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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2017
Nuvoton Technology Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;
Moshe Alon, Tel Aviv, IL;
NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A personal computer or other electronic device may be powered by an external power supply and may have a legacy ambient temperature sensor e.g. because a fan whose speed is controlled by a controller, uses as an input, inter alia, ambient air temperature received from the legacy temperature sensor which may be disposed adjacent the fan. A controller may be provided which limits the current based on ambient air temperature reading/s flowing out of the sensor thereby to optimize power consumption relative to conventional 'worst-case-assumption based' control of the current, in which current supplied is limited, mindful of a pre-set worst-case temperature assessment, to an un-necessarily low level of current.