Patents Assigned to JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 11652098
    Abstract: Disclosed are a transistor structure for electrostatic protection and a method for manufacturing the same. The transistor structure comprises: a doped region in a substrate; field oxide layers; a first N-type well region, a P-type well region and a second N-type well region in the doped region and spaced in sequence; a first polycrystalline silicon layer and a second polycrystalline silicon layer covering part of the P-type well region; a first N+ region and a first P+ region respectively formed in the first N-type well region and the second N-type well region second P+ region and the second N+ region are close to the first N+ region and the first P+ region, respectively. The structure may change a current path under forward/reverse operation; thus, a device keeps a good electrostatic protection capability and high robustness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weihuai Wang, Yang Lu
  • Patent number: 11563381
    Abstract: A control method of a switching circuit, a control circuit of the switching circuit, and the switching circuit are provided. The switching circuit includes an inductor or a transformer. An operational amplification is performed on an output feedback voltage and a first reference voltage of the switching circuit to obtain a compensation voltage. The compensation voltage controls an on-time of a main switch of the switching circuit. When the current of the inductor or the transformer drops to a threshold, after a time, the main switch is switched from off to on, and the output feedback voltage controls the time. When the output feedback voltage is higher than a first threshold voltage, the compensation voltage is pulled down. When the output feedback voltage is lower than a second threshold voltage, the compensation voltage is pulled up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Minghao Wu, Guoqiang Liu, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11463079
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power transistor driving method. When a power transistor is turned off, a drain-source voltage of the power transistor is detected, and when the power transistor is an N-type component, and a change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with time is lower than a first slope threshold, the power transistor is pulled down in a first current; when the change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with the time is higher than the first slope threshold, a driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a second current; and when the change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with the time is lower than the first slope threshold again, a pull-down switch is turned on or the driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a third current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Liyu Lin, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11438979
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an LED driving circuit and an LED driving method, which may be applied to a switching power supply driving circuit and a linear driving circuit. The LED driving circuit includes an adjusting tube and a driving control circuit of the adjusting tube. The adjusting tube receives an input voltage, and the driving control circuit adjusts the adjusting tube to output an output current to be expected. A reference generating circuit samples an output voltage of the LED driving circuit to obtain an output voltage sampling signal and a reference current signal corresponding to the output voltage sampling signal. A current adjusting circuit samples the output current to obtain an output current sampling signal, receives the corresponding reference current signal, and controls a conduction state of the adjusting tube according to the output current sampling signal and the reference current signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou)Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenxu Zha, Pitelong Wong, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11309796
    Abstract: A control method of a single live line charging circuit, a control circuit of a single live line charging circuit, and a single live line charging circuit are provided. The single live line charging circuit includes a first switch, a first conduction element, a first inductor, a second switch, a second conduction element, a third switch, a first input end and a second input end; the first input end is connected to a first end of the first switch through the second conduction element; the first switch, the first conduction element and the first inductor constitute a buck circuit; the first input end is connected to a reference ground through the second switch, the second input end is connected to the reference ground through the third switch, and an alternating current input is connected to the first input end through a load circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Long, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11288431
    Abstract: A method and a system for establishing a metal interconnection layer capacitance prediction model are disclosed. The method for establishing the metal interconnection layer capacitance prediction model includes: extracting capacitance data of metal interconnect layer capacitors of different sizes by using a post simulation tool and establishing a relationship formula between capacitance value and size of the metal interconnect layer capacitors; separately extracting relationship data between voltage and capacitance value of the metal interconnect layer capacitors and between temperature and capacitance value of the metal interconnect layer capacitors by using a process device simulation tool, and add the relationship data to the relationship formula; and establishing a simulation model in accordance with the relationship formula of capacitance value, size, voltage and temperature. The method has improved modeling speed and reduced circuit design cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengfeng Jiang, Yang Lu
  • Patent number: 11218136
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power transistor driving method, a driving circuit and a switching circuit. When the power transistor is an N-type component, a driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a first current, and when a time period recorded by the timer reaches a first time period, a pull-down switch is turned on or the driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a second current; the driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down by the pull-down switch; when a timer is started from a moment at which the power transistor is turned off, the first time period is higher than a time period from a moment at which a switching tube is turned off to a moment at which the change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with the time is higher than the first slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Liyu Lin, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11201553
