- Patent Title: Ultrasound lens cleaner driver with frequency selectable oscillator
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Application No.: US14799309Application Date: 2015-07-14
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Publication No.: US09667191B2Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: Yunhong Li , Wei Ma
- 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 John R. Pessetto; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H03B5/12
- IPC: H03B5/12 ; H04N5/225 ; G02B27/00

Abstract:
A frequency selectable driver circuit (driver circuit) includes a current drive transistor between a first and second node for driving a frequency selectable oscillator (FSO) coupled therebetween that includes a first LC network including an inductor L2 and a capacitor C2 in series and a second LC network in series with the first LC network. The second LC network includes a capacitor bank including capacitors in parallel including switches for switching (selectable capacitors) and an inductor L3 in parallel to the capacitor bank. Values of L2 and C2 provide a low frequency point fL which the LC network is overall capacitive, and in a frequency range between fa and fb above fL with only a portion of selectable capacitors selected a capacitance of the capacitor bank and value of L3 results in an overall impedance for the second LC network that is capacitive between fa and fb and inductive elsewhere.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170019065A1 ULTRASOUND LENS CLEANER DRIVER WITH FREQUENCY SELECTABLE OSCILLATOR Public/Granted day:2017-01-19
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