Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voltage converter with VCC-less RDSon current sensing circuit
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Application No.: US15275005Application Date: 2016-09-23
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Publication No.: US09837904B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Thomas J. Ribarich
- Applicant: Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.
- Applicant Address: US CA El Segundo
- Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AMERICAS CORP.
- Current Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AMERICAS CORP.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA El Segundo
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Main IPC: H02M3/158
- IPC: H02M3/158 ; G01R19/00 ; G01R31/40 ; H02M3/155 ; H03K17/082 ; H02M1/088 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
In one implementation, a voltage converter includes a driver providing a gate drive for a power switch and a sense circuit coupled across the power switch. The gate drive provides power to the sense circuit, and the sense circuit provides a sense output to the driver corresponding to a current through the power switch. In one implementation, the sense circuit includes a high voltage (HV) sense transistor coupled between a first sense input and a sense output, a delay circuit configured to be coupled to the gate drive to provide power to the HV sense transistor when the gate drive is high, and a pull-down transistor configured to couple the sense output to a second sense input when the gate drive is low.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170012533A1 Voltage Converter with VCC-Less RDSon Current Sensing Circuit Public/Granted day:2017-01-12
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