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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2010
Applicant:
Michael N. Diamond, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Inventor:
Michael N. Diamond, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
Transonic Combustion, Inc., Camarillo, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 41/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention features a circuit for driving a piezoelectric actuator, comprising a first transmission line to provide an input signal having a time-varying voltage; a second transmission line to provide a predetermined voltage current; a piezoelectric element; and a switch coupled to the second transmission line and the piezoelectric element, the switch configured to electrically connect and disconnect the predetermined voltage current to and from the piezoelectric element based on the input signal.