Patents by Inventor Daniel Patrick McCarthy

Daniel Patrick McCarthy 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).

  • Patent number: 6920316
    Abstract: A regulation circuit, incorporated in a single integrated circuit with a first circuit load, which as an input coupled to a power supply which produces a source voltage, and a first output coupled to the first circuit load. The regulation circuit comprises an input capacitor for reducing the magnitude of a voltage change at the first output, and at least a first voltage regulator for producing a predetermined voltage at the first load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Edwin Connell, Neal W. Hollenbeck, Michael Lee Bushman, Daniel Patrick McCarthy
  • Patent number: 6441594
    Abstract: A voltage regulator 100, 130 for isolating radio frequency circuits from on chip digital circuit originated noise and an integrated circuit chip including the voltage regulator. The voltage regulator 100, 130 includes regulator device (a PFET) 106 driven by a sense amplifier 110 to derive a regulator voltage 108 from a supply voltage 102. Another sense amplifier 114 senses changes in output load and adjusts current flow through a current shunt 120, 122 so that the current shunt 120, 122 shunts excess load current. The sense amplifier 110 driving the voltage regulator device 106 senses current flow through the current shunt 120, 122 and adjusts the current supplied by the regulator device 106 to reduce excess current. The current shunt 120, 122 is a series connected PFET 120 and NFET diode 122, with the gate of the PFET 120 driven to control current flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Motorola Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Edwin Connell, Daniel Patrick McCarthy