Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for current sensing and current limiting
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Application No.: US16517019Application Date: 2019-07-19
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Publication No.: US11239656B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Roy Alan Hastings
- 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 Michelle F. Murray; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H02H9/02
- IPC: H02H9/02 ; H02H1/00 ; G01R19/165

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for current sensing and current limiting. An example apparatus includes a first main transistor including a first main transistor gate terminal coupled between an output terminal and an intermediate node; a second main transistor including a second main transistor gate terminal coupled between the intermediate node and a ground terminal; a first amplifier including a first amplifier output coupled to the first main transistor gate terminal; a second amplifier including a second amplifier output coupled to the second main transistor gate terminal; and a third amplifier including a third amplifier inverting input coupled to the intermediate node, a third amplifier non-inverting input coupled to a sense transistor, and a third amplifier output coupled to a third gate terminal of a third transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210021122A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CURRENT SENSING AND CURRENT LIMITING Public/Granted day:2021-01-21
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