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公开(公告)号：US11962180B2
公开(公告)日：2024-04-16
申请号：US17220641
申请日：2021-04-01
Inventor： Emmanuel Marchais , Ross C. Morgan , Ivan Perry , Eric J. King
CPC classification number: H02J7/007 , H02M1/008 , H02J2207/20 , H02M3/04
Abstract: A power delivery system may include an inductive power converter comprising a shared connection to a shared voltage from a battery, multiple inductive phases, each of the multiple inductive phases configured to generate a respective voltage from the shared voltage, multiple regulated voltage connections, and one or more switches configured and arranged to selectively assign at least one of the multiple inductive phases to a regulated voltage connection selected from the multiple regulated voltage connections.
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公开(公告)号：US11792569B2
公开(公告)日：2023-10-17
申请号：US18101816
申请日：2023-01-26
Inventor： Anthony S. Doy , Eric J. King
IPC: H04R3/00 , H03K17/687 , H03F3/217
CPC classification number: H04R3/00 , H03K17/687 , H03F3/217
Abstract: The application describes a switched driver (401) for outputting a drive signal at an output node (402) to drive a load such as a transducer. The driver receives respective high-side and low-side voltages (VinH, VinL) defining an input voltage at first and second input nodes and has connections for first and second capacitors (403H, 403L). A network of switching paths is configured such that each of the first and second capacitors can be selectively charged to the input voltage, the first input node can be selectively coupled to a first node (N1) by a path that include or bypass the first capacitor, and the second input node can be selectively coupled to a second node (N2) by a path that includes or bypasses the second capacitor. The output node (402) can be switched between two switching voltages at the first or second nodes. The driver is selectively operable in different operating modes, where the switching voltages are different in each of said modes.
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公开(公告)号：US11770064B2
公开(公告)日：2023-09-26
申请号：US17119553
申请日：2020-12-11
Inventor： Jason W. Lawrence , Eric J. King , Graeme G. MacKay
CPC classification number: H02M1/0025 , H02M1/0016 , H02M3/1566 , H02M3/1584 , H02M3/1586 , H02M1/00 , H02M1/0009 , H02M1/15 , H02M3/04 , H02M3/157 , H02M3/1582 , H02M1/0025 , H02M1/0016
Abstract: A system for controlling a current in a power converter configured to generate an output voltage may include a control loop having a plurality of comparators, each comparator having a respective reference voltage to which the output voltage is compared, a digital controller configured to calculate one or more pre-seeded control parameters for the current, and an analog state machine configured to, based on outputs of the plurality of comparators, select control parameters for controlling the current. The control parameters may be selected from the pre-seeded control parameters, control parameters for controlling the current to have a magnitude of zero, and control parameters for controlling the current to have a maximum magnitude.
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公开(公告)号：US11296598B1
公开(公告)日：2022-04-05
申请号：US17192990
申请日：2021-03-05
Inventor： Eric J. King , Axel Thomsen , Anthony S. Doy , Thomas H. Hoff , John L. Melanson
Abstract: Driver circuitry for driving a load based on an input signal, comprising: at least one variable boost stage comprising: first and second input nodes configured to receive a first voltage and a second voltage respectively; first and second flying capacitor nodes for connection to a flying capacitor therebetween; a network of switching paths for selectively connecting the first and second input nodes with the first and second flying capacitor nodes; an output stage for selectively connecting a driver output node to each of the first and second flying capacitor nodes; and a controller operable in a first boost mode to: control the output stage to selectively connect the driver output node to the first flying capacitor node; control the network of switching paths to switch connection of the second flying capacitor node between the first and second input nodes at a controlled duty cycle; and in a first charge top-up cycle, control the network of switching paths to connect the first input node to the first flying capacitor node during a phase of the controlled duty cycle in which the first input node is connected to the second flying capacitor node; wherein the frequency of the controlled duty cycle is a greater than the frequency of the charge top-up cycle.
