US 11,877,106 B2
Monitoring circuit for photovoltaic module
Timothy Patrick Pauletti, Dallas, TX (US); and Suheng Chen, Plano, TX (US)
Assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/733,619.
Application 17/733,619 is a division of application No. 16/819,562, filed on Mar. 16, 2020, granted, now 11,350,186.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/821,054, filed on Mar. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0256259 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01K 1/024 (2021.01); H04Q 9/00 (2006.01); H02S 50/00 (2014.01); G01K 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04Q 9/00 (2013.01) [G01K 1/024 (2013.01); G01K 7/00 (2013.01); H02S 50/00 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/10 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/82 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitoring circuit for a photovoltaic (PV) module, comprising:
a measurement conditioning circuit having a voltage sense terminal, a voltage reference terminal, and a digital measurement data output;
a microcontroller circuit, having a digital measurement data input coupled with the digital measurement data output and having a modulation clock input, an input communication data stream input, a measurement data stream output, and a transmit select output; and
a transmitter circuit having a measurement data stream input coupled with the measurement data stream output, having a modulation clock output coupled with the modulation clock input, having a transmit select input coupled with the transmit select output, and having positive and negative output communication terminals.