter circuit having a power saving mode, and which achieves a high conversion efficiency without using a sense resistance. The DC-to-DC converter circuit includes a triangular wave...
6420860 Power supply switching apparatus for facsimile machine  
A power supply switching apparatus for a facsimile machine includes a power supply switch, a switch controller and a capacitor-based power supply. The power supply switch is configured to...
6421257 Power converter control loop  
An apparatus for and method of control of a switch ( 102 ) in an electrical power converter ( 100 ) using pulse width modulation to regulate output voltage ( 112 ) and current The method allows...
6417653 DC-to-DC converter  
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a DC-to-DC converter includes: a circuit configuration to modify the set point of the output voltage signal level of the DC-to-DC...
6414469 Current sensing and current sharing  
An interleaved small-inductance buck voltage regulator (VRM) converter with the novel current sensing and sharing technology significantly improves transient response with size minimization....
6411068 Self-oscillating switching regulator  
A switching regulator connectable to a DC power supply includes a power switch coupled between a first node and an output node and having a control gate. An output voltage feedback circuit is...
6407899 Fault detection in a redundant power converter  
Aspects for detecting faults in a redundant power converter are described. In an exemplary circuit aspect, a circuit for sensing faults in a redundant power converter includes a first voltage level...
RE37738 Simple and efficient switching regulator for fast transient loads such as microprocessors  
A buck switching DC-to-DC regulator having a resistor and capacitor in combination across the storage inductor to measure output current and voltage. The resistor connects to the input of the...
6404175 Multi-phase and multi-module power supplies with balanced current between phases and modules  
A multi-phase power supply utilizes a current sensor including a sensor inductor winding connected in parallel with a filter inductor winding at the output of each phase for sensing the phase...
6404174 Circuit for in-system programming of memory device  
A programming circuit is coupled to an input/output pin of a device and is operative to generate a selected one of a plurality of electrical stimuli, such as a programming voltage, high and low...
6393573 Power management for automotive multimedia system  
A multimedia/personal computer-based system for operating information, communication, and entertainment devices in a mobile vehicle uses a power management strategy which reduces power consumption...
6384584 Current control circuit  
The PMOS transistor M 1 is controlled by a time constant circuit 2 having a second resistor R 2 and a capacitor C 1 which are provided between a collector of the PNP transistor Q 1 and the...