CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CURRENT
First Claim
1. A method for determining a system current in a circuit that includes a converter circuit, comprising:
- converting a charging current into a reflection voltage;
converting an auxiliary current into a summer input voltage; and
adding the reflection voltage to the summer input voltage to generate a charger input voltage that is representative of the system current.
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Abstract
A power supply circuit having a converter circuit and method for determining a current flowing into the converter circuit. A converter circuit includes an amplifier and a current-to-current converter module. The amplifier has a current sensing element coupled between its inverting and noninverting input terminals. The amplifier generates a sensing signal from a charging current flowing through the current sensing element. The sensing signal is input into the current-to-current converter module, which scales the charging current and modulates the scaled charging current. The current-to-current converter module converts the modulated current to a charging voltage that is representative of the charging current. The charging current is converted to a current that is representative of the input current to converter circuit. The input current to the converter circuit is added to an auxiliary load current to yield the current of the power supply circuit.
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1. A method for determining a system current in a circuit that includes a converter circuit, comprising:
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converting a charging current into a reflection voltage; converting an auxiliary current into a summer input voltage; and adding the reflection voltage to the summer input voltage to generate a charger input voltage that is representative of the system current. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for determining an input current of a circuit, comprising:
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using a charging current to generate a first current sense voltage; using the first current sense voltage to generate a charging voltage; using the charging voltage to scale a drive current; and converting the scaled drive current to a reflection voltage. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A power supply circuit, comprising:
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a system path coupled to a first node for receiving a first portion of a current, the system path comprising a first impedance having first and second terminals; and a battery charging path coupled to the first node for receiving a second portion of the current, the battery charging path comprising a second impedance having first and second terminals and wherein the first impedance is absent from the battery charging path. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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