摘要:
A voltage stabilizer with a very low voltage drop includes a series voltage regulator circuit having a first PNP transistor connected to an input terminal of the stabilizer via a second PNP transistor and being connected to ground via a capacitor. The stabilizer has biasing and switching circuits disposed between the input terminal thereof, a base terminal of the second transistor and ground.
摘要:
A voltage stabilizer with a minimal voltage drop designed to withstand high voltage transients includes a "series" type voltage regulator circuit with an NPN power transistor. The collector terminal of this transistor is connected to ground via a capacitor and to the cathode of a diode whose anode forms an input terminal of the stabilizer. The base terminal of the power transistor is connected to the collector terminals of first and second PNP transistors which have their emitter terminals respectively connected to the cathode and anode of the diode and their base terminals connected to a circuit biasing circuit.
摘要:
Described is an antisaturation circuit for an integrated PNP transistor characterized by a comparator circuit comprising two transistors and a current generator whose output current corresponds to a pre-established function, e.g., an exponential function, of the emitter current of said transistor. The changing of state of the comparator circuit, as determined by said pre-established function of said current generator, is determined by the drop of the V.sub.CE voltage of the transistor below a preset minimum value, with a portion of the conduction current of one of the two transistors of the comparator circuit utilized for increasing the forced .beta. of the transistor. This limits the degree of its saturation, as well as the leakage current toward the substrate.
摘要:
A loop-type voltage regulating device, particularly for regulating a voltage of an automotive electric system that includes at least one thermal engine, a voltage regulator and an alternator operative to deliver a system regulated-voltage signal to and receive a regulation signal from the voltage regulator, the voltage regulating device including a control unit within the regulating loop, which unit is connected between the thermal engine and the voltage regulator and is adapted to supply the latter with a signal related to the engine operation.
摘要:
A protection circuit of a diagnostic output line (K-line) of a control unit for protection of the control unit in the event of a ground disconnection or of a “below ground” condition is provided. The diagnostic output line includes a first interface DMOS transistor with a source connected to ground and a drain coupled to the diagnostic output line through a second DMOS transistor with a source connected to the output line and a drain connected to the source of the first DMOS transistor. The protection circuit also includes a comparator for the voltage of the diagnostic output line with the potential of the ground node, and a two-input logic gate, whose output controls a current generator forcing a current, limited by a resistor, on the diagnostic output line.
摘要:
A low-drop voltage regulator includes a P-type power transistor having an input terminal connected to a supply source, an output terminal connected to a load, and a control terminal driven by the output of an operational amplifier having its non-inverting input connected to a reference voltage source and its inverting input connected to the output terminal of the power transistor. To improve the regulation characteristics of the regulator without jeopardizing stability, even under normally critical conditions, provision is made for a feedback network including a capacitive component between the output and inverting input of the operational amplifier.
摘要:
An H-bridge circuit which includes four power transistors (an npn pull-down and a pnp pull-up for each of the output terminals). Two control circuits are connected to drive these transistors in a complementary crossover configuration, so that each control circuit can turn on the pull-up transistor on one side of the load and the pull-down transistor on the opposite side of the load. Each of the power transistors is paralleled (base-to-base) by a smaller transistor which provides a scaled current output (proportional to that of the corresponding power transistor) to the opposite control circuit. The control circuit includes static current-thresholding disable logic, which prevents turn-on until the currents through the opposite power devices have declined to threshold levels. Thus, as long as either control circuit is driving one of the pull-up transistors into in the on-state, the other control circuit will not be able to turn on the pull-down transistor which is in series with the active pull-up transistor. This efficiently prevents any condition of unlimited crowbar current, without adding any excess delay or causing any high-impedance condition at the output.
摘要:
A circuit for recirculating the discharge current of an inductive load driven from the high side of the supply at two different recirculation voltages which may be selected for implementing a slow or a fast recirculation of the current advantageously employs a single power element represented by an NPN transistor functionally connected in parallel to the load. During a driving phase of the load a slow recirculation of the discharge current is implemented by delivering to the base of the recirculation NPN transistor a current sufficient to keep it saturated. upon switching off the load, when a fast recirculation of the dischage current through the recirculation NPN transistor is desired, delivery of the saturating current to the base of the recirculation transistor is interrupted and the transistor remains conducting having a diode and a zener diode in opposition thereto connected in series between ground and the base of the recirculation NPN transistor for permitting the recirculation at a voltage substantially equal to the sum of the voltage drop through the first diode, the zener voltage and the base-emitter voltage of the recirculation NPN transistor.
摘要:
A first circuit branch subjected to an input voltage and including a first resistance and a second circuit branch subjected to a reference voltage and including a second resistance are connected to a coupling circuit, which is responsive to the current circulating in the first branch to cause a current of the same value to circulate in the second branch. An output voltage taken at a point between said coupling circuit and said second resistance constitutes the modified signal.
摘要:
In an integrated pressure sensor with a high full-scale value, a monolithic body of semiconductor material has a first and a second main surface, opposite and separated by a substantially uniform distance. The monolithic body has a bulk region, having a sensitive portion next to the first main surface, upon which pressure acts. A first piezoresistive detection element is integrated in the sensitive portion and has a variable resistance as a function of the pressure. The bulk region is a solid and compact region and has a thickness substantially equal to the distance.