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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2009
Applicants:

Stewart Kenly, Epping, NH (US);

Paul W. Latham, Ii, Lee, NH (US);

Inventors:

Stewart Kenly, Epping, NH (US);

Paul W. Latham, II, Lee, NH (US);

Assignee:

L&L Engineering, LLC, Lee, NH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An inductor current estimator for a switching power supply includes a first sensing and averaging component that generates an average of a switch voltage and a second sensing and averaging component that generates an average of an output voltage of the switching power supply. A first subtraction component receives the average of the switch voltage and the average of the output voltage. A first multiplying component receives an output of the first subtraction component and multiplies the output of the first subtraction component by a first model parameter. A second multiplying component multiplies an input to the second multiplying component by a second model parameter. An adding component adds an output of the first multiplying component and an output of the second multiplying component. A delay component receives an output of the adding component and provides an output to an input of the second multiplying component.


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