| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D520947 |
Power converter body |
May 16, 2006 |
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| D510906 |
Power converter |
October 25, 2005 |
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| D506438 |
Power converter body |
June 21, 2005 |
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| D505114 |
Ball grid array |
May 17, 2005 |
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| 7423892 |
Adaptively configured and autoranging voltage transformation module arrays |
September 9, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for adaptively configuring an array of voltage transformation modules is disclosed. The aggregate voltage transformation ratio of the adaptive array is adjusted to digitally regulate the output voltage for a wide range of input voltages. An integrated adaptive arra |
| 7420825 |
Adaptively configured voltage transformation module array |
September 2, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for adaptively configuring an array of voltage transformation modules is disclosed. The aggregate voltage transformation ratio of the adaptive array is adjusted to digitally regulate the output voltage for a wide range of input voltages. An integrated adaptive arra |
| 7408795 |
Energy storage and hold-up method and apparatus for high density power conversion |
August 5, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for adaptively configuring an array of voltage transformation modules is disclosed. The aggregate voltage transformation ratio of the adaptive array is adjusted to digitally regulate the output voltage for a wide range of input voltages. An integrated adaptive arra |
| 7361844 |
Power converter package and thermal management |
April 22, 2008 |
| Power conversion apparatus includes a circuit board with power conversion circuitry and a package having an upper portion and a lower portion that respectively enclose circuitry on a top surface and a bottom surface of the circuit board. The lower portion encloses a smaller region than t |
| 7353587 |
Forming distributed gap magnetic cores |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method of manufacturing a magnetic core includes providing a substrate with magnetically permeable material that has a first region and a second region near the first region, providing support to maintain a juxtaposition between the first region and the second region, forming a sli |
| 7236086 |
Power converter configuration, control, and construction |
June 26, 2007 |
| A transformer having galvanically isolated windings defines a primary side and a secondary side of a power conversion apparatus. A switch couples power from a source on the primary side via the transformer to a load on the secondary side. A first circuit assembly has primary-side circuit |
| 7233469 |
Components having actively controlled circuit elements |
June 19, 2007 |
| Protection and filtering functions are provided for external circuits by internal circuits that use controlled elements. |
| 7212419 |
Adaptively configured and autoranging voltage transformation module arrays |
May 1, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for adaptively configuring an array of voltage transformation modules is disclosed. The aggregate voltage transformation ratio of the adaptive array is adjusted to digitally regulate the output voltage for a wide range of input voltages. An integrated adaptive arra |
| 7202646 |
Control interface with droop compensation |
April 10, 2007 |
| A droop compensation system includes a controlled current source that provides a scaled model of the PRM output current or VTM input current on an interface connection. A controlled resistance modeling the VTM effective series input resistance is connected across the interface termin |
| 7187263 |
Printed circuit transformer |
March 6, 2007 |
| A circuit board has apertures. Separate magnetic flux paths each form a closed loop that passes through at least one of the apertures and surrounds an interior space. The flux paths comprising portions that lie within magnetically permeable core pieces. At least two of the flux paths |
| 7170764 |
Adaptively configured voltage transformation module array |
January 30, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for adaptively configuring an array of voltage transformation modules is disclosed. The aggregate voltage transformation ratio of the adaptive array is adjusted to digitally regulate the output voltage for a wide range of input voltages. An integrated adaptive arra |
| 7154250 |
Buck-boost DC--DC switching power conversion |
December 26, 2006 |
| Apparatus operates at a power level within a range of power levels that includes a rated maximum power level of the apparatus. The apparatus includes circuit elements to deliver power at an output voltage to a load from a source at an input voltage using an inductor selectively connected |
| 7145786 |
Point of load sine amplitude converters and methods |
December 5, 2006 |
