Inductive load driving apparatus

Details Inductive load driving apparatus Inductive load driving apparatus

1997-12-03

1999-08-10

Cunningham, Terry D.

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Signal converting, shaping, or generating

Current driver

327309, H03B 100

Patent

active

059364408

ABSTRACT:
An inductive load driving apparatus for controlling current supplied from a battery to an inductor such as a generator field coil is composed of a first N-channel MOSFET switching element connected between a high-side terminal of the inductor and a high-side terminal of the battery, a second N-channel MOSFET switching element connected in parallel with the inductive load and a protection circuit having a back-flow current detecting element turning off the second N-channel MOSFET switching element when the inductor does not generate back-flow current. The second N-channel MOSFET switching element is turned on when the first N-channel MOSFET switching element is turned off and turned off when the first switching element is turned on. The first and second N-channel MOSFET switching elements are disposed integrally with each other on a semiconductor chip.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4831322 (1989-05-01), Mashino et al.
patent: 5075568 (1991-12-01), Bilotti et al.
patent: 5541806 (1996-07-01), Hoffman

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