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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:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
David E Landolf, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364492 ; 324416 ;
Abstract
An active asymmetrical power supply comprising a power supply, a load sensor and a voltage reference selection circuit. The load current sensor preferably, is coupled between the power supply and a load to provide the voltage reference selection circuit information regarding the amount of load current being applied to the load. The load current can be measured as a function of a voltage drop across the load current sensor. The voltage reference selection circuit actively offsets an operating voltage (or DC set voltage) in response to the amount of load current being applied to the load.