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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:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2015
Applicant:

Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

James A. Siulinski, Westbrook, ME (US);

Kenneth P. Snowdon, Falmouth, ME (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 9/06 (2006.01); H03K 17/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 9/061 (2013.01); H03K 17/56 (2013.01); Y10T 307/615 (2015.04);
Abstract

This document discusses, among other things, an electronic circuit and method for defaulting to a valid battery supply to power an electronic device. In an example, an electronic circuit can be configured to receive information about the battery supply (e.g., an internal battery), such as the battery supply voltage (V), and to determine if the battery supply is valid or invalid using the received information (e.g., comparing the Vto a threshold). If Vis valid, the electronic device can default to receiving power from the battery supply. If Vis invalid, the electronic device can receive power from another power supply, such as an external supply.


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