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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2021
Applicant:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Inventors:
Patrick Mercier, San Diego, CA (US);
Abdullah Abdulslam, La Jolla, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/00 (2007.01); H02M 3/07 (2006.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/0054 (2021.05); H02M 3/07 (2013.01); H02M 3/158 (2013.01);
Abstract
A charge recycling circuit in an integrated circuit DC-DC converter having two power MOSFETs, the charge recycling circuit comprising a single inductor and recycling MOSFET switches arranged and sized such that when one of the two power MOSFETs is turning off, its gate capacitance charges are transferred to the single inductor, stored in the single inductor and then transferred directly to the gate of the other power MOSFET to turn it on.