    Abstract: A control method and a control circuit for a switching power supply circuit and the switching power supply circuit. The switching power supply circuit includes a main switching transistor, a synchronous rectifier and an inductive element. When a switching signal indicates that the synchronous rectifier is turned from on to off, and the main switching transistor is turned from off to on, a gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier is pulled down to be lower than a threshold voltage of the synchronous rectifier and higher than a zero voltage by using a resistor-capacitor delay effect and timing is started. When a gate voltage of the main switching transistor is detected to rise to a first voltage or the timing reaches a first time, the gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier is pulled down to the zero voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xunjin Dou, Aimin Xu, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11165355
    Abstract: A clamping switch abnormality detection method, a clamping switch abnormality detection circuit and a switch circuit are provided, wherein an active clamping flyback circuit includes a clamping switch, a main switch and a transformer. When a clamping switch control signal is active, a switching node voltage or a voltage on an auxiliary winding or an magnetizing inductor current is detected, and when the switching node voltage or the voltage on the auxiliary winding or the magnetizing inductor current oscillates, or the switching node voltage is less than a first voltage threshold or the voltage on the auxiliary winding is less than a second voltage threshold, the clamping switch is abnormal or a clamping switch driving circuit is abnormal. The switching node is a common node of the transformer and the main switch, and the transformer includes a primary winding, a secondary winding and the auxiliary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Xianghua Jiang, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11152866
    Abstract: An active clamping flyback circuit and a control method are disclosed, comprising a flyback circuit, a clamping circuit and a clamping control circuit. The active clamping flyback circuit comprises a transformer, a main transistor, and a freewheeling diode or a synchronous rectifier, an output feedback circuit is coupling to an auxiliary winding of the transformer and outputs a feedback voltage through a divided voltage The clamping circuit comprises a first capacitor and a first transistor coupling in series, In a discontinuous conduction mode, the clamping control circuit starts timing from a turn-off time of the first transistor, and ends timing until the feedback voltage is reduced to zero voltage, to obtain a first time, The clamping control circuit adjusts a turn-off moment of next switching cycle of the first transistor so that the first time of the next switching cycle is close to a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Xianghua Jiang, Xunwei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210279394
    Abstract: A method and a system for establishing a metal interconnection layer capacitance prediction model are disclosed. The method for establishing the metal interconnection layer capacitance prediction model includes: extracting capacitance data of metal interconnect layer capacitors of different sizes by using a post simulation tool and establishing a relationship formula between capacitance value and size of the metal interconnect layer capacitors; separately extracting relationship data between voltage and capacitance value of the metal interconnect layer capacitors and between temperature and capacitance value of the metal interconnect layer capacitors by using a process device simulation tool, and add the relationship data to the relationship formula; and establishing a simulation model in accordance with the relationship formula of capacitance value, size, voltage and temperature. The method has improved modeling speed and reduced circuit design cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SHENGFENG JIANG, Yang LU
  • Publication number: 20210210480
    Abstract: Disclosed are a transistor structure for electrostatic protection and a method for manufacturing same. The transistor structure comprises: a doped region in a substrate; field oxide layers; a first N-type well region, a P-type well region and a second N-type well region in the doped region and spaced in sequence; a first polycrystalline silicon layer and a second polycrystalline silicon layer covering part of the P-type well region; a first N+ region and a first P+ region respectively formed in the first N-type well region and the second N-type well region; a second N+ region and a second P+ region in the P-type well region. The second P+ region and the second N+ region are close to the first N+ region and the first P+ region, respectively. The structure may change a current path under forward/reverse operation; thus, a device keeps a good electrostatic protection capability and high robustness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: WEIHUAI WANG, Yang LU
  • Publication number: 20210194373
    Abstract: A control method of a switching circuit, a control circuit of the switching circuit, and the switching circuit are provided. The switching circuit includes an inductor or a transformer. An operational amplification is performed on an output feedback voltage and a first reference voltage of the switching circuit to obtain a compensation voltage. The compensation voltage controls an on-time of a main switch of the switching circuit. When the current of the inductor or the transformer drops to a threshold, after a time, the main switch is switched from off to on, and the output feedback voltage controls the time. When the output feedback voltage is higher than a first threshold voltage, the compensation voltage is pulled down. When the output feedback voltage is lower than a second threshold voltage, the compensation voltage is pulled up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Minghao WU, Guoqiang Liu, Xunwei ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210175336
