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7643320 Isolated resistive signature detection for powered devices  
In one embodiment, a load connected to power sourcing equipment (PSE) compatible with a Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard is characterized to determine whether the load corresponds to a valid...
7643322 Dual loop constant on time regulator  
A circuit for improving the regulation of a current or voltage output using a constant-on-time regulator. The circuit uses a dual sense loop design. One sense loop is used to adjust a reference...
7643315 Programmable feedback voltage pulse sampling for switched power supplies  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus that includes a power supply having a primary coil and a secondary coil. The secondary coil generates an output voltage and a feedback voltage related to the...
7639517 Adaptive output current control for switching circuits  
System and methodology for controlling output current of switching circuitry having an input circuit and an output circuit electrically isolated from each other. A value of the output current may...
7638991 System and method for providing switch size management in a DC-DC converter circuit for a RF power amplifier using an output voltage reference signal  
A system and method are disclosed for providing switch size management in a direct current to direct current (DC-DC) converter circuit for a radio frequency (RF) power amplifier. An output voltage...
7639514 Adaptive inductive power supply  
A contactless power supply has a dynamically configurable tank circuit powered by an inverter. The contactless power supply is inductively coupled to one or more loads. The inverter is connected to...
7636246 Start-up time reduction in switching regulators  
A start-up time accelerator is described for a switch controller that controls turning on or off a switch in a switching regulator. The start-up time accelerator uses the switch as a current...
7630219 DC to DC converter for decreasing switching loss according to the turn-on/turn-off state of a switch  
A direct current (DC) to DC converter is provided. The DC to DC converter includes: a transformer which comprises a primary winding which is connected in series with an input voltage and a...
7616461 Control method and circuit with indirect input voltage detection by switching current slope detection  
The present invention provides a method and a control circuit to detect an input voltage for the control and protections of a power converter. It includes a current sense circuit for generating a...
7616455 Power factor correction using current sensing on an output  
A method and apparatus for circuit conditioning, such as for providing power factor correction, is provided, using existing or minimal additional circuitry, at minimal or no additional cost to the...
7609533 Light-load efficiency improving method and apparatus for a flyback converter  
A flyback converter has a controller to switch a power switch so as to convert an input voltage to an output voltage for a load by monitoring an output voltage dependent signal and a current...
7602627 Electrical power source, operational method of the same, inverter and operational method of the same  
The present invention is an electric power source in which a plurality of inverters operate on the same frequency and the plurality of inverters are connected in parallel so that a resistance value...
7599202 DC-AC converter with feedback signal control circuit utilizing power supply voltage, controller IC therefor, and electronic apparatus utilizing the DC-AC converter  
An inverter controls the power supplied to a load such as a CCFL connected to a secondary winding of a transformer by means of pulse width modulation (PWM) control of the switches of a...
7590087 Methods for wireless data transmission between a base station and one or more transponders  
A method and device for wireless data transmission between a base station and one or more transponders, in which electromagnetic carrier waves are emitted by the base station and symbols are...
7589985 Switching Regulator  
A switching regulator is configured as a fixed-voltage regulator and contains a voltage divider. The voltage divider is supplied with a voltage signal available from a regulator output via a first...
7586770 Interconnection inverter device  
An interconnection inverter device includes a pair of capacitors connected in series to a pair of direct-current buses each connecting a direct-current power supply and the inverter; an...
7564704 Method of forming a power supply controller and structure therefor  
In one embodiment, a power supply controller is configured to switch a power switch of a power supply when a voltage across the switch is at a minimum value.
7561452 Transformer-isolated flyback converters and methods for regulating output current thereof  
A system and method for delivering regulated power and current to an output load has a flyback transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding. The secondary winding delivers stored...
7558093 Power converter with emulated peak current mode control  
A power converter includes a switch controller generating a pulse signal controlling a switch to emulate peak current mode control. The switch controller generates a control voltage from a...
7558084 Switching mode power supply with compensated propagation delay  
A switching mode power supply includes a power supply, a feedback circuit, and a switching controller. The power supply includes a main switch coupled to a primary coil of a transformer and...
7551464 Current overloading proof switch power supply and its IC  
The present invention provides a method for preventing current overloading and saturation of a switch power supply, including one of the steps of checking whether a primary current of an...
7551462 Soft switching DC-DC converter including a buck converter and a boost converter sharing a common transformer  
A soft switching DC-DC converter is provided which includes circuitry for both a buck converter and a boost converter. The buck converter circuitry and the boost converter circuitry share a common...
7551459 Zero voltage switching coupled inductor boost power converters  
The subject invention reveals a new coupled inductor boost converter which achieves zero voltage turn on switching for all four circuit switches. The coupled inductor of the circuit is fully...
7541695 Uninterruptible power supply with low power loss  
Disclosed is an uninterruptible power supply including a controller; a first switch circuit; a second switch circuit; a transformer having a first winding connected to a load and the first switch...
7542308 DC-DC converter  
A DC-DC converter is provided with a control circuit 6 which comprises a drive signal generator 11 for producing on-off signals to a control terminal of a MOS-FET 3 in synchronization with...
