Heating device having heating transistor unit
AssigneeSercomm Corporation
InventorsChien-Ming Chen, Meng-Chien Chiang
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Abstract
A heating device is provided. A temperature sensing unit is configured to sense an ambient temperature and accordingly output a temperature sensing voltage. A driving unit is coupled to a heating transistor unit and the temperature sensing unit, and configured to drive the heating transistor unit for performing heating based on the temperature sensing voltage. An activating unit is coupled to the temperature sensing unit, configured to output an activating signal based on the temperature sensing voltage when a temperature of the printed circuit board has risen up to a preset temperature. The heating device as provided can assure that the activating signal can be normally outputted by the heating device under an ambient at an extremely low temperature.
Claims11
A heating device, comprising:
- a heating transistor unit;
- a temperature sensing unit, configured to sense an ambient temperature and accordingly output a temperature sensing voltage;
- a driving unit, coupled to the heating transistor unit and the temperature sensing unit, configured to drive the heating transistor unit to perform heating based on the temperature sensing voltage;
- an activating unit, coupled to the temperature sensing unit and configured to output an activating signal based on the temperature sensing voltage when a sensed temperature has risen to a preset temperature, wherein the heating device activates an electronic apparatus according to the activating signal;
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- a hysteresis unit, coupled between the temperature sensing unit and the driving unit, wherein the hysteresis unit outputs a first voltage based on the temperature sensing voltage to enable the driving unit when the sensed temperature has risen to a first temperature, and outputs a second voltage based on the temperature sensing voltage to disable the driving unit when the sensed temperature has dropped to a second temperature, wherein the first temperature is higher than the second temperature.
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