Patents by Inventor Pitleong Wong

Pitleong Wong 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: 20240120849
    Abstract: Disclosed is a protection circuit of a flyback converter and a control method. The protection circuit comprises: an active discharge module, for providing a discharge path between a first current terminal and a second current terminal of a switch transistor in a resonance circuit, and controlling turning-on and turning-off of the discharge path according to a discharge enable signal; in the normal work state of the flyback converter, the discharge path is disconnected, the resonance circuit works, before the flyback converter is restarted, the discharge path is turned on for a predetermined time period to release charges stored in the resonance circuit, and the resonance current after the flyback converter is restarted is reduced to the safe work current of the second switch transistor. The resonance current is discharged before the flyback converter is restarted, thus reducing the resonance current and enhancing system stability and security.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xianghua JIANG, Junming ZHANG, PITLEONG WONG, XIANGYONG XU
  • Publication number: 20240120831
    Abstract: Disclosed is a protection circuit of a flyback converter and a control method. The protection circuit comprises: an active discharge module, connected to at least one end of a first capacitor in a resonance circuit of the flyback converter to provide a discharge path, and controlling turning-on and turning-off of the discharge path according to the discharge enable signal; in a normal work state, the discharge path is disconnected, the first capacitor works as a resonance capacitor; before the flyback converter is restarted, the discharge path is turned on for a predetermined time period to release charges of the first capacitor, a resonance current after the flyback converter is restarted is reduced to a safe work current of the second switch transistor. Charges stored in the first capacitor can be discharged to release before the flyback converter is restarted to reduce the resonance current and enhance system stability and security.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xianghua JIANG, Junming ZHANG, PITLEONG WONG, XIANGYONG XU
  • Publication number: 20240072655
    Abstract: A supply circuit and a switched mode power supply (SMPS) are provided. The supply circuit includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a charging-discharging control circuit; the first capacitor includes a first terminal connected to a switching node, and a second terminal for providing a first supply voltage; the second capacitor includes a first terminal connected to a reference ground or a first potential terminal under control of the charging-discharging control circuit, and a second terminal for providing a second supply voltage; and according to a charging-discharging enable signal, the charging-discharging control circuit charges the second capacitor in a first time period and discharges the second capacitor in a second time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pitleong WONG, Weijun MAO
  • Publication number: 20230386419
    Abstract: A light source driving circuit and a communication device for a display system are provided. The communication device includes a control unit and at least one string light source driving circuit. The control unit includes an output interface for transmitting the control commands or data and a reading back data input interface. Each string light source driving circuit includes a plurality of light source driving circuits. The control unit transmits the control commands or data to the first light source driving circuit of each string light source driving circuit through the output interface. The first driving circuit takes out the commands or data required at the current stage after receiving the control command or data, and then repackages the commands or data of the remaining driving circuits, and transmits the repackaged data packet through the serial output interface and the parallel interfaces or the parallel interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pitleong WONG, Duo LI
  • Publication number: 20230386420
    Abstract: A light source driving circuit and a communication device for display system are provided. The communication device includes a control unit and at least one string light source driving circuit. The control unit includes an output interface for transmitting control commands or data and a data reading back input interface. Each string light source driving circuit includes a plurality of light source driving circuits, and each light source driving circuit interface includes a serial input interface, a serial output interface, parallel interfaces, and at least one current output interface. The serial input interface and serial output interface of the plurality of light source driving circuits are cascaded with each other as a first channel of the control commands or data transmission. The parallel interfaces of each driving circuit in the plurality of driving circuits are coupled with each other as a second channel of the control commands and data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pitleong WONG, Duo LI
  • Publication number: 20230387784
    Abstract: A control circuit and control method for a switched capacitor converter (SCC) are provided. An adjustment circuit makes adjustment with a small pull-down current, such that two terminal voltages of a flying capacitor are consistent with an output voltage. Before the SCC works formally for voltage conversion, the two terminal voltages of the flying capacitor are the same as the output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pitleong WONG
  • Patent number: 11799310
    Abstract: An X-capacitor discharge method applied to a switched-mode power supply, wherein the switched-mode power supply comprises an X-capacitor, a rectifier circuit and a switching circuit; the X-capacitor discharge method comprises: arranging a first diode, wherein an anode of the first diode is connected to a first end of the X-capacitor, and a cathode of the first diode is configured as a first node; when it is detected that a voltage of the first node is higher than a first voltage threshold, pulling down the first node through a first sampling current, and performing a timing; and if a time for which the voltage of the first node continues to be higher than the first voltage threshold reaches a first threshold time, pulling down the first node through a first pull-down current. An X-capacitor discharge circuit applied to the switched-mode power supply is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Mengyi Huang
