Patents by Inventor Zhaozheng Hou

Zhaozheng Hou 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: 20170099005
    Abstract: A power source management method and a power source are provided. The method includes: comparing a feedforward control signal with a feedback control signal by using a logic control circuit, outputting the signals after the comparison, and performing matching, to obtain control signals of switching transistors of a full-bridge topology circuit; and adjusting the control signals of the switching transistors of the full-bridge topology circuit by using the logic control circuit, so that operating duty cycles of two bridge arms on a primary side match, are symmetric within one switch period of the logic control circuit, or match for a long time, to prevent transformer biasing. The power source management method and the power source can achieve good feedforward performance, suppress input disturbance, and additionally prevent transformer biasing, which ensures that the power source works normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Zhaozheng HOU, Xiaodong FAN, Jiebin CHENG, Zhihua LIU, Xuezhen ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9507359
    Abstract: A power supply control method and device and relates to the field of electronics, and can alleviate impact of a power supply input disturbance on an output voltage. A specific solution is as follows: sampling an input voltage to generate a sampled input voltage; performing anti-steady-state-disturbance processing on the sampled input voltage to generate a feed-forward input voltage; sampling an output voltage to generate a sampled output voltage; and combining the sampled output voltage and the feed-forward input voltage that is output by a feed-forward digital control circuit into a stability voltage. The present invention is applied to power supply control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhaozheng Hou
  • Patent number: 9436192
    Abstract: A converter comprises a high side switch, a low side switch connected in series with the high switch, a gate drive circuit comprising a first drive port coupled to a gate of the high side switch, a second drive port coupled to a gate of the low side switch, an SRE input port and a PWM input port coupled to a PWM controller, wherein the PWM controller is selected from the group consisting of a first PWM controller having two complementary PWM outputs, a second PWM controller having a tri-state PWM output and a third PWM controller having a single PWM output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Heping Dai, Hengchun Mao, Zhihua Liu, Zhaozheng Hou
  • Patent number: 9335771
    Abstract: A feedforward control method, which includes: determining, whether the input voltage rapidly changes or slowly changes; when the input voltage rapidly changes, determining, a first feedforward gain coefficient corresponding to the difference between a input voltage reference value and a first input voltage measurement value acquired by a high-speed low-precision analog-to-digital converter in a current sampling period; when the input voltage slowly changes, determining a second feedforward gain coefficient which is a ratio of the input voltage reference value to a second input voltage measurement value acquired by a low-speed high-precision analog-to-digital converter in the current sampling period; and using the first or the second feedforward gain coefficient as a feedforward gain coefficient of a current input voltage, multiplying the feedforward gain coefficient by an output value of a feedback loop of an output voltage, so as to control stable output of the output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhaozheng Hou, Chao Jia
  • Publication number: 20150346751
    Abstract: A power supply control method and device and relates to the field of electronics, and can alleviate impact of a power supply input disturbance on an output voltage. A specific solution is as follows: sampling an input voltage to generate a sampled input voltage; performing anti-steady-state-disturbance processing on the sampled input voltage to generate a feed-forward input voltage; sampling an output voltage to generate a sampled output voltage; and combining the sampled output voltage and the feed-forward input voltage that is output by a feed-forward digital control circuit into a stability voltage. The present invention is applied to power supply control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Zhaozheng Hou
  • Publication number: 20150188417
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a control apparatus applied to a digital power supply device, and a digital power supply device, and pertains to the digital power field. The control apparatus includes: an operational amplifier, an analog to digital converter, a feedback digital filter, a digital pulse-width modulator, a power-level circuit, a feedforward digital filter, and a feedback network. A feedforward function is achieved by configuring a feedforward digital filter, which reduces the number of tables that are used to implement a reciprocal curve, and avoids problems of a long operational delay, a huge resource waste, and a poor feedforward effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhaozheng HOU, Ying Li
  • Patent number: 9013340
