Patents by Inventor Sorin Laurentiu Negru
Sorin Laurentiu Negru 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).
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Publication number: 20240120850Abstract: A power converter including an inductor, a first power switch, a second power switch, a third power switch, a fourth power switch, a sixth power switch, a first flying capacitor, a third flying capacitor, a seventh power switch, an eighth power switch, a ninth power switch, a tenth power switch, a twelfth power switch, a second flying capacitor, and a fourth flying capacitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Renesas Design (UK) LimitedInventors: Sorin Laurentiu NEGRU, Sabin EFTIMIE
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Patent number: 11855474Abstract: A method of charging a battery having a first voltage and a second voltage. In a first phase, applying a constant current to the battery; in a second phase, applying current pulses to the battery; repeating iteratively sampling the first voltage during a current pulse to obtain a measurement of the first voltage; sampling the first voltage during a current pause to obtain a measurement of the second voltage; generating a dynamic reference voltage based on the fixed reference voltage and on a difference between the measurement of the first voltage and the second voltage. There is a comparing the measurement of the first voltage with the dynamic reference voltage. There is a stopping of the current pulses when the measurement of the first voltage is equal to the dynamic reference voltage and the measurement of the second voltage is equal to the fixed reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) LimitedInventor: Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Publication number: 20220311260Abstract: A method of charging a battery having a first voltage and a second voltage. In a first phase, applying a constant current to the battery; in a second phase, applying current pulses to the battery; repeating iteratively sampling the first voltage during a current pulse to obtain a measurement of the first voltage; sampling the first voltage during a current pause to obtain a measurement of the second voltage; generating a dynamic reference voltage based on the fixed reference voltage and on a difference between the measurement of the first voltage and the second voltage. There is a comparing the measurement of the first voltage with the dynamic reference voltage. There is a stopping of the current pulses when the measurement of the first voltage is equal to the dynamic reference voltage and the measurement of the second voltage is equal to the fixed reference voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventor: Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 10033199Abstract: A reconfigurable multi-battery pack system for inclusion in a hand held device for more efficiently energizing battery powered operation of both a buck DC-DC converter and a boost DC-DC converter included in the device. Also disclosed is a power management circuit that autonomously: 1. connects the batteries in parallel during battery recharging; and 2. connects at least two (2) of the batteries in series when the batteries are not being recharged and are energizing operation of the DC-DC converters.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) LimitedInventor: Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 9917510Abstract: A system and method of increasing the efficiency in multi-stage power converters by providing an open loop charge pump stage which reacts in part based on information from a closed loop multi-phase buck converter stage.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: DIALOG SEMICONDUCTOR (UK) LIMITEDInventors: Ershad Ahmed, Sorin Laurentiu Negru, Chi-Man Ng, Alin Gherghescu
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Publication number: 20180026526Abstract: A system and method of increasing the efficiency in multi-stage power converters by providing an open loop charge pump stage which reacts in part based on information from a closed loop multi-phase buck converter stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Ershad Ahmed, Sorin Laurentiu Negru, Chi-Man Ng, Alin Gherghescu
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Publication number: 20170012443Abstract: A reconfigurable multi-battery pack system for inclusion in a hand held device for more efficiently energizing battery powered operation of both a buck DC-DC converter and a boost DC-DC converter included in the device. Also disclosed is a power management circuit that autonomously: 1. connects the batteries in parallel during battery recharging; and 2. connects at least two (2) of the batteries in series when the batteries are not being recharged and are energizing operation of the DC-DC converters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventor: Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 9461487Abstract: A reconfigurable multi-battery pack system for inclusion in a hand held device for more efficiently energizing battery powered operation of both a buck DC-DC converter and a boost DC-DC converter included in the device. Also disclosed is a power management circuit that autonomously: 1. connects the batteries in parallel during battery recharging; and 2. connects at least two (2) of the batteries in series when the batteries are not being recharged and are energizing operation of the DC-DC converters.