Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capacitor balanced driver circuit for dual input charger
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Application No.: US16664417Application Date: 2019-10-25
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Publication No.: US10778029B2Publication Date: 2020-09-15
- Inventor: Siew Hoon , Kevin Scoones , Jairo D. Olivares , Kai Zhu
- 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 Mark Allen Valetti; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H02J7/00
- IPC: H02J7/00 ; H03K17/687 ; H03K19/0185 ; H03K17/06 ; H03K17/12 ; H02M3/00

Abstract:
A driver circuit includes two high-side switches and a single low-side switch, output inductor, and output capacitor. By having multiple high-side switches, the driver can regulate power from multiple charging devices. The high-side switches share a channel with an input capacitor for that channel and the channels are connected to the low-side switch at a common node. When the capacitor for one of the channels becomes charged quickly, the capacitor of the other channel will balance itself with the charged capacitor. To avoid damaging the high-side switches, a low-impedance bridge and driver circuit is connected between the channels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200059109A1 CAPACITOR BALANCED DRIVER CIRCUIT FOR DUAL INPUT CHARGER Public/Granted day:2020-02-20
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