Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Brown-out protection circuit for a switching converter and method for controlling a switching converter
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Application No.: US17020184Application Date: 2020-09-14
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Publication No.: US11418107B2Publication Date: 2022-08-16
- Inventor: Alfio Pasqua , Salvatore Tumminaro , Igor Lisciandra
- 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: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Priority: IT102019000017312 20190927
- Main IPC: H02H3/247
- IPC: H02H3/247 ; H02M1/32 ; G01R19/165 ; H02H3/20 ; H02M3/335 ; H03K5/24 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
In an embodiment, a brown-out protection circuit includes: a monitoring terminal; a threshold generator supplying a threshold voltage; a comparator to compare a monitoring voltage at the monitoring terminal and the threshold voltage; and a logic module supplying an enable signal having a brown-in logic value and a brown-out logic value. When the enable signal is at the brown-out logic value, the logic module checks transition conditions, relating to a number of usable transitions of the monitoring voltage from lower to greater than the threshold voltage, and time conditions, relating to permanence of the monitoring voltage above the threshold voltage after a usable transition or in an aggregated manner after a plurality of consecutive usable transitions. The logic module sets the enable signal to the brown-in logic value when the transition conditions or the time conditions are met.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210099074A1 BROWN-OUT PROTECTION CIRCUIT FOR A SWITCHING CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SWITCHING CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2021-04-01
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