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- Patent Title: Enhanced efficiency energy-scavenging interface, method for operating the energy-scavenging interface, and energy-scavenging system comprising the energy-scavenging interface
- Patent Title (中): 提高效率能量清除界面,操作能量清除界面的方法,以及包括能量清除界面的能量清除系统
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Application No.: US14036751Application Date: 2013-09-25
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Publication No.: US09461504B2Publication Date: 2016-10-04
- Inventor: Stefano Ramorini , Alessandro Gasparini , Alberto Cattani
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Priority: ITTO2012A0847 20120927
- Main IPC: H02J15/00
- IPC: H02J15/00 ; H02M3/158 ; H02N2/18 ; H02M7/217 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
An energy-scavenging interface includes first and second switches connected in series between an input and reference, and third and fourth switches connected in series between the input and an output. A control circuit closes the first and second switches and opens the third switch for a first time interval to store charge in a storage element. A scaled copy of a peak value of the charging current is obtained. The control circuit then opens the first switch and closes the third and fourth switches to generate an output signal as long as the value in current of the output signal is higher than the value of said scaled copy of the peak value.
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