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) LimitedInventor: Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 9307590Abstract: An electrical current (“I”) digital-to-analog converter (“IDAC”) (60) supplies a specified electrical current to at least one light emitting diode. The IDAC (60) includes a plurality of current sources/sinks (26): a. that are connected in parallel so a total amount of current flowing through the at least one LED equals the sum of their individual electrical currents; and b. at any instant in time individual current sources/sinks (26) are either: 1. turned on: or 2. turned off. When the specified electrical current being supplied exceeds a pre-established threshold (94), a sequence of individual current sources/sinks (26) are turned on ever more quickly to produce a. non-linearly increasing electrical current.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) LimitedInventors: Sorin Laurentiu Negru, Sule Cetin, Parinda Mekara
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Publication number: 20160066371Abstract: An electrical current (“I”) digital-to-analog converter (“IDAC”) (60) supplies a specified electrical current to at least one light emitting diode. The IDAC (60) a plurality of current sources/sinks (26): a. that are connected in parallel so a total amount of current flowing through the at least one LED equals the sum of their individual electrical currents; and b. at any instant in time individual current sources/sinks (26) are either: 1. turned on: or 2. turned off. When the specified electrical current being supplied exceeds a pre-established threshold (94), a sequence of individual current sources/sinks (26) are turned on ever more quickly to produce a non-linearly increasing electrical current.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Sorin Laurentiu Negru, Sule Cetin, Parinda Mekara
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Publication number: 20150188331Abstract: A reconfigurable multi-battery pack system for inclusion in a hand held device for more efficiently energizing battery powered operation of both a buck DC-DC converter and a boost DC-DC converter included in the device. Also disclosed is a power management circuit that autonomously: 1. connects the batteries in parallel during battery recharging; and 2. connects at least two (2) of the batteries in series when the batteries are not being recharged and are energizing operation of the DC-DC converters.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventor: Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 7633463Abstract: A LED driver is connectible to several series connected RGB LEDs which connect in series with a current generator. A plurality of LED switches are respectively connectible across one RGB LED. Each LED switch, operating in response to a binary signal is either open to permit electrical current to flow through the RGB LED, or closed to shunt current around that RGB LED. By varying respective duty cycles of the binary signals the LED driver is adapted for controlling operation of the combined RGB LEDs so they emit differing colors of light. An adaptive boost converter LED driver continuously adjusts voltage applied across the series connected RGB LEDs to be only that required for operating those LEDs through which open LED switches permit current to flow.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventor: Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Publication number: 20090033373Abstract: A programmable after-package, on-chip reference voltage trim circuit for an integrated circuit having a plurality of programmable trim cells generating a programmed sequence. A converter is provided to convert the bit sequence into a trim current. The trim current is added to an initial value of a reference voltage to be trimmed, as generated by the integrated circuit. Once the correct value of the trim current is determined, isolation circuitry is programmed to isolate the trim circuitry from the remainder of the IC, thereby freeing the logic and package pins associated with the IC for use by users of the IC. The preferred trim circuitry includes fuses which are blown in accordance with a bit value supplied to the trim cell to permanently fix a trim current value, once a best fit value is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: O2Micro International LimitedInventors: You-Yuh Shyr, Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 7436222Abstract: A programmable after-package, on-chip reference voltage trim circuit for an integrated circuit having a plurality of programmable trim cells generating a programmed sequence. A converter is provided to convert the bit sequence into a trim current. The trim current is added to an initial value of a reference voltage to be trimmed, as generated by the integrated circuit. Once the correct value of the trim current is determined, isolation circuitry is programmed to isolate the trim circuitry from the remainder of the IC, thereby freeing the logic and package pins associated with the IC for use by users of the IC. The preferred trim circuitry includes fuses which are blown in accordance with a bit value supplied to the trim cell to permanently fix a trim current value, once a best fit value is determined.