Patents by Inventor Cristian Trinidad

Cristian Trinidad has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230123243
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor configured to sense an angle of a magnetic field associated with a rotatable target includes a first magnetic field sensing structure configured to generate a first signal indicative of the magnetic field and a second magnetic field sensing structure configured to generate a second signal indicative of the magnetic field, wherein the first and second magnetic field sensing structures are configured to detect quadrature components of the magnetic field. A controller responsive to the first and second signals includes an angle tracking observer having a sine block and a cosine block operatively coupled to compute the angular position of the target using a control loop based in part on a non-orthogonality error term and a magnitude calculator that uses the sine block and the cosine block to compute a magnitude of the magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Cristian Trinidad, Nicolás Rigoni
  • Patent number: 11555716
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor configured to sense a parameter associated with a rotatable target that affects a magnetic field includes at least one magnetic field sensing element that is arranged to generate a signal that is indicative of the magnetic field, a magnitude calculator responsive to the signal and configured to generate a magnitude signal indicative of a magnitude of the magnetic field, and a harmonic compensator responsive to the magnitude signal and configured to generate an estimate of a harmonic error of the signal and apply the estimate of the harmonic error of the signal to the signal to generate a corrected signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Nicolás Rigoni, Cristian Trinidad, Emanuele Andrea Casu