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公开(公告)号:US11984504B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-14
申请号:US17538238
申请日:2021-11-30
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Henry Litzmann Edwards , Andres Arturo Blanco , Orlando Lazaro
CPC classification number: H01L29/7826 , H01L29/66681
Abstract: IC apparatus, and manufacturing methods therefor, that include a power transistor and a thermoelectric device. The power transistor is constructed in a plurality of layers formed over a semiconductor substrate. The thermoelectric device is formed in one or more of the plurality of layers and is sensitive to temperature differences within the IC apparatus resulting from operation of the power transistor.
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公开(公告)号:US20230335547A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-19
申请号:US18192956
申请日:2023-03-30
Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Inventor: Orlando Lazaro , John Russell Broze , Timothy Bryan Merkin
IPC: H01L27/06 , H01L27/088 , H03K17/687
CPC classification number: H01L27/0629 , H01L27/088 , H03K17/6872
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to biasing an isolation region in a semiconductor substrate. In an example, an integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, a first rectifying device, and a second rectifying device. The semiconductor substrate has a first region, a second region, and a third region each being an opposite conductivity type from the semiconductor substrate. The first region and the second region are respective current terminals of a transistor. The first rectifying device has a first positive terminal and a first negative terminal. The first positive terminal is coupled to the first region, and the first negative terminal is coupled to the third region. The second rectifying device has a second positive terminal and a second negative terminal. The second positive terminal is coupled to a ground terminal, and the second negative terminal is coupled to the third region.
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公开(公告)号:US11515839B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-29
申请号:US17087356
申请日:2020-11-02
Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Inventor: Orlando Lazaro
Abstract: A system includes a power receiver including an oscillator with a first coil and a second coil. The oscillator includes a first field effect transistor (FET) having first gate, first source, and first drain terminals, the first drain terminal coupled to the first coil, the first coil adapted to be inductively coupled to a third coil in a power transmitter. The oscillator also includes a first capacitor coupled to the first coil. The oscillator includes a second FET having second gate, second source, and second drain terminals, the second gate terminal coupled to the first capacitor, the second source terminal coupled to the first source terminal, and the second drain terminal coupled to the second coil, the second coil adapted to be inductively coupled to a fourth coil in the power transmitter. The oscillator includes a second capacitor coupled to the first gate terminal and coupled to the second coil.
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公开(公告)号:US11502619B1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-15
申请号:US17389926
申请日:2021-07-30
Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Inventor: Orlando Lazaro , Yogesh Kumar Ramadass , Nan Xing
Abstract: A method includes charging a capacitor of a power inverter to a direct current (DC) input voltage provided at an input terminal of the power inverter. The capacitor has a first terminal and a second terminal. The method also includes providing a first voltage at an output terminal of the power inverter at a first time by controlling one of either a set of input switches configured to selectively couple the first and second terminals to either the input terminal or to a ground terminal, or an output switch configured to selectively couple the output terminal to either the first terminal or the second terminal. The method further includes providing a second voltage at the output terminal at a second time by controlling the other of the set of input switches and the output switch.
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公开(公告)号:US11362587B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-14
申请号:US15858640
申请日:2017-12-29
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Orlando Lazaro , Kevin Scoones , Alvaro Aguilar , Jeffrey Anthony Morroni , Sombuddha Chakraborty
Abstract: In described examples of methods and control circuitry to control a multi-level power conversion system, the control circuitry generates PWM signals having a duty cycle to control an output signal. The duty cycle is adjustable in different switching cycles. States of the system's switches are adjustable in one or more intervals within the switching cycles. In response to a voltage across a capacitor of the system being outside a non-zero voltage range, the control circuitry adjusts states of the switches in two intervals to discharge or charge the capacitor in a given switching cycle.
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公开(公告)号:US11101735B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-24
申请号:US16584610
申请日:2019-09-26
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Kevin Scoones , Orlando Lazaro , Alvaro Aguilar , Jeffrey Anthony Morroni , Reza Sharifi , Saurav Bandyopadhyay
Abstract: In a described example, an apparatus includes a first switch coupled between a terminal for receiving an input voltage and a top plate node, and having a first control terminal; a second switch coupled between the top plate node and a switching node, and having a second control terminal; a third switch coupled between the switching node and a bottom plate node and having a third control terminal; a fourth switch coupled between the bottom plate node and a ground terminal, and having a fourth control terminal; a flying capacitor coupled between the top plate node and the bottom plate node; a fifth switch coupled between the top plate node and an auxiliary node; a sixth switch coupled between the auxiliary node and the bottom plate node; and an auxiliary capacitor coupled between the auxiliary control terminal and a ground terminal.
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公开(公告)号:US10778099B1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-15
申请号:US16520015
申请日:2019-07-23
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Austin James Womac , Siew Kuok Hoon , Orlando Lazaro
Abstract: A device includes a power converter having an input coupled to a first node and an output coupled to an output terminal adapted to couple to a battery. A blocking transistor is coupled between a second node and the first node. A regulator has inputs coupled to the first node and the second node and an output coupled to a control node of the blocking transistor. The regulator is configured to control the blocking transistor to regulate a voltage drop across the blocking transistor based on a voltage between the first node and the second node. The regulator is also configured to turn off the blocking transistor in response to a voltage at the first node exceeding a voltage at the second node by at least a threshold to block boost-back current flowing from the output terminal to the second node.
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公开(公告)号:US10651736B1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-12
申请号:US16233189
申请日:2018-12-27
Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Inventor: Orlando Lazaro , Alvaro Aguilar , Jeffrey Morroni , Kevin Scoones , Reza Sharifi
Abstract: A power converter device includes a set of switches configured to switch between at least three input-side voltage levels to provide output pulses. The power converter device also includes a control circuit for the set of switches, wherein the control circuit configured to selectively switch the power converter device between a continuous conduction mode of operation (CCM) having a first charge per pulse and a discontinuous conduction mode of operation (DCM) having a second charge per pulse, the second charge per pulse being greater than the first charge per pulse.
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公开(公告)号:US10439494B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-08
申请号:US15909078
申请日:2018-03-01
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Reza Sharifi , Kevin Scoones , Orlando Lazaro , Alvaro Aguilar
Abstract: In described examples of methods and control circuitry to control a power conversion system, a regulator circuit is coupled to provide switching control signals according to a regulation signal to operate a plurality of converter switches to generate a voltage signal at a switching node. A compensation sense circuit is coupled to provide a compensation pulse signal having a duty cycle that represents a percentage of time that a current flowing through the switching node is above a threshold value. A current compensation circuit adjusts the regulation signal according to the compensation pulse signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20190058405A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-21
申请号:US15858648
申请日:2017-12-29
Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventor: Orlando Lazaro , Kevin Scoones , Jeffrey Anthony Morroni , Alvaro Aguilar , Reza Sharifi
CPC classification number: H02M3/33569 , G05F1/575 , H02M1/08 , H02M3/06 , H02M3/158 , H02M2001/0003 , H02M2001/0009 , H03K7/08
Abstract: In described examples of methods and control circuitry to control a multi-level power conversion system with a flying capacitor, a power circuit regulates a regulator input voltage signal to provide a supply voltage signal to the control circuitry. A power switching circuit couples the regulator input to a first terminal of the flying capacitor in response to a second terminal of the flying capacitor being coupled to a reference voltage node in a given switching cycle, and couples the regulator input to the second terminal in response to the first terminal being coupled to an input node of the power conversion system in the given switching cycle.
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