PIEZO HAPTIC DRIVER AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME

• US 20150372218A1
• Filed: 06/11/2015
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Gyu Won
• Application Number:
  US14/736,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20150372218A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/206 comprising thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 30/802 Circuitry or processes for operating piezoelectric or electrostrictive devices not otherwise provided for, e.g. drive circuits

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a piezo haptic driver capable of preventing a malfunction and being more effectively operated and a method for driving the same. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a piezo haptic driver includes: an analog signal processor driving a piezo element; a controller transferring a control signal controlling the piezo element to the analog signal processor; an interface controller determining a driving of the analog signal processor in response to at least one of an under voltage lock out (UVLO) signal and a thermal shutdown (TSD) signal.

Claims

1. A piezo haptic driver, comprising:

an analog signal processor driving a piezo element;

a controller transferring a control signal controlling the piezo element to the analog signal processor;

an interface controller determining a driving of the analog signal processor in response to at least one of an under voltage lock out (UVLO) signal and a thermal shutdown (TSD) signal.

2. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 1, wherein the analog signal processor includes an amplifier which amplifies a driving signal of the piezo element.

3. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 2, wherein the interface controller is connected to a boost converter which outputs a driving voltage driving the amplifier.

4. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 1, wherein when the UVLO signal or TSD signal does not maintain a preset time, the interface controller drives the analog signal processor and when the UVLO signal or the TSD signal maintains a preset time, the interface controller stops an operation of the analog signal processor.

5. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 4, wherein when the UVLO signal or the TSD signal maintains the preset time, the interface controller stops a driving of an amplifier and a boost converter.

6. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 4, wherein the analog signal processor includes at least one of an UVLO circuit and a TSD circuit.

7. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 6, wherein the analog signal processor further includes a DAC which converts the control signal into an analog signal.

8. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 7, wherein the interface controller performs a control to make a driving timing of at least one of the TSD circuit, the UVLO circuit, the DAC, an amplifier, and a boost converter different.

9. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 8, wherein the interface controller starts to drive the TSD circuit and the DAC at a first driving timing, starts to initially drive the amplifier and drive the UVLO circuit at a second driving timing, and starts to normally drive the amplifier at a third driving timing.

10. The piezo haptic driver according to claim 8, wherein the interface controller performs a control to make a driving ending timing of the TSD circuit, the UVLO circuit, the DAC, and the amplifier identical.

11. A method for driving a piezo element using an analog signal processor at least including an amplifier which outputs a control signal controlling the piezo element and a boost converter which transfers a driving voltage of the amplifier, the method comprising:

transmitting, by an interface controller, an enable signal so that the amplifier and the boost converter are turned on at different time;

sensing at least one of an UVLO signal and a TSD signal and determining the UVLO signal and the TSD signal to be valid when at least one of the UVLO signal and the TSD signal is maintained for a predetermined time or more; and

simultaneously stopping an operation of the amplifier and the boost converter if it is determined that at least one of the UVLO signal and the TSD signal is valid.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein in the transmitting, by the interface controller, the enable signal so that the amplifier and the boost converter are turned on at different time, the boost converter is turned on and then the amplifier is turned on.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the analog signal processor further includes a DAC, a low pass filter, and a buffer, the interface controller outputs the enable signal to simultaneously turn on the DAC, the low pass filter, and the buffer and then outputs the enable signal to turn on the boost converter.

14. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

when the UVLO signal and the TSD signal are not generated for a predetermined time, again driving the analog signal processor.