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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
David Bingham, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
363127 ; 363147 ;
Abstract
An integrated off-line half-wave rectifier commonly connected to one side of the AC line at one of its output terminals is disclosed. An equivalent diode device passes current to the output during a positive AC input half cycle. A comparator senses the negative half cycle and turns on a switching device to conduct current between the two AC input terminals during that cycle.