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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:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Greg H Fasullo, Dallas, TX (US);
Jin He, Plano, TX (US);
Greg P Jorgenson, Quinlan, TX (US);
Nhon D Le, Rowlett, TX (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
363 50 ;
Abstract
A temperature protection circuit, a method of protecting a power converter and a power converter employing the circuit or the method. In one embodiment, the circuit includes: (1) a temperature sensor, located in thermal communication with the power converter, that produces a signal based on a temperature associated with the power converter and (2) a current controller, coupled to the temperature sensor, that reduces an output current of the power converter to an intermediate level based on the signal.