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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:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth J. Maggio, Dallas, TX (US);
Patrick M. Teterud, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/756 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/756 ;
Abstract
An active damping circuit damps the ringing effect caused by a write circuit for a disk drive. The circuit includes upper switches and lower switched current sources. A capacitive feedback is connected between the output and the lower switched current sources.