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: O2Micro International LimitedInventors: You-Yuh Shyr, Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 7319346Abstract: A programmable after-package, on-chip reference voltage trim circuit for an integrated circuit having a plurality of programmable trim cells generating a programmed sequence. A converter is provided to convert the bit sequence into a trim current. The trim current is added to an initial value of a reference voltage to be trimmed, as generated by the integrated circuit. Once the correct value of the trim current is determined, isolation circuitry is programmed to isolate the trim circuitry from the remainder of the IC, thereby freeing the logic and package pins associated with the IC for use by users of the IC. The preferred trim circuitry includes fuses which are blown in accordance with a bit value supplied to the trim cell to permanently fix a trim current value, once a best fit value is determined.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: O2Micro International LimitedInventors: You-Yuh Shyr, Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Publication number: 20070170980Abstract: A constant current output charge pump includes a switch module configured to compare a reference voltage with a load voltage and output a switch signal, a voltage margin control module configured to compare a first voltage and a second voltage with an output voltage and output a voltage margin control signal, a clock control module, a charge pump module, a current control module and a load module. The clock control module is configured to capture the switch signal and the voltage margin control signal and output a first clock signal and a second clock signal according to a system to the charge pump module for charging the input voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2006Publication date: July 26, 2007Applicant: California Micro Devices CorporationInventors: Jean-Shin Wu, Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Publication number: 20040216019Abstract: A programmable after-package, on-chip reference voltage trim circuit for an integrated circuit having a plurality of programmable trim cells generating a programmed sequence. A converter is provided to convert the bit sequence into a trim current. The trim current is added to an initial value of a reference voltage to be trimmed, as generated by the integrated circuit. Once the correct value of the trim current is determined, isolation circuitry is programmed to isolate the trim circuitry from the remainder of the IC, thereby freeing the logic and package pins associated with the IC for use by users of the IC. The preferred trim circuitry includes fuses which are blown in accordance with a bit value supplied to the trim cell to permanently fix a trim current value, once a best fit value is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Inventors: You-Yuh Shyr, Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 6720800Abstract: A programmable after-package, on-chip reference voltage trim circuit for an integrated circuit having a plurality of programmable trim cells generating a programmed sequence. A converter is provided to convert the bit sequence into a trim current. The trim current is added to an initial value of a reference voltage to be trimmed, as generated by the integrated circuit. Once the correct value of the trim current is determined, isolation circuitry is programmed to isolate the trim circuitry from the remainder of the IC, thereby freeing the logic and package pins associated with the IC for use by users of the IC. The preferred trim circuitry includes fuses which are blown in accordance with a bit value supplied to the trim cell to permanently fix a trim current value, once a best fit value is determined.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: 02Micro International LimitedInventors: You-Yuh Shyr, Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Publication number: 20030085741Abstract: A programmable after-package, on-chip reference voltage trim circuit for an integrated circuit having a plurality of programmable trim cells generating a programmed sequence. A converter is provided to convert the bit sequence into a trim current. The trim current is added to an initial value of a reference voltage to be trimmed, as generated by the integrated circuit. Once the correct value of the trim current is determined, isolation circuitry is programmed to isolate the trim circuitry from the remainder of the IC, thereby freeing the logic and package pins associated with the IC for use by users of the IC. The preferred trim circuitry includes fuses which are blown in accordance with a bit value supplied to the trim cell to permanently fix a trim current value, once a best fit value is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Inventors: You-Yuh Shyr, Sorin Laurentiu Negru
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Patent number: 6504735Abstract: A DC-DC converter for converting DC power received from a high-voltage DC power supply to a well-regulated output voltage that is significantly lower than the received voltage. The converter includes a regulated voltage-reduction stage which receives high-voltage DC electrical power and supplies DC electrical power at a voltage which is lower than that received. The converter also includes a separately regulated electrically isolated stage, energized by electrical power received from the voltage-reduction stage, that supplies DC electrical power to a load at the significantly lower output voltage. A feedback circuit couples an output signal from the output of the isolation-stage for regulating operation of the voltage-reduction stage and of the isolation stage.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: 02 Micro International Ltd.Inventors: Sorin Laurentiu Negru, Gabriel Andreis Nicolescu