Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High voltage isolation by capacitive coupling
- Patent Title (中): 通过电容耦合进行高压隔离
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Application No.: US12235888Application Date: 2008-09-23
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Publication No.: US07675444B1Publication Date: 2010-03-09
- Inventor: Benjamin Alan Smith , Ken Tang , Victor Levi , Jeff Owens
- Applicant: Benjamin Alan Smith , Ken Tang , Victor Levi , Jeff Owens
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: North Weber & Baugh LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00

Abstract:
The present invention comprises a circuit for transferring N inputs, wherein N is greater than or equal to 2, across a capacitive coupling media comprising a line circuit, a coupling capacitor, and a neutral potential circuit. The line circuit comprises: (1) a data converter for each input, for sampling and converting the N inputs; (2) a multiplexer for combining the outputs of the N data converters and a synchronization signal to generate an unencoded composite bit stream; (3) a data encoder for encoding the composite bit stream. The capacitor couples the encoded composite bit stream to a data decoder. The neutral potential circuit comprises: (1) the data decoder for decoding the coupled composite bit stream, and generating a recovered data stream and a recovered clock; (2) a synchronization recovery, control logic, and de-multiplex function for providing a set of digital outputs that correspond to the inputs to the data converters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100073211A1 HIGH VOLTAGE ISOLATION BY CAPACITIVE COUPLING Public/Granted day:2010-03-25
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