Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voltage compatible charge pump buck and buck power supplies
- Patent Title (中): 电压兼容电荷泵降压和降压电源
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Application No.: US13226831Application Date: 2011-09-07
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Publication No.: US09214865B2Publication Date: 2015-12-15
- Inventor: Chris Levesque , Jean-Christophe Berchtold , Joseph Hubert Colles , Robert Deuchars , William David Southcombe , David Zimlich , David E. Jones , Scott Yoder , Terry J. Stockert
- Applicant: Chris Levesque , Jean-Christophe Berchtold , Joseph Hubert Colles , Robert Deuchars , William David Southcombe , David Zimlich , David E. Jones , Scott Yoder , Terry J. Stockert
- Applicant Address: US NC Greensboro
- Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Greensboro
- Agency: Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: G05F1/00
- IPC: G05F1/00 ; H02M3/158 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F3/195 ; H03F3/21 ; H03F3/24 ; H02M3/07 ; H04B1/04

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a flexible direct current (DC)-DC converter, which includes a charge pump buck power supply and a buck power supply. The charge pump buck power supply and the buck power supply are voltage compatible with one another at respective output inductance nodes to provide flexibility. In one embodiment of the DC-DC converter, capacitances at the output inductance nodes are at least partially isolated from one another by using at least an isolating inductive element between the output inductance nodes to increase efficiency. In an alternate embodiment of the DC-DC converter, the output inductance nodes are coupled to one another, such that the charge pump buck power supply and the buck power supply share a first inductive element, thereby eliminating the isolating inductive element, which reduces size and cost but may also reduce efficiency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120062205A1 VOLTAGE COMPATIBLE CHARGE PUMP BUCK AND BUCK POWER SUPPLIES Public/Granted day:2012-03-15
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