Patents by Inventor Suhua Luo

Suhua Luo 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: 11545902
    Abstract: A multiphase switching converter has a plurality of switching circuits coupled in parallel, and a plurality of control circuits configured in a daisy chain. Each control circuit receives a phase input signal, and provides a phase output signal and a switching control signal for controlling a corresponding switching circuit. One of the control circuits is a master control circuit, if a fault is detected by the master control circuit, then the master control circuit provides the phase output signal satisfying a master transfer type, and then the master control circuit changes to a slave control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Suhua Luo
  • Patent number: 11387736
    Abstract: A multiphase switching converter has a plurality of switching circuits coupled in parallel, and a plurality of control circuits configured in a daisy chain. Each control circuit receives a phase input signal, and provides a phase output signal and a switching control signal for controlling a corresponding switching circuit. One of the plurality of control circuits is master control circuit to provide the phase output signal and the switching control signal based on a turn-on control signal and the phase input signal. When a combination of the phase output signal and the switching control signal provided by the master control circuit meets a phase transfer type, the phase output signal of the master control circuit equals the turn-on control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Suhua Luo
  • Patent number: 11342848
    Abstract: A multiphase switching converter has a plurality of switching circuits coupled in parallel, and a plurality of control circuits configured in a daisy chain. Each control circuit receives a phase input signal, and provides a phase output signal and a switching control signal for controlling a corresponding switching circuit. When a current sense signal is less than a phase shedding threshold, and if a corresponding one of the control circuits is a last one in the daisy chain or if a pulse on the phase input signal lasts within a preset time period, then a corresponding one of the switching circuits stops a power output, and the phase output signal equals the phase input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Suhua Luo
  • Publication number: 20210288579
    Abstract: A multiphase switching converter has a plurality of switching circuits coupled in parallel, and a plurality of control circuits configured in a daisy chain. Each control circuit receives a phase input signal, and provides a phase output signal and a switching control signal for controlling a corresponding switching circuit. When a current sense signal is less than a phase shedding threshold, and if a corresponding one of the control circuits is a last one in the daisy chain or if a pulse on the phase input signal lasts within a preset time period, then a corresponding one of the switching circuits stops a power output, and the phase output signal equals the phase input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Suhua Luo
  • Publication number: 20210288578
    Abstract: A multiphase switching converter has a plurality of switching circuits coupled in parallel, and a plurality of control circuits configured in a daisy chain. Each control circuit receives a phase input signal, and provides a phase output signal and a switching control signal for controlling a corresponding switching circuit. One of the plurality of control circuits is master control circuit to provide the phase output signal and the switching control signal based on a turn-on control signal and the phase input signal. When a combination of the phase output signal and the switching control signal provided by the master control circuit meets a phase transfer type, the phase output signal of the master control circuit equals the turn-on control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Suhua Luo
  • Publication number: 20210288580
    Abstract: A multiphase switching converter has a plurality of switching circuits coupled in parallel, and a plurality of control circuits configured in a daisy chain. Each control circuit receives a phase input signal, and provides a phase output signal and a switching control signal for controlling a corresponding switching circuit. One of the control circuits is a master control circuit, if a fault is detected by the master control circuit, then the master control circuit provides the phase output signal satisfying a master transfer type, and then the master control circuit changes to a slave control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Suhua Luo
  • Patent number: 10996732
    Abstract: A power supply has a reference regulation circuit and a voltage regulator. The reference regulation circuit receives a VID code and a slew rate command from a processor and regulates a reference voltage based on the VID code and the slew rate command. The voltage regulator converts an input voltage to an output voltage based on the reference voltage. The circuit has a ?-? modulation unit to generate a count duration signal based on a target count signal, wherein the target count signal is generated by dividing a voltage regulation step by the slew rate command, both the target count signal and the count duration signal are digital signals, the target count signal represents a real number having an integer part and a decimal part, the count duration signal represents an integer number, the circuit further regulates the reference voltage based on the count duration signal and the VID code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suhua Luo, Lijie Jiang
  • Patent number: 10965140
