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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:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2003
Applicant:
Philip Rutter, Stockport, GB;
Inventor:
Philip Rutter, Stockport, GB;
Assignee:
NXP, B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/687 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A driver circuit includes monitoring circuitry () for monitoring the states of high and low side switches (). The driver circuit has an adjustable delay for turning on the transistors (). The delay is decreased when the monitoring circuit detects that a voltage corresponding to one transistor passes a predetermined voltage Vbefore a voltage corresponding to the other transistor passes another predetermined point Vand vice versa.