| In a preferred embodiment, a Sine Amplitude Converter ("SAC") method and apparatus for VTMs converts a DC input voltage to a DC output voltage using a fixed transformation ratio at a frequency locked to a resonance. The SAC uses a resonant circuit including a transformer and complementar |
| 7038917 |
Low loss, high density array interconnection |
May 2, 2006 |
| An interconnect architecture in which a substrate such as a printed circuit board includes multiple conductive layers separated by one or more interposed insulating layers, the conductive layers being adapted to receive a high density array of interconnect elements such as a ball grid |
| 7015561 |
Active rectifier |
March 21, 2006 |
| A switching circuit has an active switch, a controller, and at least two terminals. The at least two terminals include two current control terminals for connection at two locations in another circuit. The controller is configured to turn the active switch off to block current between |
| 6985341 |
Components having actively controlled circuit elements |
January 10, 2006 |
| Circuitry provides various protection mechanisms to an external circuit using actively controlled elements. The controlled elements may by controlled to provide overcurrent, overvoltage, or undervoltage protection to an external circuit. |
| 6984965 |
Factorized power architecture with point of load sine amplitude converters |
January 10, 2006 |
| A Factorized Power Architecture ("FPA") method and apparatus includes a front end power regulator ("PRM) which provides one or more controlled DC bus voltages which are distributed through the system and converted to the desired load voltages using one or more DC voltage transformation |
| 6975098 |
Factorized power architecture with point of load sine amplitude converters |
December 13, 2005 |
| A Factorized Power Architecture ("FPA") method and apparatus for supplying power to highly transient loads such as microprocessors includes a front end power regulator ("PRM) which provides a controlled DC bus voltage which is converted to the desired load voltage using a DC voltage |
| 6969909 |
Flip chip FET device |
November 29, 2005 |
| In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a semiconductor device includes conductive pad areas, and each conductive pad area is electrically connected to a plurality of metal traces which are in turn each connected to diffusions. A conductive contact element such as a solde |
| 6940022 |
Protective coating for an electronic device |
September 6, 2005 |
| An electronic device includes a surface and a conductive termination on the surface. A protective conformal coating on the surface of the electronic device includes a window formed in the protective coating to expose a portion of the conductive termination. The exposed portion of the |
| 6940013 |
Surface mounting a power converter |
September 6, 2005 |
| A power converter includes electrical contacts arranged on a first surface and a connection device. The converter has a top surface above the first surface and a bottom surface below the first surface. A border of the bottom surface is inset from a border of the second surface. The c |
| 6934166 |
Output resistance modulation in power converters |
August 23, 2005 |
| Modulation control circuitry modulates the equivalent output resistance of a power converter, for example a Sine Amplitude Converter, by varying the ON resistance of the primary switches in the converter. The modulation control circuitry may be used to "soft-start" the converter, perform |
| 6930893 |
Factorized power architecture with point of load sine amplitude converters |
August 16, 2005 |
| A Factorized Power Architecture ("FPA") includes a power regulator providing controlled DC bus voltages distributed and converted to load voltages, at the load, using DC voltage transformation modules ("VTMs") having fixed transformation ratios. Optional feedback from the load improv |
| 6911848 |
Low-loss transformer-coupled gate driver |
June 28, 2005 |
| Low-loss, common-source gate-control topologies may be used to efficiently drive a multiplicity of switches at frequencies greater than 1 MHz and over a range of duty cycles, including 50%. The control switches can be controlled at high speed using simple, directly-coupled drive circuitr |
| 6847853 |
Fabrication rules based automated design and manufacturing system and method |
January 25, 2005 |
| An automated custom power supply design system uses an expert system containing a set of rules, including manufacturing limitations to limit design choices and ensure feasibility and manufacturability of the design. A design interface collects specifications from a user. A complement of |
| 6788033 |
Buck-boost DC-DC switching power conversion |
September 7, 2004 |
| Apparatus operates at a power level within a range of power levels that includes a rated maximum power level of the apparatus. The apparatus includes circuit elements to deliver power at an output voltage to a load from a source at an input voltage using an inductor selectively connected |