  • Publication number: 20230328854
    Abstract: A dimming method and a dimming circuit for driving LED load are provided. The dimming circuit includes a power stage circuit, and the power stage circuit includes a power switch transistor. After the power stage circuit enters the DCM working mode, it obtains a first integral value according to the inductance current in a switch period of the power switch transistor, and obtains second time according to the first integral value and a duty cycle of a PWM dimming signal; when the switch period reaches the second time, the power switch transistor is controlled to be turned on to start the next switch period; a first upper limit voltage is set to a fixed voltage; the power switch transistor is controlled to be turned off when a sampling signal of the inductance current representing the inductance current of the power stage circuit reaches the first upper limit voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pitleong WONG
  • Patent number: 11757367
    Abstract: A flyback switching circuit and control method thereof is disclosed, by setting a reference value greater than zero configured for controlling a turn-off time of a first transistor of the flyback switching circuit, a drain-source voltage of a main power transistor of the flyback switching circuit is consistent with the reference value greater than zero before the main power transistor is turned on, so that a turn-on power consumption of the main power transistor is reduced and a system efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Yang Yang
  • Publication number: 20230282156
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LED driver circuit, a multi-wire communication device and a method for an LED display system. The device comprises a controller providing at least one of a configuration data packet, a brightness data packet, and a display data packet; the LED driver circuits, wherein the LED driver circuits are cascaded to provide a first data channel using first data ports and second data ports, the LED driver circuits are connected in parallel to provide a second data channel using third data ports. The device relays an enable signal or an address data packet stage by stage using the first data channel, transmit at least one of the configuration data packet, the brightness data packet and the display data packet in parallel using the second data channel. The number of the cascaded LED driver circuits can be infinite, the number of data wires is reduced, data rate is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pitleong WONG
  • Publication number: 20230147234
    Abstract: A dynamic automotive turn signal circuit includes at least one drive control module configured to receive a power supply signal from a body control module (BCM) to start operation, where the drive control module outputs first control signals at different delays through a delay unit; and a light emitting diode (LED) light set connected to the drive control module and lit based on the first control signals. A dynamic automotive turn signal system is further provided. The dynamic automotive turn signal circuit and the dynamic automotive turn signal system uses an external resistor to preset a high-precision delay circuit to realize the function of dynamic flowing turn signals. The external resistor can be used to configure a turn-on delay and a turn-off delay of the internal driver chip, such that the channel turn-on time and turn-off time can be flexibly adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pitleong WONG, Jianyu XIE
  • Publication number: 20220352738
    Abstract: A charging control method of power supply equipment and power supply equipment are provided. The power supply equipment includes a power stage circuit and a battery. An input power supply charges the battery through the power stage circuit. The power stage circuit includes a linear regulator and a switched capacitor converter. The linear regulator is connected with the switched capacitor converter. The linear regulator and/or the switched capacitor converter are/is selected for charging management according to charging power of the battery and/or a voltage of the battery. The charging control method can achieve relatively high charging efficiency when the battery is charged with a large current, and can achieve accurate control of the voltage of the battery when the battery is charged with a small current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pitleong Wong
  • Patent number: 11463079
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power transistor driving method. When a power transistor is turned off, a drain-source voltage of the power transistor is detected, and when the power transistor is an N-type component, and a change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with time is lower than a first slope threshold, the power transistor is pulled down in a first current; when the change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with the time is higher than the first slope threshold, a driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a second current; and when the change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with the time is lower than the first slope threshold again, a pull-down switch is turned on or the driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a third current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Liyu Lin, Xunwei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220216701
