- Patent Title: Energy scavenging interface with impedance matching, method for impedance matching of the energy scavenging interface, and energy scavenging system using the energy scavenging interface
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Application No.: US15132958Application Date: 2016-04-19
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Publication No.: US10211722B2Publication Date: 2019-02-19
- Inventor: Stefano Ramorini , Alessandro Gasparini , Alberto Cattani
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Crowe & Dunlevy
- Priority: ITTO2015A0234 20150429
- Main IPC: H02M3/04
- IPC: H02M3/04 ; H02J50/10 ; H02J7/02

Abstract:
An energy harvesting interface receives an electrical signal from an inductive transducer and outputs a supply signal. An input branch includes a first switch and a second switch connected in series between a first input terminal and an output terminal, and further a third switch and a fourth switch connected in series between a second input terminal and the output terminal. A first electrical-signal-detecting device coupled across the second switch detects a first threshold value of an electric storage current in the inductor of the transducer. A second electrical-signal-detecting device coupled across the fourth switch detects whether the electric supply current that flows through the fourth switch reaches a second threshold value lower than the first threshold value.
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