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a battery charging circuit having at least one switch, includes: generating a first difference signal based on the difference between a charging current feedback signal and a charging current reference signal; generating a bias reference signal by proportionally integrating the first difference signal when the battery voltage is higher than a first threshold and less than a second threshold; generating a bias signal by proportionally integrating the difference between the sum of the bias reference signal and a system voltage reference signal and a system voltage feedback signal; generating a comparison signal by comparing the sum of the system voltage feedback signal and a ramp signal with the sum of the bias signal and the system voltage reference signal; and generating a control signal for controlling the at least one switch based on the comparison signal and a constant time period control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hangzhou MPS Semiconductor Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Suhua Luo, Pengpeng Ma
  • Patent number: 10951049
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a battery charging circuit having at least one switch, includes: generating a first difference signal based on a charging current feedback signal and a charging current reference signal; generating a second difference signal based on a battery voltage feedback signal and a battery voltage reference signal; based on a battery voltage, selecting one of the first and second difference signals, and a ground voltage as a third difference signal; generating a bias signal by proportionally integrating the third difference signal; comparing the sum of a system voltage feedback signal and a ramp signal with the sum of the bias signal and a system voltage reference signal and generating a comparison signal; generating a control signal to control the at least one switch of based on the comparison signal and a constant time period control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suhua Luo, Pengpeng Ma
  • Patent number: 10790737
    Abstract: A current threshold regulation method is used in a switching converter with a tank element and a transistor. The current threshold regulation method includes: detecting whether the input voltage is lower than an input under voltage threshold and generating an input under voltage indication signal; detecting whether the output voltage is lower than an output under voltage threshold and generating an output under voltage indication signal; generating a current threshold based on the input under voltage indication signal and output under voltage indication signal; comparing a current flowing though the tank element with the current threshold and generating a current comparison signal; and generating a control signal based on the current comparison signal to control the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suhua Luo, Qian Ouyang, Wei Yuan, Pengpeng Ma
  • Patent number: 10725938
    Abstract: An auto-loop regulation system for a voltage regulator receives a plurality of pre-determined loop parameters through an interactive computing equipment, and the voltage regulator operates according to the plurality of pre-determined loop parameters, wherein the interactive computing equipment regulates at least one of the loop parameters automatically in real time according to an online loop value when the voltage regulator is operating online, and the interactive computing equipment keeps regulating the loop parameters until the online value of the voltage regulator matches with a target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Lijie Jiang, Xiaokang Wu, Suhua Luo, Qian Ouyang
  • Patent number: 10651721
    Abstract: A multi-phase converter has a plurality of switching circuits coupled in parallel and a control circuit. The control circuit provides a set signal to successively turn ON the switching circuits under power operation based on an output voltage, a reference signal and a nonlinear control signal. When a number of switching circuits under power operation decreases, the nonlinear control signal increases to a preset value from an initial value, and then the nonlinear control signal decreases to the initial value with a preset slew rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaokang Wu, Lijie Jiang, Suhua Luo
  • Publication number: 20200007023
    Abstract: A multi-phase converter has a plurality of switching circuits coupled in parallel and a control circuit. The control circuit provides a set signal to successively turn ON the switching circuits under power operation based on an output voltage, a reference signal and a nonlinear control signal. When a number of switching circuits under power operation decreases, the nonlinear control signal increases to a preset value from an initial value, and then the nonlinear control signal decreases to the initial value with a preset slew rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaokang Wu, Lijie Jiang, Suhua Luo
  • Publication number: 20200006953
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a battery charging circuit having at least one switch, includes: generating a first difference signal based on the difference between a charging current feedback signal and a charging current reference signal; generating a bias reference signal by proportionally integrating the first difference signal when the battery voltage is higher than a first threshold and less than a second threshold; generating a bias signal by proportionally integrating the difference between the sum of the bias reference signal and a system voltage reference signal and a system voltage feedback signal; generating a comparison signal by comparing the sum of the system voltage feedback signal and a ramp signal with the sum of the bias signal and the system voltage reference signal; and generating a control signal for controlling the at least one switch based on the comparison signal and a constant time period control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Suhua Luo, Pengpeng Ma
