Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Load drive control device
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Application No.: US14769295Application Date: 2013-12-13
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Publication No.: US09780773B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Takahiro Kawata , Ryoichi Oura , Masahito Sonehara , Yoshitaka Abe , Takeo Yamashita
- Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hitachinaka-shi
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2013-038121 20130228
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/083410 WO 20131213
- International Announcement: WO2014/132523 WO 20140904
- Main IPC: H03B1/00
- IPC: H03B1/00 ; H03K17/16 ; H03K17/08 ; H03K3/012 ; H03K3/013

Abstract:
Provided is a load drive slope control device that can reduce EMI noise, and power loss and heat generation when a drive transistor is turned on and off, and can prevent excessive high temperature-induced damage to the drive transistor at an excessive high temperature. Disclosed is a load drive control device including: a drive transistor that drives a load; a pre-driver that drives the drive transistor via an ON/OFF control terminal of the drive transistor; a capacitor that is connected to an input side of the pre-driver, a first current source that is ON/OFF controlled by a first signal, and generates current which is charged to the capacitor; and a second current source that is ON/OFF controlled by a second signal, and generates current for discharging the capacitor, in which an output voltage from the pre-driver is changed by charging or discharging the capacitor, the drive transistor is turned on and off by the output voltage from the pre-driver, and a linear ascending gradient and a linear descending gradient of the waveform of a voltage driving the load are obtained by turning on and off the drive transistor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150381159A1 Load Drive Control Device Public/Granted day:2015-12-31
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