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US 10,763,843 B2Granted
Trickle charge control
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorKrishnamurthy Ganapathi Shankar
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Abstract
A system includes a trickle charge control circuit coupled to a charge pump and a motor driver circuit. The trickle charge control circuit is configured to sense a voltage at a bootstrap capacitor voltage node (VBST) of the motor driver circuit; as a result of the voltage at VBST being greater than a voltage at an input voltage node (VIN), couple a charge pump voltage node (VCP) to VBST of the motor driver circuit, where a voltage at VCP is greater than the voltage at VIN; and as a result of the voltage at VBST being less than the voltage at VIN, decouple VCP from the charge pump from VBST of the motor driver circuit.
Claims13
A system comprising:
- a trickle charge control circuit coupled to a charge pump and a motor driver circuit, configured to:
- sense a voltage at a bootstrap capacitor voltage node (VBST) of the motor driver circuit;
- as a result of the voltage at VBST being greater than a voltage at an input voltage node (VIN), couple a charge pump voltage node (VCP) to VBST of the motor driver circuit, wherein a voltage at VCP is greater than the voltage at VIN;
- and
- as a result of the voltage at VBST being less than the voltage at VIN, decouple VCP from the charge pump from VBST of the motor driver circuit;
- wherein the trickle charge control circuit further comprises:
- an n-type MOSFET comprising a source coupled to ground, a drain, and a gate;
- a first p-type MOSFET comprising a drain coupled to VBST, a source coupled to ground via a resistor and to the gate of the first n-type MOSFET, and a gate coupled to VIN;
- a second p-type MOSFET comprising a source coupled to VCP, a drain coupled to VBST, and a gate coupled to the drain of the first n-type MOSFET;
- and
- a resistor coupled to VCP and the gate of the second p-type MOSFET.
8 more elements
A system comprising:
- a motor driver circuit coupled to an input voltage node (VIN) coupled to a first voltage source, the motor driver circuit comprising:
- a switched voltage phase node (VSW);
- a high-side metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) coupled between VIN and VSW;
- a low-side MOSFET coupled between VSW and ground;
- a bootstrap capacitor coupled between a bootstrap capacitor voltage node (VBST) and VSW, wherein VBST is coupled to a second voltage source by way of a diode;
- and
- a gate driver to apply either a voltage at VBST or a voltage at VSW to a gate of the high-side MOSFET;
- a charge pump coupled to VIN and configured to generate a voltage at a charge pump voltage node (VCP), wherein a voltage at VCP is greater than a voltage at VIN;
- and
- a trickle charge control circuit coupled to the charge pump and the motor driver circuit, configured to:
- sense the voltage at VBST;
- as a result of the voltage at VBST being greater than the voltage at VIN, couple VCP from the charge pump to VBST of the motor driver circuit;
- and
- as a result of the voltage at VBST being less than the voltage at VIN, decouple VCP from the charge pump from VBST of the motor driver circuit.
11 more elements
A system comprising:
- only one charge pump coupled to an input voltage node (VIN) coupled to a first voltage source and configured to generate a voltage at a charge pump voltage node (VCP), wherein a voltage at VCP is greater than a voltage at VIN;
- a plurality of motor driver circuits coupled to VIN, each motor driver circuit comprising:
- a switched voltage phase node (VSW);
- a high-side metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) coupled between VIN and VSW;
- a low-side MOSFET coupled between VSW and ground;
- a bootstrap capacitor coupled between a bootstrap capacitor voltage node (VBST) and VSW, wherein VBST is coupled to a second voltage source by way of a diode;
- and
- a gate driver to apply either a voltage at VBST or a voltage at VSW to a gate of the high-side MOSFET;
- and
- for each of the motor driver circuits, an associated trickle charge control circuit coupled to the charge pump and its associated motor driver circuit, configured to:
- sense the voltage at VBST of the associated motor driver circuit;
- as a result of the voltage at VBST being greater than the voltage at VIN, couple VCP from the charge pump to VBST of the associated motor driver circuit;
- and
- as a result of the voltage at VBST being less than the voltage at VIN, decouple VCP from the charge pump from VBST of the associated motor driver circuit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.