Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Half-bridge driver circuit with a switched capacitor supply voltage for high side drive signal generation
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Application No.: US16924410Application Date: 2020-07-09
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Publication No.: US11323031B2Publication Date: 2022-05-03
- Inventor: Alberto Cattani , Alessandro Gasparini
- 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: IT102019000011544 20190711
- Main IPC: H02M3/158
- IPC: H02M3/158 ; H02M1/08 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
First and second FETs of a half-bridge are series connected between first and second terminals and are gate driven, respectively, by first and second drivers. An inductance is connected to the intermediate node of the half-bridge. Power supply for the second driver circuit is a supply voltage generated by a voltage regulator as a function of the voltage between the first and the second terminal. Power supply for the first driver circuit is a supply voltage generated by a bootstrap capacitor having a first terminal connected via a first switch to receive the supply voltage output from the voltage regulator and a second terminal connected to the intermediate node. The first terminal of the bootstrap capacitor is further connected by a second switch to receive a second supply voltage. A control circuit generates control signals for the first and second driver circuits and the first and second switches.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210013808A1 HALF-BRIDGE DRIVER CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2021-01-14
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