Terminating resistance generation device for differential input mode communication and differential input mode communication device

• US 8,933,723 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2013
• Issued: 01/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Energy Solution Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Chem Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Hyunchul, Heo, Jin Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Hammond, Crystal L
• Application Number:
  US14/361,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20140312927A1
• Time in Patent Office: 446 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 326/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4086 Bus impedance matching, e.g. termination
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 19/0005 Modifications of input or output impedance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0272 Arrangements for coupling to multiple lines, e.g. for differential transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0278 Arrangements for impedance matching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0298 Arrangement for terminating transmission lines

Abstract

Disclosed are a terminating resistance generation device for differential input mode communication and a differential input mode communication device. The terminating resistance generation device for differential input mode communication according to the present invention includes: a first circuit unit including a first ground terminal and operating only when the first ground terminal is connected to a ground; a second circuit unit including a second ground terminal and operating only when the second ground terminal is connected to the ground; and a terminating resistance generating unit generating terminating resistance when one of the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal is not connected, and as a result, only one of the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit operates.

Claims

1. An apparatus for generating terminating resistance for differential input mode communication, comprising:

a first circuit unit including a first ground terminal and operating only when the first ground terminal is connected to a ground;

a second circuit unit including a second ground terminal and operating only when the second ground terminal is connected to the ground; and

a terminating resistance generating unit generating terminating resistance when one of the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal is not connected, and as a result, only one of the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit operates.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first circuit unit includes one or more transistors that are turned on to operate only when the first ground terminal is connected to the ground.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second circuit unit includes one or more transistors that are turned on to operate only when the second ground terminal is connected to the ground.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the terminating resistance generating unit includes a plurality of resistances and a switching element among the plurality of resistances.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the terminating resistance generating unit does not generate the terminating resistance because the switching element is turned off, and as a result, the plurality of resistances are not connected when both the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit operate.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the terminating resistance generating unit generates the terminating resistance because the switching element is turned on, and as a result, the plurality of resistances are connected to each other when only one of the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit operates.

7. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the switching element is an N-channel depletion type MOSFET.

8. A differential input mode communication apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of communication boards performing differential input mode communication,

wherein the communication board includes a terminating resistance generating apparatus that generates terminating resistance depending on whether the communication board is positioned at a termination, and

the terminating resistance generating apparatus includes;

a first circuit unit including a first ground terminal and operating only when the first ground terminal is connected to a ground;

a second circuit unit including a second ground terminal and operating only when the second ground terminal is connected to the ground; and

a terminating resistance generating unit generating terminating resistance when one of the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal is not connected, and as a result, only one of the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit operates.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the terminating resistance is generated at a communication board positioned at the termination among the plurality of communication boards, since one of the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal is not connected, and the terminating resistance is not generated at a communication board not positioned at the termination among the plurality of communication boards, since both the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal are connected.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first circuit unit includes one or more transistors that are turned on to operate only when the first ground terminal is connected to the ground.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the second circuit unit includes one or more transistors that are turned on to operate only when the second ground terminal is connected to the ground.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the terminating resistance generating unit includes a plurality of resistances and a switching element among the plurality of resistances.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the terminating resistance generating unit does not generate the terminating resistance because the switching element is turned off, and as a result, the plurality of resistances are not connected when both the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit operate.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the terminating resistance generating unit generates the terminating resistance because the switching element is turned on, and as a result, the plurality of resistances are connected to each other when only one of the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit operates.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the switching element is an N-channel depletion type MOSFET.

16. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the differential input mode communication is one of controller area network (CAN) communication, recommended standard (RS)-485 communication, and recommended standard (RS)-422 communication.