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公开(公告)号：US11277129B2
公开(公告)日：2022-03-15
申请号：US17314917
申请日：2021-05-07
Inventor： Axel Thomsen , Eric J. King , Anthony S. Doy , Thomas H. Hoff , John L. Melanson
IPC: H03B1/00 , H03K3/00 , H03K17/687 , H02N2/00 , H02M3/158
Abstract: This application relates to methods and apparatus for driving a transducer with switching drivers. A switching driver has first and second supply node for receiving supply voltages and includes an output bridge stage, a capacitor and a network of switches. The network of switches is operable in different switch states to provide different switching voltages to the output bridge stage. A controller is configured to control the switch state of the network of switches and a duty cycle of output switches of the output bridge stage based on an input signal to generate an output signal for driving the transducer.
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公开(公告)号：US10942610B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-09
申请号：US16831323
申请日：2020-03-26
Inventor： Siddharth Maru , Tejasvi Das , Luke Lapointe , Srdjan Marijanovic , Zhong You , Drew Kinney , Anthony S. Doy , Eric J. King
Abstract: A system may include a resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and configured to at a plurality of periodic intervals, measure phase information associated with the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and based on the phase information, determine a displacement of a mechanical member relative to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor. The system may also include a driver configured to drive the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor at a driving frequency and a driving amplitude, wherein at least one of the driving frequency and the driving amplitude varies among the plurality of periodic intervals.
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7.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10819238B1
公开(公告)日：2020-10-27
申请号：US16032625
申请日：2018-07-11
Inventor： Eric J. King , Eric B. Smith , Hasnain Akram , Sean Davis
Abstract: A power supply system and method include multiple power conversion units (PCUs) with independent power generation control and a PCU-to-PCU regulation of power, handoff control system to transfer control of power regulation to a load among the PCUs. The multiple PCUs maintain independent power generation control to collectively provide power to the load and handoff regulation of the power to the load from one PCU to another PCU. The term “handoff” refers to communication between PCUs that affects a transfer and acceptance of regulation of power control. The independent PCU power generation control with singularly located but transferable control of the regulation of power provides a flexible dynamic power supply.
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公开(公告)号：US10530303B2
公开(公告)日：2020-01-07
申请号：US15582861
申请日：2017-05-01
Inventor： Jeffrey Allen May , Eric J. King , Firas Azrai
Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a circuit having a power converter and an amplifier, wherein the power converter is configured to generate an intermediate voltage, provide the intermediate voltage as an amplifier supply voltage to the amplifier, and share the intermediate voltage with one or more additional circuits external to the circuit, wherein at least one of the one or more additional circuits is configured to generate the intermediate voltage.
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公开(公告)号：US10114392B2
公开(公告)日：2018-10-30
申请号：US15800743
申请日：2017-11-01
Inventor： Eric J. King , Christian Larsen , Aaron J. Brennan
Abstract: A method of increasing a multiplication ratio of a charge pump, the multiplication ratio defining a relationship between an output voltage of the charge pump and an input voltage of the charge pump, comprising: analyzing a first efficiency of the charge pump when the multiplication ratio is at a first ratio, calculating a second efficiency of the charge pump when the multiplication ratio is a second ratio lesser than the first ratio, and based on the first efficiency and the second efficiency, determining at least one of a target output power and a target output voltage at which to change the multiplication ratio from the second ratio to the first ratio.
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公开(公告)号：US09906196B2
公开(公告)日：2018-02-27
申请号：US15270631
申请日：2016-09-20
Inventor： Zhaohui He , Eric J. King , Siddharth Maru , John L. Melanson
CPC classification number: H03F3/217 , H03F1/04 , H03F1/34 , H03F3/185 , H03F3/2171 , H03F3/2173 , H03F3/45475 , H03F2200/351 , H03F2200/432 , H03F2203/45034 , H04R3/12 , H04R2420/03
Abstract: A switching power stage for producing a load voltage may include a first processing path having a first output, a second processing path having a second output, a first plurality of switches comprising at least a first switch coupled between the first output and a first load terminal and a second switch coupled between the first output and the second load terminal, a second plurality of switches comprising at least a third switch coupled between the second output and the first load terminal and a fourth switch coupled between the second output and the second load terminal, and a controller configured to control switches in order to generate the load voltage as a function of an input signal such that one of the first switch and the second switch operates in a linear region of operation and one of the third switch and the fourth switch operates in a saturated region of operation for a predominance of a dynamic rage of the load voltage.
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