Patents by Inventor Grady Wood

Grady Wood 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: 20120272109
    Abstract: A tester is configured to access and test each redundant channel of a voter. The tester is disposed between the voter and a multitude of redundant circuits supplying redundant channel signals to the voter. The tester includes a number of input ports receiving the redundant channel signals as well as the test signals. In response to a number of logic combinations of the test signals, the voter generates output signals each corresponding to one of the redundant channel signals. In response to other logic combinations of the test signals, the voter generates a voted output signal. The voter is optionally a majority voter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: INTERSIL AMERICAS INC.
    Inventors: Harold William Satterfield, Grady Wood
  • Patent number: 8209591
    Abstract: A tester is configured to access and test each redundant channel of a voter. The tester is disposed between the voter and a multitude of redundant circuits supplying redundant channel signals to the voter. The tester includes a number of input ports receiving the redundant channel signals as well as the test signals. In response to a number of logic combinations of the test signals, the voter generates output signals each corresponding to one of the redundant channel signals. In response to other logic combinations of the test signals, the voter generates a voted output signal. The voter is optionally a majority voter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Intersil Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Harold William Satterfield, Grady Wood
  • Publication number: 20100106448
    Abstract: A tester is configured to access and test each redundant channel of a voter. The tester is disposed between the voter and a multitude of redundant circuits supplying redundant channel signals to the voter. The tester includes a number of input ports receiving the redundant channel signals as well as the test signals. In response to a number of logic combinations of the test signals, the voter generates output signals each corresponding to one of the redundant channel signals. In response to other logic combinations of the test signals, the voter generates a voted output signal. The voter is optionally a majority voter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: INTERSIL AMERCAS INC.
    Inventors: Harold William Satterfield, Grady Wood
  • Publication number: 20060017424
    Abstract: A current averaging circuit for averaging a piecewise linear switching current waveform of a PWM power converter including first, second and third sample and hold circuits and a sample averaging circuit. The first sample and hold circuit samples a short duration of the current waveform for each PWM cycle and provides corresponding short samples. The second sample and hold circuit samples a long duration of each PWM cycle and provides corresponding long samples. The sample averaging circuit is coupled to the first and second sample and hold circuits, averages corresponding ones of the short and long samples and provides corresponding average values. The third sample and hold circuit samples each average value and provides a current average signal. The waveform may include ramp-on-a-step voltage pulses representing switching current. The current average signal is updated after each current pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: Intersil Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Grady Wood, Fred Greenfeld
  • Publication number: 20050104540
    Abstract: A multiplexed high voltage DC-AC driver including multiple DC-AC switches and decoder logic. Each DC-AC switch receives an input DC voltage and is operative, when enabled, to toggle its output at a rate based on a master clock signal and at a voltage based on the input DC voltage. The DC-AC switches include one or more high side switches and a low side switch. The low side switch includes a clock inverter and operates out-of-phase relative to each high side switch. The decoder logic enables selected ones of the high side switches and enables the low side switch when any high side switch is enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: Intersil Americas Inc.
    Inventor: Grady Wood