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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. 03, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Dialog Semiconductor (Uk) Limited, Reading, GB;
Inventors:
Jindrich Svorc, Prague-Praha, CZ;
Hidenori Kobayashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited, Reading, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/158 (2006.01); G05F 1/575 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/1588 (2013.01); G05F 1/575 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0009 (2013.01);
Abstract
A circuit and method for power converter for improved current monitoring, comprising a buck converter comprising a high side switch, a current sensing circuits parallel to the buck converter configured to sense a current through a low side switch, and a positive slope inductor coil estimator sensing circuit parallel to a buck converter configured to estimate a current magnitude.