Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Load current measurement
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Application No.: US15458734Application Date: 2017-03-14
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Publication No.: US10439510B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Peter Christiaans , Robert Glenn Crosby, II , Fu Chun Zhan
- Applicant: NXP B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: NXP B.V.
- Current Assignee: NXP B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: CN201610143118 20160314
- Main IPC: G01R15/16
- IPC: G01R15/16 ; H02M7/219 ; G01R19/00 ; H02J7/00 ; H02J7/02 ; H02J7/04 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
In an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a bridge rectifier circuit having branches between the AC and DC nodes formed by a set of transistors. A load current measurement circuit includes a current-controlled current source coupled to the bridge rectifier circuit. The current control current source is configured to generate a mirrored current that is a scaled version of a current through at least one of the set of transistors. A current integration circuit is configured to integrate the mirrored current by charging a capacitor with the scaled current in a first mode and discharging the capacitor in a second mode. A sample and hold circuit is configured to set an output node to a voltage equal to a voltage stored by the capacitor in response to the current integration circuit entering the second mode and prior to the discharge of the capacitor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170264211A1 LOAD CURRENT MEASUREMENT Public/Granted day:2017-09-14
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