Electricity: measuring and testing – Impedance – admittance or other quantities representative of... – Lumped type parameters
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-30
2008-10-14
Nguyen, Ha (Department: 2829)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Impedance, admittance or other quantities representative of...
Lumped type parameters
C324S762010
Reexamination Certificate
active
07436200
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is an apparatus for testing a power supply. A power supply testing apparatus may include a remote load which may sink an adjustable amount of current with an adjustable slew rate and may test the response of the power supply to determine its operability with a dynamic load. Additionally, in an alternative embodiment of the invention, the testing apparatus may source an adjustable amount of current with an adjustable slew rate to the output of a power supply. In yet another embodiment of the invention, the testing apparatus may include an adjustable current sink and adjustable current source with an adjustable slew rate. The power supply testing apparatus of the present invention may be implemented with standard circuit components on a circuit board and thus provide a small form factor. Additionally, due to the small form factor and low weight implementation, the power supply testing apparatus may utilize reduced length test wires which reduce the inductance in the test wires and increases the apparatus' slew rate for more effective testing.
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Holland Thomas
Jacobsen Bill
Zansky Zoltan
Kusumakar Karen M
Network Appliance Inc.
Nguyen Ha
Suiter Swantz pc llo
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