Patents by Inventor Giulio Renato Corva

Giulio Renato Corva 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: 20240283357
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a converter are provided. In the method and apparatus, a controller determines a difference between an on-time and an off-time of a command signal representative of a switching signal of the converter. The controller generates a control signal based on the difference between the on-time and the off-time and compensates a first signal representative of a current of a resonant tank of the converter using the control signal. The controller generates the switching signal based on the compensated first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventor: Giulio Renato CORVA
  • Patent number: 8446137
    Abstract: A method of controlling a pulse width modulated (PWM) voltage regulator including a control circuit of a power stage, and a circuit configured to determine a duration of charge phases and further configured to receive a charge signal and to generate a logic command may include controlling, using the control circuit, switches of the power stage as a function of the logic command at an end of a charge phase and at a start of a discharge phase of an output capacitance. The method may also include generating the charge signal to be one of enabled and disabled during charge phases and another of enabled and disabled during discharge phases, and delaying, at each PWM cycle, the logic command with respect to a previous PWM cycle to compensate at least one of a phase and a frequency difference between each PWM cycle and a reference clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.R.L.
    Inventors: Adalberto Mariani, Giulio Renato Corva
  • Publication number: 20110148372
    Abstract: A method of controlling a pulse width modulated (PWM) voltage regulator including a control circuit of a power stage, and a circuit configured to determine a duration of charge phases and further configured to receive a charge signal and to generate a logic command may include controlling, using the control circuit, switches of the power stage as a function of the logic command at an end of a charge phase and at a start of a discharge phase of an output capacitance. The method may also include generating the charge signal to be one of enabled and disabled during charge phases and another of enabled and disabled during discharge phases, and delaying, at each PWM cycle, the logic command with respect to a previous PWM cycle to compensate at least one of a phase and a frequency difference between each PWM cycle and a reference clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Adalberto Mariani, Giulio Renato Corva