Patents by Inventor Robert Andrew Phelps

Robert Andrew Phelps 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: 10498327
    Abstract: An overvoltage detector for an RF switch is disclosed. The overvoltage detector is made up of circuitry having a detector output that couples to a controller, a body voltage input that couples to a charge pump, and a body voltage output that couples to a body terminal of the RF switch. The overvoltage detector is configured to detect an overvoltage across the RF switch by monitoring body leakage current flowing between the body voltage input and the body voltage output. Upon detecting body leakage current over a predetermined level, the overvoltage detector generates an overvoltage signal at the detector output to indicate an overvoltage across the RF switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric K. Bolton, Daniel Charles Kerr, Christian Rye Iversen, Robert Andrew Phelps
  • Publication number: 20170244402
    Abstract: An overvoltage detector for an RF switch is disclosed. The overvoltage detector is made up of circuitry having a detector output that couples to a controller, a body voltage input that couples to a charge pump, and a body voltage output that couples to a body terminal of the RF switch. The overvoltage detector is configured to detect an overvoltage across the RF switch by monitoring body leakage current flowing between the body voltage input and the body voltage output. Upon detecting body leakage current over a predetermined level, the overvoltage detector generates an overvoltage signal at the detector output to indicate an overvoltage across the RF switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Eric K. Bolton, Daniel Charles Kerr, Christian Rye Iversen, Robert Andrew Phelps
  • Patent number: 9240770
    Abstract: Disclosed is a harmonic cancellation circuit for an RF switch branch having a first transistor with a first gate terminal and a first body terminal, a second transistor having a second gate terminal coupled to the first body terminal, and having a second body terminal coupled to the first gate terminal. Also included is a first resistor coupled between a first coupling node and the second body terminal, and a second resistor coupled between a second coupling node and the first body terminal, wherein the first transistor and second transistor are adapted to generate an inverse phase third harmonic signal relative to a third harmonic signal generated by the RF switch branch, such that the inverse phase third harmonic signal is output through the first resistor and the second resistor to the RF switch branch to reduce the third harmonic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Charles Kerr, Eric K. Bolton, Robert Andrew Phelps
  • Publication number: 20140266415
    Abstract: Disclosed is a harmonic cancellation circuit for an RF switch branch having a first transistor with a first gate terminal and a first body terminal, a second transistor having a second gate terminal coupled to the first body terminal, and having a second body terminal coupled to the first gate terminal. Also included is a first resistor coupled between a first coupling node and the second body terminal, and a second resistor coupled between a second coupling node and the first body terminal, wherein the first transistor and second transistor are adapted to generate an inverse phase third harmonic signal relative to a third harmonic signal generated by the RF switch branch, such that the inverse phase third harmonic signal is output through the first resistor and the second resistor to the RF switch branch to reduce the third harmonic signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Charles Kerr, Eric K. Bolton, Robert Andrew Phelps