HARDWARE AND METHODS FOR VOLTAGE AND CURRENT SENSING

    公开(公告)号:US20230275508A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-31

    申请号:US17680666

    申请日:2022-02-25

    IPC分类号: H02M3/07 H02M1/00 H02M3/158

    CPC分类号: H02M3/07 H02M1/0009 H02M3/158

    摘要: Disclosed herein is a wireless power reception system that utilizes a switched capacitor DC-DC voltage converter to charge a load. Current sensing circuits described herein enable the measurement of the input current to the switched capacitor DC-DC voltage converter while being relatively insensitive to temperature variation. Voltage/current sensing circuits described herein enable the selective measurement of load voltage, high side load current, and low side load current. One of the current sensing circuits may be used together with one of the voltage/current sensing circuits in a single device, or the current sensing circuits and voltage/current sensing circuits may be used separately in different devices.

    FOREIGN OBJECTION DETECTION SENSING CIRCUIT FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20220103019A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-31

    申请号:US17408824

    申请日:2021-08-23

    IPC分类号: H02J50/60 H02J50/12

    摘要: A wireless power circuit operable in transceiver mode and in Q-factor measurement mode includes a bridge rectifier having first and second inputs coupled to first and second terminals of a coil, and an output coupled to a rectified node. An excitation circuit coupled to the first terminal, in Q-factor measurement mode, drives the coil with a pulsed signal. A protection circuit couples the first terminal to a first node when in Q-factor measurement mode and decouples the first terminal when in transceiver mode. A controller causes the bridge rectifier to short the first and second terminals to ground during Q-factor measurement mode. A sensing circuit amplifies voltage at the first node to produce an output voltage, and in response to the voltage at the first node rising to cross a rising threshold voltage, digitizes the output voltage. The digitized output voltage is used in calculating a Q-factor of the coil.

    HIGH ACCURACY LOW TEMPERATURE DRIFT HIGH-SIDE CURRENT SENSING HARDWARE AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220091164A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-24

    申请号:US17492210

    申请日:2021-10-01

    IPC分类号: G01R19/25 H02J50/12

    摘要: A circuit includes a tank capacitor coupled between first and second nodes, and a sense resistor having a first terminal coupled to the first node and a second terminal coupled to a regulator input. A switching circuit has first and second inputs coupled to the first and second terminals of the sense resistor. A gain stage has first and second inputs capacitively coupled to first and second outputs of the switching circuit. An analog-to-digital converter receives the output of the gain stage, and receives first and second differential voltages. A reference voltage generator has a temperature independent current source coupled to source current to a reference resistor, the first differential reference voltage being formed across the reference resistor. The reference resistor and sense resistor are located sufficiently close to one another on a single common substrate such that they remain at substantially a same temperature.

    CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR MEASURING POWER DISSIPATION IN A RECTIFIER

    公开(公告)号:US20210088567A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-25

    申请号:US17016963

    申请日:2020-09-10

    摘要: A receiver circuit includes a rectifier operable in full-, half-synchronous and asynchronous modes. A measurement circuit, with method, provides for real-time power measurement within the rectifier. The measurements are made based on the average output current from the rectifier delivered to the load and measurements sampled over time of the instantaneous voltage at each input/output node of the rectifier. Equivalent resistance in the rectifier is determined from the measurements and power dissipation calculated from the determined equivalent resistance and the average output current. The instantaneous voltages are synchronously captured through high-voltage AC coupling in order to detect the voltage drop across each element of the rectifier. The sensed voltages are amplified in the low voltage domain and converted by a high-speed analog-to-digital converter in order to produce data useful in computing equivalent resistance values. From these values, power dissipation within the rectifier is calculated and real-time equivalent resistance is available.