Patents by Inventor Eugene Plutowski

Eugene Plutowski 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: 20050264921
    Abstract: A positioning driver (32) for a voice coil motor (22) in a disk drive system (10) is disclosed. Pulse-width-modulated prestage drivers (46) are coupled to power transistors (50) arranged in an “H” bridge for driving the voice coil motor (22), biased with a power supply voltage (VM). The pulse-width-modulated prestage drivers (46) drive the power transistors (50) according to a comparison between an error signal from an error amplifier (36) and a ramp clock signal (RMP) generated by a ramp clock generator (46). The ramp clock generator (46) includes a control circuit (68) that modulates the high and low limits of the ramp clock signal (RMP) in response to variations in the power supply voltage (VM). This modulation of the high and low limits compensates for variations in the gain of the power transistors (50) resulting from variations in the power supply voltage (VM).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Alaa El-Sherif, Eugene Plutowski, Kevin Ziemer