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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 19, 2017
Applicant:

Renesas Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Shunichi Kaeriyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/04 (2006.01); H03K 17/14 (2006.01); H03K 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/0406 (2013.01); H03K 17/14 (2013.01); H03K 17/167 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a drive device and a power supply system capable of driving a power transistor with low power while reflecting variations in manufacture process and external environments. A trigger detection circuit monitors a voltage between terminals or a current between terminals in a switching period of a power transistor and detects that the voltage between terminals or the current between terminals reaches a predetermined reference value. A current switching circuit selects a register outputting a current value to a variable current driver circuit from a plurality of registers and switches the register to be selected using a detection result of the trigger detection circuit as a trigger in the switching period, thereby making the drive current of the variable current driver circuit shift.


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