US 7,388,760 B2 | ||
Switching power supply circuit | ||
Masayuki Yasumura, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
Assigned to Sony Corporation, (Japan) | ||
Filed on Jan. 03, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/324,608. | ||
Claims priority of application No. P2005-001521 (JP), filed on Jan. 06, 2005. | ||
Prior Publication US 2006/0164870 A1, Jul. 27, 2006 | ||
Int. Cl. H02M 3/335 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 363—17 [363/132] | 8 Claims |
1. A switching power supply circuit, comprising:
a switching unit formed of two switching elements at least connected to each other, said switching unit receiving a direct-current
(DC) input voltage and performs a switching operation, the switching operation resulting in a switching output;
a switching drive unit that drives the switching elements alternately turning on and off to perform the switching operation
with the same cycle;
an isolation converter transformer having a core with a primary winding on a primary side and a secondary winding on a secondary
side, the primary winding being supplied with the switching output of the switching operation, and the secondary winding having
an alternating voltage induced therein by the primary winding;
a primary-side series resonant circuit including a leakage inductance component of the primary winding and a capacitance of
a primary-side series resonant capacitor connected in series with the primary winding, said primary-side series resonant circuit
connected to a connecting node of said two switching elements, said primary-side series resonant circuit for producing a first
resonant frequency for making the switching unit operate on a current resonant basis;
a secondary-side series resonant circuit including a leakage inductance component of the secondary winding and a capacitance
of a secondary-side series resonant capacitor connected in series with the secondary winding for producing a second resonant
frequency;
a secondary-side rectifying and smoothing unit that rectifies the alternating voltage induced in the secondary winding to
produce a rectified voltage, and that smoothes the rectified voltage using a secondary-side smoothing capacitor to thereby
produce a secondary-side DC output voltage; and
a constant-voltage control unit that performs constant-voltage control of the secondary-side DC output voltage by controlling
the switching drive unit according to a level of the secondary-side DC output voltage to thereby vary a switching frequency
of the switching unit;
the primary-side series resonant circuit and the secondary-side series resonant circuit forming an electro-magnetically coupled
resonant circuit, wherein
the core of the isolation converter transformer has a gap formed in a predetermined position between the primary side and
the secondary side, the gap having a length selected so that the electro-magnetically coupled resonant circuit has a unimodal
output characteristic with respect to the input of a frequency signal having the switching frequency; and
the first resonant frequency and the second resonant frequency are set so that a required phase shift arises between a primary-side
series resonant current flowing through the primary-side series resonant circuit and a secondary-side rectified current flowing
through the secondary side of the isolation converter transformer.
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