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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Applicant:
Joseph Martin Patterson, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Inventor:
Joseph Martin Patterson, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Assignee:
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/00 (2006.01); H01C 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is provided for thermal electric binary logic control. The method accepts an input voltage representing an input logic state. A heat reference is controlled in response to the input voltage. The method supplies an output voltage representing an output logic state, responsive to the heat reference. More explicitly, the heat reference controls the output voltage of a temperature-sensitive voltage divider. For example, the temperature-sensitive voltage divider may be a thermistor voltage divider.