Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Over-voltage clamp circuit
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Application No.: US15916979Application Date: 2018-03-09
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Publication No.: US10312899B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Subrato Roy , Dattatreya Baragur Suryanarayana
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Tuenlap Chan; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Priority: IN201741008245 20170309
- Main IPC: H03K17/082
- IPC: H03K17/082 ; H03K17/687 ; H02M3/337 ; H02M3/335

Abstract:
An apparatus includes an output transistor device configured to control an output voltage of an output node in response to a control signal and an input voltage. A current sensor is configured to sense an output current supplied from the output node. A feedback converter is configured to convert the sensed output current to a feedback signal that tracks the output voltage of the output node. The feedback converter is further configured to set a clamping threshold. A gate control circuit is configured to generate the control signal in response to the feedback signal. The gate control circuit is configured to clamp the output voltage of the output node via the control signal based on the clamping threshold.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180262188A1 OVER-VOLTAGE CLAMP CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2018-09-13
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