Patents by Inventor Kai-Yu Hu

Kai-Yu Hu 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: 10811966
    Abstract: A digital constant on-time controller adaptable to a direct-current (DC)-to-DC converter includes a current sensing circuit that senses stored energy of the DC-to-DC converter, thereby generating a sense voltage; a semi-amplitude detector that detects half of a peak-to-peak amplitude of the sense voltage, thereby generating a semi-amplitude voltage; a DC voltage detector that detects a DC voltage across an effective series resistor of an energy storage circuit that provides the stored energy of the DC-to-DC converter, thereby generating a DC voltage; an arithmetic device that adds the sense voltage and the semi-amplitude voltage, from which the DC voltage and a predetermined reference signal are subtracted; and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator that generates a switch control signal according to a result of the arithmetic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Kai-Yu Hu, Chien-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 10291121
    Abstract: A digital constant on-time controller adaptable to a direct-current (DC)-to-DC converter includes a current sensing circuit that senses stored energy of the DC-to-DC converter, thereby generating a sense voltage; an offset cancellation circuit coupled to receive the sense voltage, thereby generating an offset-removed sense voltage according to a valley voltage of the sense voltage; a comparator that compares the offset-removed sense voltage with a reference signal; and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator that generates a switch control signal according to a comparison result of the comparator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Developmental Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Kai-Yu Hu, Chien-Hung Tsai