Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Temperature sensing circuits
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Application No.: US14569861Application Date: 2014-12-15
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Publication No.: US10001413B2Publication Date: 2018-06-19
- Inventor: Woo-Seok Kim
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Myers Bigel, P.A.
- Priority: KR10-2014-0005724 20140116
- Main IPC: G01K7/00
- IPC: G01K7/00 ; G01K7/01

Abstract:
Temperature sensing circuits are provided. The temperature sensing circuits may include a temperature sensing unit and a buffer unit. The temperature sensing unit may include a transistor that has a first pair of terminals having a first PN junction of the transistor therebetween and a second pair of terminals having a second PN junction of the transistor therebetween. The first pair of terminals are connected together. The temperature sensing unit may output a first temperature sensing voltage comprising a voltage between the second pair of terminals at a first node. The buffer unit may be connected to the first node. The buffer unit may have a cascode follower structure and may output a second temperature sensing voltage that has a magnitude proportional to a magnitude of the first temperature sensing voltage at a second node.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150198485A1 TEMPERATURE SENSING CIRCUITS Public/Granted day:2015-07-16
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