Patents Assigned to Amtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9716398
    Abstract: A driving device with correction function is provided herein and utilizes a sensing resistor to detect the variation in an operation amplifier. A signal generated by an offset voltage correction circuit is fed back to the operation amplifier and the offset voltage of the abnormal input in the operation amplifier is corrected to be zero so as to keep the operation amplifier under the best performance condition. The driving device implements in the wireless charger driving system can enhance the accuracy of the current value and can achieve good output performance and better system stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Amtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui Lee, Chen-Pin Lo, Keng-Yi Wu
  • Patent number: 9124199
    Abstract: A motor driver IC with auto calibration function is provided, the motor driver IC utilizes a Hall sensor of a switched sensor circuit to detect the changes in an external magnetic field. By using the compensation current which is generated by the automatic calibration circuit to correct the unexpected offset existed in the Hall sensor of the sensing unit itself to zero so that the sensing unit can sense the changes in the external magnetic field accurately and can point out the rotor position correctly, and the motor can be further driven to commutate relatively to reduce the motor rotation noise to achieve good output performance of the motor rotation and the better motor driving system stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: AMtek SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui Lee, Keng-Yi Wu, Chin-Hung Liu, Chen-Pin Lo
  • Patent number: 8847537
    Abstract: A motor driving device and a driving method thereof is disclosed herein and comprises a PWM converting circuit, an oscillator, a comparator, a controlling unit. The PWM converting circuit converts an analog signal according to an adjustable the highest setting voltage, an adjustable the lowest setting voltage and a controlling signal. The analog signal and a triangular signal generated by the oscillator are inputted to the comparator to compare to output a drive signal to the controlling unit so as to control the motor speed. The motor driving device in the present invention can adjust the motor rotating speed curve to set the lowest rotating speed of the motor so as to achieve the function of changing the motor rotating speed and maintain the lowest torque of the motor to increase the flexibility of the motor speed control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: AMtek SEMICONDUCTOR Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui Lee, Kuo-Yung Yu
  • Patent number: 8796975
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus is disclosed herein and includes a control unit, a soft-start unit and an output unit. When power-up or lock release situation, an external PWM driving signal is inputted to the soft-start unit, the soft-start unit generates an internal PWM driving signal and a power-up initial signal; after the power-up initial signal is generated, the control unit transmitting a motor rotation signal to the soft-start unit; when the soft-start unit counts a plurality of the motor rotation signal, the soft-start unit selects the external PWM driving signal or the internal PWM driving signal to output to the output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Amtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui Lee, Kuo-Yung Yu, Chen-Pin Lo
  • Publication number: 20140077744
    Abstract: A motor driving device and a driving method thereof is disclosed herein and comprises a PWM converting circuit, an oscillator, a comparator, a controlling unit. The PWM converting circuit converts an analog signal according to an adjustable the highest setting voltage, an adjustable the lowest setting voltage and a controlling signal. The analog signal and a triangular signal generated by the oscillator are inputted to the comparator to compare to output a drive signal to the controlling unit so as to control the motor speed. The motor driving device in the present invention can adjust the motor rotating speed curve to set the lowest rotating speed of the motor so as to achieve the function of changing the motor rotating speed and maintain the lowest torque of the motor to increase the flexibility of the motor speed control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: AMTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui LEE, Kuo-Yung YU
  • Patent number: 8482231
    Abstract: A pulse width modulation (PWM) module is configured to adjust the input PWM control signal and the motor can be implemented in different rotation speed to enhance the flexibility of the implementation of the motor when the PWM control signals are the same. In addition, the PWM modulation block in the present invention includes a PWM direction control circuit, a PWM vector transfer circuit and a PWM signal generation circuit. Apparently, the PWM modulation block of the present invention is connected to a PWM control signal inputted by an external system and an external adjustment apparatus; by setting up the adjustment apparatus, the vector and the modulation direction of the PWM control signal can be adjusted, and the duty cycle of the PWM control signal can also be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Amtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui Lee, Kuo-Yung Yu
  • Patent number: 8432111
    Abstract: A method of the Pulse Amplitude Modulation for the Sensorless Brushless motor, which includes a start-up circuit, a phase detect circuit, a phase commutation circuit, a driving circuit, BEMF detection circuit, and frequency detector, utilizes the control signal of the phase commutation circuit to control the driving circuit so as to drive the outer motor coil and detect the control signal for the driving motor driving circuit by a detection circuit. The motor system can be controlled to reduce the discharge speed to avoid the motor driving circuit shutdown and further speed up the start-up time for the next charging period of the motor driving circuit to achieve the effect of low speed rotation and power saving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Amtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui Lee, Chan-Chih Liu
  • Patent number: 8354807
    Abstract: An anti-noise method for the Direct Current Brushless motor System, which includes a startup circuit, phase detective circuit, motor phase commutation circuit, driving circuit, BEMF detective circuit, and frequency detector, utilizes the BEMF detective circuit to detect the BEMF induced from the coils of the outer motor, and utilizes the sampled voltage phase to determine rotation speed and phase of the external motor by the phase detection circuit and frequency detector. Further, the sampling voltage of the BEMF detection circuit is feedback controlled by the frequency detector, utilized to keep good BEMF to noise ratio, and avoids the BEMF sampling error from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Amtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui Lee, Chan-Chih Liu
  • Patent number: 8350504
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor driving system, in which the duty cycle of the PWM control signals for the duty cycle generator is determined by a speed control circuit, a feedback comparator, and the set and reset signals of a S-R Flip-Flop, wherein the PWM control signals pass through the Hall synthesis circuit, the logic control circuit to drive the coil by the drive current generated, and the duty cycle of the PWM control signals is further adjusted by means of the feedback sensing voltage obtained from the driving current and sensing resistance and fed back to the feedback comparator, the stability and linear stability of the input voltage and the driving current being achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Amtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng-Hui Lee, Wei-Chih Chen