Patents Examined by Levi Gannon
  • Patent number: 11705863
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes an oscillator and a power amplifier. The oscillator includes a first node, a second node, and a network of one or more reactive components coupled between the first node and the second node. The power amplifier includes a first input coupled to the first output of the oscillator, a second input coupled to the second output of the oscillator, and an output. The power amplifier includes a coarse gain control circuit, a first amplifier stage, and a second amplifier stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Sudipto Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11705865
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a relaxation oscillator, an integrated circuit and an electronic apparatus, the relaxation oscillator comprising a first signal generation module and an oscillation module configured to output a first oscillation signal and a second oscillation signal, the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal being opposite in phase, the oscillation module comprising a first switch, a second switch, a capacitor, and a comparison unit. The oscillation module according to the disclosed embodiment using a floating amplifier to implement a comparator, where in a pre-charging stage, the first switch and the second switch are turned on to charge the capacitor, and a common mode of the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal is determined; in a comparing stage, the first switch and the second switch are turned off to output the oscillation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: INNOGRIT TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi Cao, Kangmin Hu
  • Patent number: 11695292
    Abstract: A power supply system includes: a voltage converter that converts a voltage between first and second power circuits; a power controller that controls charging and discharging of first and second batteries; a cooling output controller that controls cooling output for the second battery; a temperature remaining-capacity acquirer that acquires a temperature remaining-capacity T2_mar; and a cooling remaining-capacity acquirer that acquires a cooling remaining-capacity PC2_mar depending on a difference between maximum cooling output and the cooling output of the second cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11689159
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a first terminal to be coupled to one end of a resonator, a second terminal to be coupled to another end of the resonator, an amplifying element configured to amplify a signal from the first terminal to output the signal amplified to the second terminal, a first resistor element disposed on a signal path between an input node and an output node of the amplifying element, a capacitance element disposed on a signal path between the first terminal and the input node, and a first switch element configured to switch electrical coupling between the input node and a ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Itasaka
  • Patent number: 11684752
    Abstract: An actuator is provided with a tubular actuator element and a supporting body which supports an inner peripheral surface of the actuator element. An internal pressure of the actuator element is higher than an external pressure of the actuator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakata, Satoshi Nakamaru, Hiroichi Ishikawa, Kazuhito Wakana, Yoshio Goto
  • Patent number: 11682930
    Abstract: A modular wireless power transfer system includes a first wireless transmission system and a wireless repeater system. The first wireless transmission system is configured to receive input power from an input power source, generate AC wireless signals, and couple with the wireless repeater system. A magnetic sensor system in the first wireless transmission system senses a magnet of specific strength in a specific location on the wireless repeater system. Based on the presence of absence of such a magnet, the first wireless transmission system allows or disallows, respectively, the transmission of the AC wireless signals to the wireless repeater system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NUCURRENT, INC.
    Inventor: Mark Melone
  • Patent number: 11677353
    Abstract: A variable capacitor circuit includes a capacitor block including a first varactor element comprising a first transistor having a first size, a second varactor element comprising a second transistor having a second size different from the first size, a first terminal commonly connected to a source and a drain of the first transistor, a second terminal commonly connected to a source and a drain of the second transistor, and an RC circuit connected to a gate of the first transistor and a gate of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yongchang Choi, Sungjoon Park, Hyoeun Park, Youngchang An, Hyotae Choo, Somin Lee
  • Patent number: 11671055
    Abstract: There is configured an oscillator characterized by including an outer package having a housing space, an inner package housed in the housing space, a resonator element housed in the inner package, a heater element housed in the housing space, and fixed to the inner package, an oscillation circuit configured to oscillate the resonator element, a conducting member configured to electrically couple the inner package and the heater element to each other, and a first bonding wire configured to couple the heater element and the outer package to each other, and configured to electrically couple the conducting member and the outer package to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norihito Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 11664764
    Abstract: There is configured an oscillator including a resonator, and a circuit device, wherein the circuit device includes a first terminal, a storage circuit configured to store data corresponding to an external signal input from the first terminal, an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal using the resonator, a counter circuit configured to count a period in which the external signal has a first polarity and a period in which the external signal has a second polarity using a clock signal generated based on the oscillation signal, and a processing circuit configured to write the data in the storage circuit based on a counting result of the counter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Tomoaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11664765
    Abstract: A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal, a first pre-driver disposed in a posterior stage of the oscillation circuit, a first output driver disposed in a posterior stage of the first pre-driver, a first regulator configured to supply a first regulated voltage to the first pre-driver, and a second regulator configured to supply a second regulated voltage to the first output driver, wherein the second regulator is shorter in transient response time than the first regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Takehiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11658613
    Abstract: An oscillator in which crosstalk can be reduced is provided. An oscillator includes a SQUID, a transmission line connected to the SQUID, a ground plane, and a first connection circuit disposed in a vicinity of a node of an electric field of a standing wave that is generated when the oscillator is oscillating, the first connection circuit connecting parts of the ground plane located on both sides of the transmission line to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Tomohiro Yamaji
  • Patent number: 11654789
