摘要:
A power circuit includes a high-side transistor, a low-side transistor and a current sensing resistor in series connection as well as a threshold detection circuit for turning off the transistors when the current in the current sensing resistor exceeds a predetermined level. The circuit further includes a driver circuit for providing a bias voltage to the low-side transistor and a voltage storing device, such as a capacitor, coupled from the low-side transistor to the driver circuit to maintain the bias voltage at a sufficient magnitude to momentarily keep the low-side transistor on during a fault condition.
摘要:
A protection circuit for preventing momentary activation of the output of an output-isolated driver during power turn on. The protection circuit operates in a manner which prevents a buffer which is driven by the opto-isolator from turning on power transistors during power turn on, particularly in applications such as switching power supplies, motor controllers and the like.
摘要:
A semiconductor package that includes two semiconductor die each disposed on a respective die pad and a large tracking distance interposed between at least two leads of the package for better creepage characteristics.
摘要:
An audio amplifier assembly that includes a semiconductor package having a semiconductor power die tuned for class D amplifier applications and a conductive clip used for low inductance integration into the amplifier circuit.
摘要:
In a motor controller circuit, an integrated circuit driver drives a plurality of switching transistors which are organized along a top rail and a bottom rail. To reduce the conduction of current through the parasitic diode D.sub.S1 of the integrated circuit, the switching transistors at the bottom rail are provided with individual Kelvin emitter connections, which reduce the parasitic internal inductances, which otherwise produce highly negative voltages when the top rail transistors are turned off. Further, individual traces are provided on the printed circuit board from the COM terminal to the Kelvin emitters. Finally, a small resistance is provided in series with each Kelvin emitter connection which increases the resistance in series with the parasitic diodes and hence reduces the current flowing in the parasitic diodes.
摘要:
A reverse battery protection circuit comprising a first controlled semiconductor switch for providing current to a load and coupled in series with load terminals across which load terminals the load is adapted to be connected and a second controlled semiconductor switch disposed in a series circuit with a free wheeling diode, the series circuit being coupled across the load terminals.
摘要:
A semiconductor module has a conductive heat sink base which receives a power semiconductor and a printed circuit board mounted above the heat sink and carrying control circuits for the power semiconductor. A rigid L-shaped terminal connected to one electrode of the power semiconductor is mounted on the base and extends upward and adjacent an edge of the printed circuit board. A Hall sensor is mounted on the printed circuit board and is disposed in and intercepts the magnetic field produced by current in the terminal. Magnetic bodies are mounted on opposite sides of the Hall element to concentrate the magnetic field through the Hall sensor.
摘要:
A liquid cooled electronic device and a method for sealing a liquid cooled electronic device are disclosed. The liquid cooled electronic device has at least one heat generating electronic device suspended in an electrically insulative heat transfer fluid. The heat generating device or devices are electrically connected to at least two electrodes, which pass through and are sealed in electrically insulating portion of a sealed housing that encloses the electrically insulative heat transfer fluid. At least one thermally conductive surface is in direct contact with the electrically insulative heat transfer fluid, and at least one thermally conductive surface is sealed to the remainder of the housing, for example.
摘要:
A circuit for recovering a signal of interest which is offset by a common mode displacement, such is the case when the signal is the voltage across a current sense resistor located on the high side bus or between the switches of a motor controller circuit. The circuit of the present invention converts the voltage across the resistor into a pulse code modulated data, then downshifts the voltage, and then recovers the signal of interest at the lower voltage by demodulating the signal. The recovered signal is then processed, either with a synchronized sample and hold circuit to provide an analog output, or with a counter and latch to provide a digital output.
摘要:
In a level shifted high voltage MOSgate device driver which drives MOSgate devices such as IGBTs and power MOSFETs, effects of negative voltage swings caused by currents commutating through L.sub.S1 and L.sub.S2 inductances in the power circuits are avoided due to several measures. First, the values of the inductances L.sub.S1 and L.sub.S2 are reduced by keeping short conductor lengths, by other layout/wire bonding techniques to reduce the values of the L.sub.S1 and L.sub.S2 inductances. The external, charging capacitor C.sub.b value is increased substantially to reduce the voltage buildup on the internal circuitry. A typical value is 0.47 .mu.F, for a given circuit, IGBT and layout combination. The size of the C.sub.VCC capacitor is selected to keep the supply voltage as stiff as possible. Preferably, C.sub.VCC is at about ten times the value of the sum of the C.sub.b capacitance in the circuit. The resistance R.sub.b in the bootstrap path is reduced as much as possible, preferably to zero. Finally, a resistor R.sub.COM is optionally added between the common nodes of the driver circuit and the power device circuit.