# US 7,609,101 B2 · PWM switching direct voltage circuit > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,609,101 B2 - Document ID: US7609101B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 11/907,313 - Filed: 2007-10-11 - Published: 2009-04-16 - Granted: 2009-10-27 - Earliest claimed: 2007-10-11 - Assignees: Anpec Electronics Corporation; Shou-Te Yu - Inventors: Ching-Sheng Li - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7609101B2 ## CPC - H03K 5/06: by the use of delay lines or other analogue delay elements - H03K 7/08: Duration or width modulation {; Duty cycle modulation} - H03K: PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M) ## Abstract The present invention relates to a pulse width modulation switching direct voltage circuit. The PWM circuit comprises a first passive device, a second passive device and a third passive device connected in series between a power supply and a ground such that the first passive device is connected to the second passive device and the second passive device is connected to the third passive device, and a fourth passive device which is connected in-parallel between an output end and a point between the first passive device and the second passive device, wherein the rated value of the fourth passive device is at least three times more than the rated value of the first passive device. Herewith, the voltage-cycle relationship of the PWM circuit becomes linear. Under such a state, the PWM circuit is enabled with good work efficiency. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A PWM switching direct voltage circuit, comprising a first passive device, a second passive device and a third passive device connected in series between a power supply and a ground such that the first passive device is connected to the second passive device and the second passive device is connected to the third passive device, wherein an active device is connected in parallel with said third passive device between said ground and a point between the second passive device and the third passive device, wherein: a fourth passive device is connected between an output end and a point between the first passive device and the second passive device, and an energy storage device is connected between said output end and a ground, wherein the rated value of the fourth passive device is at least three times more than the rated value of the first passive device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 1, wherein the first passive device, the second passive device, the third passive device and the fourth passive device is one of the wire wound resistor, metallic film resistor, alloy film resistor, oxide metal film resistor, carbon resistor, carbon solid state resistor and cement resistor. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 1, wherein the active device is one of the bipolar junction transistor, field effect transistor, junction type field effect transistor, metal oxide semiconductor. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 1, wherein the energy storage device is one of the ceramic condenser, electrolytic condenser and tantalum condenser. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 1, wherein an analog switching device is connected in parallel with said fourth passive device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 5, wherein the analog switching device is Schottky diode. ### Claim 7 A PWM switching direct voltage circuit, comprising a first passive device and a third passive device connected in series between a power supply end and a ground, wherein an active device and a second passive device are connected in series between an input end and a point between the first passive device and the third passive device, wherein: a fourth passive device is connected between an output end and said point between the first passive device and the third passive device, and an energy storage device is connected between the output end and said ground, wherein the rated value of the fourth passive device is at least three times more than the rated value of the first passive device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 7, wherein the first passive device, the second passive device, the third passive device and the fourth passive device is one of the wire wound resistor, metallic film resistor, alloy film resistor, oxide metal film resistor, carbon resistor, carbon solid state resistor and cement resistor. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 7, wherein the active device is one of the bipolar junction transistor, field effect transistor, junction type field effect transistor, metal oxide semiconductor. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 7, wherein the energy storage device is one of the ceramic condenser, electrolytic condenser and tantalum condenser. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 7, wherein the both ends of the fourth passive device are further connected with an analog switching device. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) A PWM switching direct voltage circuit according to claim 11, wherein the analog switching device is Schottky diode.