7542313 Induction heating apparatus capable of stably operating at least one switching element contained therein  
An induction heating apparatus capable of stably operating at least one switching element contained therein is provided with a control circuit 5 which comprises a resonance waveform detector 6 ...
7539028 Method and apparatus for fault detection in a switching power supply  
Techniques are disclosed to detect a fault in the feedback circuit of a switching power supply while the power supply operates in a mode where the output is below its regulated value. The power...
7532001 Q-boosting circuit  
Provided is a Q-boosting circuit for improving a Q factor in a radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit of a semiconductor device using a transformer instead of an inductor. The Q-boosting circuit...
7532488 DC converter  
A primary winding 5 a of a transformer T and a switch Q 1 are connected in series with a DC power source Vdc 1 . A series circuit composed of a switch Q 2 and a snubber capacitor C 3 is...
7528588 Method and circuit for limiting output voltage in a switched-mode power supply and a switched-mode power supply  
A switched-mode power supply ( 200, 300, 400 ) comprises a primary side, a secondary side and a transformer ( 103, 303, 403 ) therebetween. An output on the secondary side delivers an output...
7529105 Configuring a power converter to operate with or without burst mode functionality  
In one embodiment, a method is provided for a power converter system. The method includes: automatically configuring the power converter system to operate with burst mode functionality if a control...
7525824 Method to control a frequency converter  
A method for the control of a static frequency converter, in which an alternating voltage provided by a generator with a first frequency is first rectified in a switched rectifier, and in which the...
7515442 Secondary side controller and method therefor  
In one embodiment, a secondary side power supply controller is configured to enable a secondary side power switch independently of a state of a drive signal used to control a primary side of the...
7515444 Converter with selective current mode and voltage mode controlled switching  
A switched mode converter is disclosed that includes both voltage mode and current mode control. The switched mode converter also includes mode logic for switching between a voltage mode and a...
7515441 Switching power supply  
A switching power supply, in which a switching element turns on and off electric current flowing on the primary side of an output transformer so as to rectify and output a pulsating flow generated...
7511978 System and method for providing switching to power regulators  
System and method for providing switching to power regulators. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides system for providing switching. The system includes a first voltage supply...
7511472 Power measuring apparatus  
A power measuring apparatus including a voltage transformer, a voltage-current measuring circuit, and an operation unit is provided. The voltage transformer converts an input voltage signal into an...
7498790 Switching regulator frequency control  
A system may include a voltage controller to provide a control signal, a voltage converter to receive the control signal and to change a value of an output voltage in response to the control...
7499295 Switch mode power supply controllers  
This invention generally relates to discontinuous conduction mode switch mode power supply (SMPS) controllers employing primary side sensing. We describe an SMPS controller which integrates a...
7495938 DC voltage balance control for three-level NPC power converters with even-order harmonic elimination scheme  
Three-level inverter and rectifier power conversion systems and space vector modulation (SVM) controls having even-order harmonic elimination for neutral voltage balancing with a predefined vector...
7495410 Systems and methods for improved motor drive power factor control  
Systems and methods are described for controlling power factor in motor drives having a switching rectifier providing a DC link current to an inverter in which the rectifier gain is increased to...
7492615 Switching power supply  
A feedback circuit ( 3 ) generates an error amplification signal VEAO for stabilizing an output voltage Vo at the reference voltage. The reference voltage is set beforehand in the feedback circuit...
7492619 System and method for providing control for switch-mode power supply  
System and method for providing control for switch-mode power supply. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for regulating a power converter. The system comprises a...
7486528 Linear-predict sampling for measuring demagnetized voltage of transformer  
A linear-predict sampling circuit is developed to generate a feedback signal by detecting a demagnetized voltage of the transformer. A switching signal is generated in response to the feedback...
7483281 Multi-channel power converter with switching frequency modulation circuit for power saving  
The present invention provides a control circuit for a multi-channel power converter to save power at light load. The control circuit comprises a modulation circuit and an oscillation circuit to...
7480157 Power architecture for providing voltage modulation power  
A power architecture for providing voltage modulation power is applied to a power supply including a PFC (Power Factor Correction) unit and a transformer, and the power supply further includes a...
7477534 Off-line converter with digital control  
A DC to DC converter comprising an energy storage element comprising an energy storage element input and an energy storage element output, the energy storage element input coupled to receive a...
7471531 Programmable feedback voltage pulse sampling for switched power supplies  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus that includes a power supply having a primary coil and a secondary coil. The secondary coil generates an output voltage and a feedback voltage related to the...
7471530 Method and apparatus to reduce audio frequencies in a switching power supply  
An apparatus and method of switching a switch of a power supply are disclosed. According to aspects of the present invention, a method includes controlling a switch of a switching power supply to...
7471523 Method and apparatus for detecting demagnetizing time of magnetic device  
A detection circuit for detecting the demagnetizing time of a magnetic device is provided. An input circuit is coupled to the magnetic device for detecting a magnetizing voltage and a demagnetizing...