Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Variable resistance power switch feedback
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Application No.: US15812175Application Date: 2017-11-14
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Publication No.: US10432186B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Shuitao Yang , Yan Zhou , Lihua Chen , Fan Xu , Mohammed Khorshed Alam , Baoming Ge
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Agent David B. Kelley
- Main IPC: H03K3/012
- IPC: H03K3/012 ; H03K17/082 ; H02M7/5395 ; H02P27/08 ; B60K6/22 ; B60R16/00

Abstract:
A vehicle powertrain has a power inverter that includes a load switch with a main emitter and a current mirror emitter, a variable resistor coupled between the current mirror emitter and the main emitter, and a controller. The controller may be configured to adjust a gate voltage based on a voltage across the variable resistor, and responsive to the gate voltage exceeding a Miller plateau gate voltage, increase a variable resistor resistance such that feedback increases as the load switch saturates.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190149145A1 VARIABLE RESISTANCE POWER SWITCH FEEDBACK Public/Granted day:2019-05-16
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