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Ezio Galbiati
Also filed as: GALBIATI EZIO
53 granted patents·525 citations·filing 1996–2024
98Inventor score
Files withST MICROELECTRONICS SRL43GALBIATI EZIO5BONVIN FREDERIC1MAIOCCHI GIUSEPPE1SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS1
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53 records- 0191US7705548B2Enhancement of the efficiency of energy recovery during spindle motor step-up phases for parking the R/W head of a disk storage device upon external supply failureST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 27, 2010·12 cites·23 claims
- 0288US8415908B2Driving apparatus for electric motor and related methodGALBIATI EZIO·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 9, 2013·8 cites·24 claims
- 0388US6542324B1Digital control of the speed of a motor by a power stage driven in discontinuous modeST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 1, 2003·45 cites·43 claims
- 0486US6420847B1Device for detection of current or voltage on a PWM driven winding with reduced jitter and related methodsST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 16, 2002·37 cites·33 claims
- 0585US5731670AMethod for driving a brushless DC electric motorSGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 24, 1998·54 cites·22 claims
- 0683US9947350B1Method of detecting back electromotive force in electro-mechanical actuators, corresponding device and apparatusST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 17, 2018·6 cites·15 claims
- 0783US6788490B2Circuit for estimating the speed of an electromagnetic actuatorST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 7, 2004·18 cites·29 claims
- 0881US8659250B2Management apparatus of a rotating motor and an annexed load during power lossMAIOCCHI GIUSEPPE·Filed 2011·Granted Feb 25, 2014·8 cites·25 claims
- 0981US6137253AMethod of PWM driving a brushless motor with digitally stored voltage profiles with reduced lossesST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 24, 2000·44 cites·20 claims
- 1080US7542262B2Apparatus for driving an electromagnetic loadST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 2, 2009·4 cites·16 claims
- 1177US12355385B2Method of operating a hard disk drive, corresponding controller, hard disk drive and processing deviceST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 8, 2025·0 cites·23 claims
- 1277US8873193B2Circuitry for controlling a voice coil motorST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 28, 2014·3 cites·28 claims
- 1376US10749455B2Method for current control and corresponding system and apparatusST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 18, 2020·4 cites·30 claims
- 1474US12080327B2Method of operating hard disk drives and corresponding control circuitST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2023·Granted Sep 3, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 1574US8471505B2Device to synchronize the change of the driving mode of an electromagnetic loadGALBIATI EZIO·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 25, 2013·4 cites·29 claims
- 1674US6804131B2PWM/linear driver for an electromagnetic loadST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 12, 2004·26 cites·12 claims
- 1773US11652479B2Method of controlling a half-bridge circuitST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2022·Granted May 16, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 1871US6094022ALow jitter zero crossing BEMF detector and motor incorporating the sameST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 25, 2000·30 cites·20 claims
- 1970US7215094B2Method for sensing the back electromotive force induced in the winding of a voice coil motorST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2006·Granted May 8, 2007·7 cites·9 claims
- 2070US6949906B2Driving circuit and method for preventing voltage surges on supply lines while driving a DC motorST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 27, 2005·17 cites·28 claims
- 2169US11855554B2Method of driving an electrical load and corresponding driver circuitST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 26, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 2268US8614859B2Stopping method for a spindle motor and related deviceGALBIATI EZIO·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 24, 2013·2 cites·18 claims
- 2367US8754602B2Motor controller with drive-signal conditioningBONVIN FREDERIC·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 17, 2014·4 cites·22 claims
- 2466US11336280B2Half-bridge control circuit, related integrated circuit and half-bridge circuitST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2021·Granted May 17, 2022·0 cites·21 claims
- 2566US8829837B2Driving apparatus for an electromagnetic load and related methodGALBIATI EZIO·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 9, 2014·2 cites·32 claims
- 2665US7106546B2System for controlling the speed of a voice coil motor (VCM) in order to provide a low noise ramp loading of a hard disk headST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 12, 2006·5 cites·30 claims
- 2765US6549044B2Driving circuit for a voice coil motor and driving method thereofST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 15, 2003·13 cites·10 claims
- 2864US6841903B2Method for detecting the position of a rotor of a DC motor and related circuitST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 11, 2005·13 cites·25 claims
- 2963US12387756B2Method of operating a voice coil motor and corresponding control circuitST MICROELECTRONICS INT NV·Filed 2024·Granted Aug 12, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3063US8054023B2Method and related circuit for driving a sensorless brushless motorST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 8, 2011·6 cites·23 claims
- 3162US12119024B2Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding control circuit, hard disk drive and processing deviceST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2023·Granted Oct 15, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 3262US11888431B2Methods and systems of sensing back-electromotive force in electric motorsST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 30, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 3362US6680598B2Circuit for the speed recovery of a direct current motor and method using said circuitST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 20, 2004·12 cites·26 claims
- 3461US9431934B2Motor controller with drive-signal conditioningST MICROELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 30, 2016·0 cites·20 claims
- 3560US6385067B2Analog/digital PWM control circuit of a windingST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2001·Granted May 7, 2002·19 cites·16 claims
- 3660US6310912B1System for increasing the definition in converting a digital datum in a PWM signal for driving a full-bridge output stageST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 30, 2001·21 cites·9 claims
- 3757US12190909B2Method of operating an electric motor, corresponding device and hard disk driveST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2023·Granted Jan 7, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3854US8207695B2Control circuit of a full-bridge stageGALBIATI EZIO·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 26, 2012·3 cites·12 claims
- 3954US7184288B2System for controlling the dissipated power supply of a power stage working in a mixed Linear/PWM mode and driving an electromagnetic loadST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 27, 2007·3 cites·8 claims
- 4054US6919763B2Transconductance amplifier for inductive loads and method for driving inductive loadsST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 19, 2005·7 cites·17 claims
- 4154US6061258AMonitoring of current in an inductive load, PWM driven through a bridge stageST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 1998·Granted May 9, 2000·22 cites·24 claims
- 4254US5917720AMethod and circuit for driving a bridge by a PWM procedureST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 29, 1999·21 cites·23 claims
- 4353US12033663B2Current sensing circuit and hard disk drive including sameST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 9, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 4451US7834568B2Method and device for driving a brushless motor with voltage waveform predisposed for a progressive and automatic switching from a three-phase sinusoidal driving to a square wave three-phase drivingST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 16, 2010·3 cites·20 claims
- 4547US9257920B2Method and related driver of a permanent magnet synchronous electric motorST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2014·Granted Feb 9, 2016·0 cites·22 claims
- 4647US6249099B1Silent phase commutation in a three-phase brushless DC motorST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 19, 2001·13 cites·19 claims
- 4746US8044619B2Prevention of concurrent PWM or PSM commutations of power signals driving a voice coil motor (VCM) to reduce S/N ratio degradation of low level signal lines of a R/W headST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 25, 2011·1 cites·12 claims
- 4844US10892740B2Digital filtering method, corresponding circuit and deviceST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 12, 2021·0 cites·22 claims
- 4944US9294030B2Method of PWM regulation of a continuous current electric motorST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 22, 2016·0 cites·32 claims
- 5042US7545612B2Apparatus for powering electric motorsST MICROELECTRONICS SRL·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 9, 2009·0 cites·19 claims
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