    Abstract: A protection circuit includes: a first gain module, configured to receive a first input signal, scale the first input signal according to a first scaling factor, to obtain a first analog signal, receive a third scaling factor from a processing module, and scale the second input signal according to the third scaling factor, to obtain a second analog signal; an analog-to-digital converter, configured to convert the first analog signal into a first digital signal, and convert the second analog signal into a second digital signal; the processing module, configured to determine, according to a voltage value of the first digital signal and a preset scaling factor determining rule, the third scaling factor and a fourth scaling factor; and a second gain module, configured to scale the first digital signal according to a second scaling factor, and scale the second digital signal according to the fourth scaling factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhaozheng Hou, Ying Li
  • Patent number: 8897724
    Abstract: A fast tracking power supply includes a combined controllable voltage source to control a load voltage. The combined controllable voltage source is connected to a tracking current source in parallel to provide a current for a load. The tracking current source is responsible for providing a low-frequency high current for the load to implement high-efficiency low-frequency tracking of the load current and reducing an output current of the combined controllable voltage source as much as possible. Meanwhile, a power supply voltage switching unit in the combined controllable voltage source adjusts a power supply voltage range of a linear amplifier in the combined controllable voltage source, so as to reduce the power supply voltage range of the linear amplifier, thereby reducing power consumption of the combined controllable voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhaozheng Hou
  • Publication number: 20140327413
    Abstract: A feedforward control method, which includes: determining, whether the input voltage rapidly changes or slowly changes; when the input voltage rapidly changes, determining, a first feedforward gain coefficient corresponding to the difference between a input voltage reference value and a first input voltage measurement value acquired by a high-speed low-precision analog-to-digital converter in a current sampling period; when the input voltage slowly changes, determining a second feedforward gain coefficient which is a ratio of the input voltage reference value to a second input voltage measurement value acquired by a low-speed high-precision analog-to-digital converter in the current sampling period; and using the first or the second feedforward gain coefficient as a feedforward gain coefficient of a current input voltage, multiplying the feedforward gain coefficient by an output value of a feedback loop of an output voltage, so as to control stable output of the output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Zhaozheng Hou, Chao Jia
  • Patent number: 8744382
    Abstract: A fast tracking power supply device, a fast tracking power supply control method, and communication equipment are provided. The fast tracking power supply device includes: a basic voltage output unit, configured to output a basic voltage; a basic current unit, configured to output a basic current; a linear amplifier, configured to output a compensation current and a compensation voltage, the linear amplifier is connected in parallel with the basic current output unit, and then is connected in series with the basic voltage output unit. The device can output signal with high efficiency and bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhaozheng Hou, Xujun Liu
  • Publication number: 20140035552
    Abstract: A converter comprises a high side switch, a low side switch connected in series with the high switch, a gate drive circuit comprising a first drive port coupled to a gate of the high side switch, a second drive port coupled to a gate of the low side switch, an SRE input port and a PWM input port coupled to a PWM controller, wherein the PWM controller is selected from the group consisting of a first PWM controller having two complementary PWM outputs, a second PWM controller having a tri-state PWM output and a third PWM controller having a single PWM output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Heping Dai, Hengchun Mao, Zhihua Liu, Zhaozheng Hou
  • Patent number: 8564984
    Abstract: A soft switching apparatus comprises an energy recovery channel formed by two diodes in series connection and a resonant tank formed by an inductor and a capacitor. The soft switching apparatus is coupled to the primary side of a bridge converter. An energy transfer process during L-C resonance helps to reduce the amplitude of the current flowing through the inductor in a freewheeling period. Furthermore, the soft switching apparatus can help to reduce the voltage stress across the secondary switching devices as well as the shoot-through currents flowing through the secondary switching devices, and thus enabling the reduction or elimination of dead time in a secondary synchronous rectifier control scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hengchun Mao, Dianbo Fu, Zhaozheng Hou, Xujun Liu, Bing Cai
  • Patent number: 8488349
    Abstract: A method for tracking power supplies includes the following steps: receiving, by a controller, a signal to be tracked and outputting, according to the signal to be tracked, a control signal. The control signal controls at least two sets of voltage level selection circuits in selecting at least one tracking voltage level from at least two groups of isolation voltage levels and controls each set of the voltage level selection circuits selecting at most one tracking voltage level from a group of isolation voltage levels. An isolation power supply provides the at least two groups of isolation voltage levels according to the voltage level interval of the signal to be tracked. Each group of isolation voltage levels includes at least two tracking voltage levels. The voltage level selection circuits provide the selected tracking voltage level to supply power to a load circuit. An apparatus for tracking power supplies is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhaozheng Hou