  • Publication number: 20190334429
    Abstract: A current threshold regulation method is used in a switching converter with a tank element and a transistor. The current threshold regulation method includes: detecting whether the input voltage is lower than an input under voltage threshold and generating an input under voltage indication signal; detecting whether the output voltage is lower than an output under voltage threshold and generating an output under voltage indication signal; generating a current threshold based on the input under voltage indication signal and output under voltage indication signal; comparing a current flowing though the tank element with the current threshold and generating a current comparison signal; and generating a control signal based on the current comparison signal to control the transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Suhua Luo, Qian Ouyang, Wei Yuan, Pengpeng Ma
  • Publication number: 20190294227
    Abstract: A power supply has a reference regulation circuit and a voltage regulator. The reference regulation circuit receives a VID code and a slew rate command from a processor and regulates a reference voltage based on the VID code and the slew rate command. The voltage regulator converts an input voltage to an output voltage based on the reference voltage. The circuit has a ?-? modulation unit to generate a count duration signal based on a target count signal, wherein the target count signal is generated by dividing a voltage regulation step by the slew rate command, both the target count signal and the count duration signal are digital signals, the target count signal represents a real number having an integer part and a decimal part, the count duration signal represents an integer number, the circuit further regulates the reference voltage based on the count duration signal and the VID code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Suhua Luo, Lijie Jiang
  • Publication number: 20190207392
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a battery charging circuit having at least one switch, includes: generating a first difference signal based on a charging current feedback signal and a charging current reference signal; generating a second difference signal based on a battery voltage feedback signal and a battery voltage reference signal; based on a battery voltage, selecting one of the first and second difference signals, and a ground voltage as a third difference signal; generating a bias signal by proportionally integrating the third difference signal; comparing the sum of a system voltage feedback signal and a ramp signal with the sum of the bias signal and a system voltage reference signal and generating a comparison signal; generating a control signal to control the at least one switch of based on the comparison signal and a constant time period control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Suhua Luo, Pengpeng Ma
  • Publication number: 20190129868
    Abstract: An auto-loop regulation system for a voltage regulator receives a plurality of pre-determined loop parameters through an interactive computing equipment, and the voltage regulator operates according to the plurality of pre-determined loop parameters, wherein the interactive computing equipment regulates at least one of the loop parameters automatically in real time according to an online loop value when the voltage regulator is operating online, and the interactive computing equipment keeps regulating the loop parameters until the online value of the voltage regulator matches with a target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Lijie Jiang, Xiaokang Wu, Suhua Luo, Qian Ouyang
  • Patent number: 9660534
    Abstract: A multiphase switching converter having a plurality of switching circuits and a control circuit, the plurality of switching circuits provide an output voltage, the control circuit provides a plurality of switching control signals to turn ON the plurality of switching circuits successively based on the output voltage and a reference signal, when the output voltage is detected overshooting, the control circuit turns OFF a current switching circuit, and when the output voltage is detected recovering from overshooting, the control circuit turns ON the current switching circuit again for a first time period until a sum of the first time period and a second time period achieves a predetermined value, wherein the second time period is a time period the current switching circuit maintains ON uninterruptedly before the output voltage is detected overshooting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lijie Jiang, Xiaokang Wu, Suhua Luo, Qian Ouyang, Jinghai Zhou
  • Patent number: 9479043
    Abstract: A control circuit for a switching converter having a comparison circuit, a synchronization unit, an ON-time control circuit and a logic unit, the comparison circuit provides a comparison signal based on a reference signal and an output signal of the switching converter, the synchronization unit provides a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal based on a first clock signal, a second clock signal and the comparison signal, the first synchronizing signal is generated by synchronizing the comparison signal with the first clock signal, the second synchronizing signal is generated by synchronizing the comparison signal with the second clock signal, the ON-time control circuit provides an ON-time control signal, the logic unit provides a switching control signal to control the switching converter based on the first synchronization signal, the second synchronization signal and the ON-time control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: CHENGDU MONOLITHIC POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijie Jiang, Xiaokang Wu, Suhua Luo, Qian Ouyang