Patents Represented by Attorney Joesph E. Rusz
  • Patent number: 3970919
    Abstract: A regulating digital power supply in which an error detector compares a reference signal voltage with an unknown loop signal voltage and upon being strobed the error detector outputs a signal depending upon the relative magnitude of the two input signals. This output signal controls the direction of count of an up/down counter that counts clock pulses. At appropriate intervals as controlled by the clock, the contents of the up/down counter are transferred to a down counter upon a command signal which also sets a flip-flop. When the down counter reaches zero and overflows it emits a signal that resets the flip-flop, the output thereof being a pulsewidth modulated regulated power supply. The flip-flop also controls a switch to a power source that is rectified and filtered and then fed back to the error detector comparator, thereby completing the loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Daryl T. Butcher