Inventor
BOSCOLO MICHELE
IT19 patents
Patents
19 patentsUS5969491AOct 19, 1999
Detection of instantaneous position of the rotor of a brushless DC motor driven in a tripolar mode
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL72 citations95
US7164250B2Jan 16, 2007
Open-loop voltage driving of a DC motor
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL55 citations94
US6804131B2Oct 12, 2004
PWM/linear driver for an electromagnetic load
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL26 citations92
US6420847B1Jul 16, 2002
Device for detection of current or voltage on a PWM driven winding with reduced jitter and related methods
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL37 citations92
US6249101B1Jun 19, 2001
Start-up procedure for brushless DC motors having position sensors with angular resolution lower than the resolution of the driving system
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL25 citations92
US6137253AOct 24, 2000
Method of PWM driving a brushless motor with digitally stored voltage profiles with reduced losses
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL44 citations92
US6949906B2Sep 27, 2005
Driving circuit and method for preventing voltage surges on supply lines while driving a DC motor
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL17 citations84
US6841903B2Jan 11, 2005
Method for detecting the position of a rotor of a DC motor and related circuit
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL13 citations84
US6919763B2Jul 19, 2005
Transconductance amplifier for inductive loads and method for driving inductive loads
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL7 citations74
US7215094B2May 8, 2007
Method for sensing the back electromotive force induced in the winding of a voice coil motor
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL7 citations73
US6208160B1Mar 27, 2001
Detection of a perturbation in the synchronization of the driving in a tripolar mode of a brushless, sensorless DC motor for minimizing torque ripple
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL8 citations73
US6057663AMay 2, 2000
Current control in driving DC-brushless motor with independent windings
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL9 citations73
US6150963ANov 21, 2000
Method and system for compensating for variations in supply voltage applied to pulse width modulation conversion circuits
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL8 citations68
US6798156B2Sep 28, 2004
Method for minimising the phase errors during the driving of an electric motor, and a circuit using the method thereof
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL5 citations62
USRE42113EFeb 8, 2011
Control system of motors for rotating a disk and for positioning heads of a mass storage disk device
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL2 citations61
US7332886B2Feb 19, 2008
Control system of motors for rotating a disk and for positioning heads of a mass storage disk device
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL4 citations61
US7078871B2Jul 18, 2006
Method for determining the effective resistance of a DC motor and open loop voltage mode controlling of a DC motor
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL2 citations61
US7050257B2May 23, 2006
Method for estimating the resistance of a DC motor for positioning read/write heads of a hard disk
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL4 citations59
US7265592B2Sep 4, 2007
Digital switching apparatus for driving a load
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL0 citations41