  • Patent number: 8482351
    Abstract: A power amplifier for amplifying a signal includes: an operation amplifier stage, at least one buffer stage and an output stage which are consecutively connected with each other; a first feedback unit connected between an output end of the output stage and a negative input end of the operation amplifier stage; a second feedback unit connected between an input end of the output stage and the negative input end of the operation amplifier stage; a third feedback unit connected between an input end of the at least one buffer stage and the negative input end of the operation amplifier stage; and feedback signals provided by the first feedback unit, the second feedback unit and the third feedback unit being superposed at the negative input end of the operation amplifier stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhaozheng Hou
  • Patent number: 8433266
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus for a radio frequency power amplifier (RFPA) is provided, where the output end of a voltage controlled voltage source (VCVS) and the output ends of N current controlled current sources (CCCSs) are coupled in parallel to supply power to the RFPA. The apparatus further includes an nth sampling unit, configured to sample the sum of the output currents of the first (n?1) CCCSs and the VCVS to obtain an nth sampling signal; and an nth filtering unit, configured to filter the nth sampling signal according to a predefined nth passband and output the filtered nth sampling signal to an nth CCCS, thus controlling the output current of the nth CCCS. The nth passband is lower than an (n?1)th passband. The switching frequency of the nth CCCS is higher than the switching frequency of an (n?1)th CCCS. N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and n is a positive integer smaller than or equal to N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi Tang, Zhaozheng Hou
  • Publication number: 20120299654
    Abstract: A power amplifier for amplifying a signal includes: an operation amplifier stage, at least one buffer stage and an output stage which are consecutively connected with each other; a first feedback unit connected between an output end of the output stage and a negative input end of the operation amplifier stage; a second feedback unit connected between an input end of the output stage and the negative input end of the operation amplifier stage; a third feedback unit connected between an input end of the at least one buffer stage and the negative input end of the operation amplifier stage; and feedback signals provided by the first feedback unit, the second feedback unit and the third feedback unit being superposed at the negative input end of the operation amplifier stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventor: Zhaozheng HOU
  • Patent number: 8253487
    Abstract: A tracking power supply, a method for controlling a power supply, and a communication apparatus are disclosed. The tracking power supply includes: a basic voltage output unit, configured to provide a basic voltage; and a compensation voltage output unit, configured to provide a compensation voltage. The compensation voltage output unit and the basic voltage output unit are connected in series so as to provide a voltage which is the sum of the basic voltage and the compensation voltage for a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhaozheng Hou, Xujun Liu
  • Publication number: 20120147629
    Abstract: A soft switching apparatus comprises an energy recovery channel formed by two diodes in series connection and a resonant tank formed by an inductor and a capacitor. The soft switching apparatus is coupled to the primary side of a bridge converter. An energy transfer process during L-C resonance helps to reduce the amplitude of the current flowing through the inductor in a freewheeling period. Furthermore, the soft switching apparatus can help to reduce the voltage stress across the secondary switching devices as well as the shoot-through currents flowing through the secondary switching devices, and thus enabling the reduction or elimination of dead time in a secondary synchronous rectifier control scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hengchun Mao, Dianbo Fu, Zhaozheng Hou, Xujun Liu, Bing Cai
  • Publication number: 20110193629
    Abstract: A tracking power supply, a method for controlling a power supply, and a communication apparatus are disclosed. The tracking power supply includes: a basic voltage output unit, configured to provide a basic voltage; and a compensation voltage output unit, configured to provide a compensation voltage. The compensation voltage output unit and the basic voltage output unit are connected in series so as to provide a voltage which is the sum of the basic voltage and the compensation voltage for a load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Zhaozheng Hou, Xujun LIU
  • Publication number: 20110191606
    Abstract: A fast tracking power supply device, a fast tracking power supply control method, and communication equipment are provided. The fast tracking power supply device includes: a basic voltage output unit, configured to output a basic voltage; a basic current unit, configured to output a basic current; a linear amplifier, configured to output a compensation current and a compensation voltage, the linear amplifier is connected in parallel with the basic current output unit, and then is connected in series with the basic voltage output unit. The device can output signal with high efficiency and bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Zhaozheng HOU, Xujun Liu