METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING WIRELESS CHARGING RECEIVERS

    公开(公告)号:US20210367456A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US16878782

    申请日:2020-05-20

    Inventor: Michal Toula

    Abstract: A wireless charging receiver includes a controller configured to determine that a first overvoltage threshold is met and based thereon enable a first switch to couple an output of a rectifier to electrical ground through a first resistor, to determine that a second overvoltage threshold is met and based thereon enable receive resonant circuit switches to short circuit a receive resonant circuit, to determine that a hysteresis threshold is met and based thereon disable the receive resonant circuit switches to open circuit the receive resonant circuit, and to determine that a hysteresis cycle threshold is met and that the receive resonant circuit switches are disabled and based thereon enable the second switch to couple the second resistor to the electrical ground and to communicate to wireless charging transmitter to decrease the power level on wireless charging receiver side.

    CIRCUIT EMPLOYING MOSFETS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20210328563A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-21

    申请号:US17362276

    申请日:2021-06-29

    Inventor: Sandor PETENYI

    Abstract: A MOSFET has a current conduction path between source and drain terminals. A gate terminal of the MOSFET receives an input signal to facilitate current conduction in the current conduction path as a result of a gate-to-source voltage reaching a threshold voltage. A body terminal of the MOSFET is coupled to body voltage control circuitry that is sensitive to the voltage at the gate terminal of the MOSFET. The body voltage control circuitry responds to a reduction in the voltage at the gate terminal of the MOSFET by increasing the body voltage of the MOSFET at the body terminal of the MOSFET. As a result, there is reduction in the threshold voltage. The circuit configuration is applicable to amplifier circuits, comparator circuits and current mirror circuits.

    PROCESSING SYSTEM COMPRISING A QUEUED SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE, RELATED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DEVICE AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20210303504A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17199418

    申请日:2021-03-11

    Abstract: An embodiment processing system comprises a queued SPI circuit, which comprises a hardware SPI communication interface, an arbiter and a plurality of interface circuits. Each interface circuit comprises a transmission FIFO memory, a reception FIFO memory and an interface control circuit. The interface control circuit is configured to receive first data packets and store them to the transmission FIFO memory. The interface control circuit sequentially reads the first data packets from the transmission FIFO memory, extracts at least one transmission data word, and provides the extracted word to the arbiter. The interface control circuit receives from the arbiter a reception data word and stores second data packets comprising the received reception data word to the reception FIFO memory. The interface control circuit sequentially reads the second data packets from the reception FIFO memory and transmits them to the digital processing circuit.

    Voltage regulator with controlled current consumption in dropout mode

    公开(公告)号:US10788848B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-29

    申请号:US16285330

    申请日:2019-02-26

    Inventor: Sandor Petenyi

    Abstract: An amplifier stage of an LDO regulator circuit includes an amplifier stage that generates a drive signal in response to a first voltage difference an output voltage of the LDO regulator circuit and a reference voltage. A drive stage having a quiescent current consumption is configured to generate a control signal in response to the drive signal. The control signal is applied to the control terminal of a power transistor. A dropout detector senses whether the LDO regulator circuit is operating in closed loop regulation mode or in open loop dropout mode by sensing a second difference in voltage between the drive signal and the control signal. A quiescent current limiter circuit responds to the sensed second difference by controlling the quiescent current consumption of the drive stage, and in particular limiting current consumption when the LDO regulator circuit is operating in the open loop dropout mode.

    COMMUNICATION METHOD AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM AND DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20190294572A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-26

    申请号:US16360229

    申请日:2019-03-21

    Abstract: A device includes a master device, a set of slave devices and a bus. The master device is configured to transmit first messages carrying a set of operation data message portions indicative of operations for implementation by slave devices of the set of slave devices, and second messages addressed to slave devices in the set of slave devices. The second messages convey identifiers identifying respective ones of the slave devices to which the second messages are addressed requesting respective reactions towards the master device within respective expected reaction intervals. The slave devices are configured to receive the first messages transmitted from the master device, read respective operation data message portions in the set of operation data message portions, implement respective operations as a function of the respective operation data message portions read, and receive the second messages transmitted from the master device.

    VOLTAGE REGULATOR WITH DROPOUT DETECTOR AND BIAS CURRENT LIMITER AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20170102724A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-04-13

    申请号:US14881498

    申请日:2015-10-13

    Inventor: Sandor PETENYI

    CPC classification number: G05F1/575

    Abstract: A voltage regulator includes an input terminal to receive an input voltage, an output terminal to supply an output voltage, a power transistor, a differential amplifier, a driver, a dropout detector and a bias current limiter. The differential amplifier provides a drive signal based on a difference between a voltage reference and a feedback signal corresponding to the output voltage. The driver includes an impedance device, and a driver transistor that receives the drive signal so as to vary a bias current to a control terminal of the power transistor. The dropout detector and the bias current limiter is coupled to the input terminal, the impedance device, and the output terminal and includes first and second transistors coupled together, and a bias current generator coupled to the second transistor.

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