Gate control circuit for MOS switch

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9035691-B2
Application number	US-201314044772-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 2, 2013
Priority date	Oct 2, 2013
Publication date	May 19, 2015
Grant date	May 19, 2015

Abstract

A gate drive circuit is disclosed that charges the gate of a switching transistor to a voltage that is high enough to turn the switching transistor fully on and then prevent the charge from flowing back into the gate drive circuit. The gate drive circuit works with a ground rectifier switch by providing a fully differential connection of the switching transistor and its capacitor and resistor in parallel with the antenna.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A circuit comprising:
a switching transistor having a gate, drain and source;
a coil coupled between the source and drain of the switching transistor;
a ground rectifier coupled in parallel with the coil; and
a diode coupled between the gate of the switching transistor and a supply voltage.

2. The circuit of claim 1 ,
where the ground rectifier includes a switch configured to couple opposite ends of the coil to ground.

3. The circuit of claim 1 , further comprising:
a trim capacitor or resistor coupled to the drain of the switching transistor.

4. The circuit of claim 1 , where the circuit is included in a key fob.

5. The circuit of claim 1 , further comprising:
one or more capacitors coupled between the gate and a voltage source.

6. The circuit of claim 1 , further comprising:
a tuning capacitor coupled in parallel to the coil.

7. The circuit of claim 5 , where the voltage source is a fully rectified alternating current (AC) voltage waveform.

8. The circuit of claim 1 , where the supply voltage is a battery.

Assignees

• Atmel Corp

Inventors

• Roeper Wolfgang

Classifications

• H03K17/302 Primary

  in field-effect transistor switches · CPC title

• H03K17/687

  the devices being field-effect transistors · CPC title

• H03K17/162

  without feedback from the output circuit to the control circuit · CPC title

• H03K2217/0054

  Gating switches, e.g. pass gates · CPC title

• H03K17/063 Primary

  in field-effect transistor switches · CPC title