    Abstract: An X-capacitor discharge method applied to a switched-mode power supply, wherein the switched-mode power supply comprises an X-capacitor, a rectifier circuit and a switching circuit; the X-capacitor discharge method comprises: arranging a first diode, wherein an anode of the first diode is connected to a first end of the X-capacitor, and a cathode of the first diode is configured as a first node; when it is detected that a voltage of the first node is higher than a first voltage threshold, pulling down the first node through a first sampling current, and performing a timing; and if a time for which the voltage of the first node continues to be higher than the first voltage threshold reaches a first threshold time, pulling down the first node through a first pull-down current. An X-capacitor discharge circuit applied to the switched-mode power supply is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Mengyi HUANG
  • Publication number: 20220006393
    Abstract: A flyback switching circuit and control method thereof is disclosed, by setting a reference value greater than zero configured for controlling a turn-off time of a first transistor of the flyback switching circuit, a drain-source voltage of a main power transistor of the flyback switching circuit is consistent with the reference value greater than zero before the main power transistor is turned on, so that a turn-on power consumption of the main power transistor is reduced and a system efficiency is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pitleong WONG, Yang YANG
  • Patent number: 11218136
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power transistor driving method, a driving circuit and a switching circuit. When the power transistor is an N-type component, a driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a first current, and when a time period recorded by the timer reaches a first time period, a pull-down switch is turned on or the driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a second current; the driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down by the pull-down switch; when a timer is started from a moment at which the power transistor is turned off, the first time period is higher than a time period from a moment at which a switching tube is turned off to a moment at which the change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with the time is higher than the first slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Liyu Lin, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11165355
    Abstract: A clamping switch abnormality detection method, a clamping switch abnormality detection circuit and a switch circuit are provided, wherein an active clamping flyback circuit includes a clamping switch, a main switch and a transformer. When a clamping switch control signal is active, a switching node voltage or a voltage on an auxiliary winding or an magnetizing inductor current is detected, and when the switching node voltage or the voltage on the auxiliary winding or the magnetizing inductor current oscillates, or the switching node voltage is less than a first voltage threshold or the voltage on the auxiliary winding is less than a second voltage threshold, the clamping switch is abnormal or a clamping switch driving circuit is abnormal. The switching node is a common node of the transformer and the main switch, and the transformer includes a primary winding, a secondary winding and the auxiliary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Xianghua Jiang, Xunwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11152866
    Abstract: An active clamping flyback circuit and a control method are disclosed, comprising a flyback circuit, a clamping circuit and a clamping control circuit. The active clamping flyback circuit comprises a transformer, a main transistor, and a freewheeling diode or a synchronous rectifier, an output feedback circuit is coupling to an auxiliary winding of the transformer and outputs a feedback voltage through a divided voltage The clamping circuit comprises a first capacitor and a first transistor coupling in series, In a discontinuous conduction mode, the clamping control circuit starts timing from a turn-off time of the first transistor, and ends timing until the feedback voltage is reduced to zero voltage, to obtain a first time, The clamping control circuit adjusts a turn-off moment of next switching cycle of the first transistor so that the first time of the next switching cycle is close to a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: JOULWATT TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Xianghua Jiang, Xunwei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210152094
    Abstract: A clamping switch abnormality detection method, a clamping switch abnormality detection circuit and a switch circuit are provided, wherein an active clamping flyback circuit includes a clamping switch, a main switch and a transformer. When a clamping switch control signal is active, a switching node voltage or a voltage on an auxiliary winding or an magnetizing inductor current is detected, and when the switching node voltage or the voltage on the auxiliary winding or the magnetizing inductor current oscillates, or the switching node voltage is less than a first voltage threshold or the voltage on the auxiliary winding is less than a second voltage threshold, the clamping switch is abnormal or a clamping switch driving circuit is abnormal. The switching node is a common node of the transformer and the main switch, and the transformer includes a primary winding, a secondary winding and the auxiliary winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou)Co.,LTD.
    Inventors: Pitleong Wong, Xianghua JIANG, Xunwei ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210152159
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power transistor driving method, a driving circuit and a switching circuit. When the power transistor is an N-type component, a driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a first current, and when a time period recorded by the timer reaches a first time period, a pull-down switch is turned on or the driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down in a second current; the driving pole of the power transistor is pulled down by the pull-down switch; when a timer is started from a moment at which the power transistor is turned off, the first time period is higher than a time period from a moment at which a switching tube is turned off to a moment at which the change rate of the drain-source voltage of the power transistor along with the time is higher than the first slope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Pitleong WONG, Liyu LIN, Xunwei ZHOU