Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pulse generator circuit, related system and method
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Application No.: US17360381Application Date: 2021-06-28
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Publication No.: US11894657B2Publication Date: 2024-02-06
- Inventor: Romeo Letor , Vanni Poletto , Antoine Pavlin , Nadia Lecci , Alfio Russo
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS , STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: FR Rousset
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.,STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.,STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza; FR Rousset
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Priority: IT 2020000016396 2020.07.07
- Main IPC: H01S5/062
- IPC: H01S5/062 ; H03K5/07 ; H01S5/026

Abstract:
An embodiment pulse generator circuit comprises a first electronic switch coupled between first and second nodes, and a second electronic switch coupled between the second node and a reference node. An LC resonant circuit comprising an inductance and a capacitance is coupled between the first and reference nodes along with charge circuitry comprises a further inductance in a current flow line between a supply node and an intermediate node in the LC resonant circuit. Drive circuitry of the electronic switches repeats, during a sequence of switching cycles, charge time intervals, wherein the capacitance in the LC resonant circuit is charged via the charge circuit, and pulse generation time intervals, wherein a pulsed current is provided to the load via the first and second nodes. The charge and pulse generation time intervals are interleaved with oscillation time intervals where the LC resonant circuit oscillates at a resonance frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220013984A1 PULSE GENERATOR CIRCUIT, RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2022-01-13
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