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lateral double-diffused transistor and a manufacturing method of the transistor. The transistor comprises: a substrate; a well region and a drift region both located in the top of the substrate, a source region located in the well region, and a drain region located in the drift region; a first dielectric layer located on a surface of the drift region; a first field plate layer located above the drift region and covering a first portion of the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer covering a surface of part of the first field plate layer and stacked on a surface of a second portion of the first dielectric layer; a second field plate layer located on a surface of the second dielectric layer, comprising at least one contact channel. According to the present disclosure, the transistor increases breakdown voltage and reduces on-state resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang LU, Guangtao HAN, WEIWEI Ge
  • Publication number: 20210152094
    Abstract: A clamping switch abnormality detection method, a clamping switch abnormality detection circuit and a switch circuit are provided, wherein an active clamping flyback circuit includes a clamping switch, a main switch and a transformer. When a clamping switch control signal is active, a switching node voltage or a voltage on an auxiliary winding or an magnetizing inductor current is detected, and when the switching node voltage or the voltage on the auxiliary winding or the magnetizing inductor current oscillates, or the switching node voltage is less than a first voltage threshold or the voltage on the auxiliary winding is less than a second voltage threshold, the clamping switch is abnormal or a clamping switch driving circuit is abnormal. The switching node is a common node of the transformer and the main switch, and the transformer includes a primary winding, a secondary winding and the auxiliary winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou)Co.,LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Xianghua JIANG, Xunwei ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10951108
    Abstract: This invention provides a switching power supply controlling circuit, the switching power supply comprises an upper transistor and a lower transistor, the switching power supply controlling circuit comprises a boost circuit, an input terminal of the boost circuit is connected to an input terminal of the switching power supply, the boost circuit output a first voltage to control a working state of the boost circuit, driving the upper transistor to be in an on state. The switching power supply controlling circuit adopts a boost circuit to provide a driving power for the upper transistor, and there is no need to set a bootstrap pin or a bootstrap capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongji He, Xunjin Dou, Xunwei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210058002
    Abstract: An active clamping flyback circuit is disclosed, comprising a flyback circuit, a clamping circuit and a clamping control circuit, wherein the flyback circuit comprises a transformer, a main transistor, and a freewheeling diode or a synchronous rectifier, an output feedback circuit is coupling to an auxiliary winding of the transformer and outputs a feedback voltage through a divided voltage; the clamping circuit comprises a first capacitor and a first transistor coupling in series, one end of the first capacitor is coupling to a high voltage end, one end of the first transistor is coupling to a common end of the main transistor and a primary winding of the transformer; the clamping control circuit adjusts a turn-off time of next switching cycle of the first transistor so that the first time of the next switching cycle is close to a first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pitleong WONG, XIANGHUA JIANG, XUNWEI ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210058001
    Abstract: A control method and a control circuit for a switching power supply circuit and the switching power supply circuit. The switching power supply circuit includes a main switching transistor, a synchronous rectifier and an inductive element. When a switching signal indicates that the synchronous rectifier is turned from on to off, and the main switching transistor is turned from off to on, a gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier is pulled down to be lower than a threshold voltage of the synchronous rectifier and higher than a zero voltage by using a resistor-capacitor delay effect and timing is started. When a gate voltage of the main switching transistor is detected to rise to a first voltage or the timing reaches a first time, the gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier is pulled down to the zero voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou)Co.,LTD.
    Inventors: Xunjin DOU, Aimin XU, Xunwei ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10886913
    Abstract: Disclosed a drive method, a drive circuit for a power switch and a power supply system. During the turning-on period of the power switch, which can be roughly divided into three processes, a current limiting module is used to limit the current flowing through the power switch for preventing current overshoot, a logic control module is used for controlling the current limiting module not to operate before the turning-on period and the control terminal of the power switch is turned off; during the turning-on period, a feedback circuit adjusts the gate voltage of the power switch for controlling the current flowing through the power switch to reach a predetermined limited value quickly and then maintain at the limited value until the power switch is fully turned on. The current limiting module can be employed in various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Libin Huang, Yuancheng Ren, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 10886853
    Abstract: A power device driving method and a driving circuit for a switching circuit having a main switching transistor, a synchronous rectifier, and an inductive element. When a switching signal indicates that the synchronous rectifier is turned from on to off and the main switching transistor is turned from off to on, a gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier is pulled down to be lower than a threshold voltage of the synchronous rectifier and higher than zero voltage by a body effect of a MOS transistor, and timing is started. When detecting that a gate voltage of the main switching transistor rises to a first voltage or the timing reaches a first time, the gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier is pulled down to the zero voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aimin Xu, Xunjin Dou, Xunwei Zhou