    Abstract: An electric power supply system includes a battery, an electric power receiving apparatus that is coupled to the battery in parallel with a load and receives and supplies external electric power to the battery, a switching apparatus that allows or cuts off connection of the electric power receiving apparatus and the load to the battery and is switchable between a normal state and a current suppression state when the connection is allowed, and a control apparatus that permits a load driving mode if the external electric power is receivable. In the load driving mode, the control apparatus controls an electrical connection state of the electric power supply system to a first connection state in which the electric power receiving apparatus and the load are coupled to the battery via the switching apparatus in the current suppression state, depending on output electric power of the electric power receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11658667
    Abstract: A division factor generator of a feedback divider block in a fractional-N phase locked loop (PLL). The division factor generator is enabled to operate with larger values of division factors without increased complexity of an internal modulator core implemented, for example, as a delta-sigma modulator (DSM) having a signal transfer function (STF), wherein the STF always generates only an integer value as an output in response to an integer value received as input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Shaoxing Yuanfang Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Raja Prabhu J, Sandeep Sasi, Harshavardhan Reddy
  • Patent number: 11653571
    Abstract: A resonance device includes a first substrate formed of a semiconductor material or a glass material and having a recess which has an opening in a first main surface, a second substrate bonded to the first main surface and configured to close the opening of the recess, and a resonator element housed in the recess. An inner surface of the recess includes a side surface, a bottom surface, and a connection surface connecting the side surface and the bottom surface, the connection surface is a curved surface, and L1<L2, wherein L1 is a length of the connection surface in a first direction, and L2 is a length in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11643034
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply system and a method for operating the same are provided. The vehicle power supply system includes a main battery and a sub-battery to supply power to an electronic load inside a vehicle, and a controller to control supplying of the power to the electronic load using at least one of the main battery or the sub-battery, by monitoring the main battery and the sub-battery. The controller determines whether the main battery allows entrance into Idle Stop and Go, determines whether the sub-battery is able to assist the ISG, and controls the sub-battery to assist the main battery to supply the power to the electronic load, when the main battery allows the entrance into the ISG, when the sub-battery is able to assist the ISG, and when entering into the ISG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Sun Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11646698
    Abstract: In an integrated circuit device having a microelectromechanical-system (MEMS) resonator and a temperature transducer, a clock signal is generated by sensing resonant mechanical motion of the MEMS resonator and a temperature signal indicative of temperature of the MEMS resonator is generated via the temperature transducer. The clock signal and the temperature signal are output from the integrated circuit device concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SiTime Corporation
    Inventors: Sassan Tabatabaei, Kamran Souri, Saleh Heidary Shalmany, Charles I. Grosjean
  • Patent number: 11646721
    Abstract: A controlling circuit for ring oscillator is provided. A first transistor and a second transistor of a first conductive type are coupled in series and between a node and a first power source. A third transistor and a fourth transistor of a second conductive type are coupled in parallel and between the node and a second power source. The node is coupled to an input of a delay chain of the ring oscillator. The second and third transistors are coupled in series. Gates of the second and third transistors are configured to receive an output signal of the delay chain. When the first transistor is turned off and the fourth transistor is turned on, the node is pulled to a first logic level from a second logic level in order to align a phase of a waveform of the ring oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Hsien Tsai, Ruey-Bin Sheen, Chih-Hsien Chang, Cheng-Hsiang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11641191
    Abstract: In an embodiment a ring oscillator circuit includes a chain of cascade-coupled inverter stages coupled between an oscillator supply voltage node and a reference voltage node, the oscillator supply voltage node configured to provide an oscillator supply voltage, a current generator circuit coupled between the oscillator supply voltage node and a system supply voltage node configured to provide a system supply voltage, the current generator circuit being configured to inject a current into the oscillator supply voltage node and a biasing circuit including a first bias control transistor and a second bias control transistor coupled in series between the reference voltage node and the oscillator supply voltage node, wherein the first bias control transistor is configured to selectively couple the reference voltage node and the oscillator supply voltage node in response to the oscillator control signal being indicative that the ring oscillator circuit is in an inactive operation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L., STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) SAS
    Inventors: Antonino Conte, Marco Ruta, Michelangelo Pisasale, Thomas Jouanneau
  • Patent number: 11641178
    Abstract: An oscillator circuit includes an oscillator transistor (Q1) having respective first, second, and control terminals, the oscillator transistor being arranged to generate a microwave oscillating signal at the first terminal. A surface integrated waveguide resonator (Y1) is connected to the second terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1). An active bias circuit portion (202) including a negative feedback arrangement is between the first terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1) and the control terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1), the active bias circuit portion being arranged to supply a bias current to the control terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1). The bias current is dependent on a voltage at the first terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1) multiplied by a negative gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Ramoutar, Marat Patotski, Lukasz Sulkowski, Sebastian Mansfeld
  • Patent number: 11637529
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes an inverter, first and second capacitors, a resistor, and a transistor. The inverter has an input and an output. The first capacitor is coupled to a ground. The transistor has a first transistor terminal, a second transistor terminal, and a control input. The first transistor terminal is coupled to the first capacitor and the second transistor terminal is coupled to the input of the inverter. The second capacitor is coupled between the output of the inverter and the ground. The resistor is coupled between the output of the inverter and the first transistor terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sumantra Seth, Isha Khandelwal, Rama Santosh Neelim Kumar Kattamuri