Switching element driving circuit

• US 10,483,967 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2017
• Issued: 11/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Takakura, Yuji, Nakamura, Yasushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Sibin
• Application Number:
  US16/310,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20190326904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/08 Circuits specially adapted for the generation of control voltages for semiconductor devices incorporated in static converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33507 with automatic control of the output voltage or current, e.g. flyback converters H02M3/33561, H02M3/33569 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53871 with automatic control of output voltage or current
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/06 using dc to ac converters or inverters H02P27/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/04123 in field-effect transistor switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/16 Modifications for eliminating interference voltages or currents
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/56 by the use, as active elements, of semiconductor devices using diodes H03K17/74
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/687 the devices being field-effect transistors

Abstract

A switching element driving circuit that includes a push-pull buffer circuit driving a switching element to be driven, the push-pull buffer circuit amplifying electrical power of a switching control signal and transmitting the amplified switching control signal to a control terminal of the switching element to be driven; a compensation resistor that connects the input to the output; and an input-side pull-down resistor that connects the input to a negative polarity side of the switching element to be driven.

Claims

1. A switching element driving circuit comprising

a push-pull buffer circuit driving a switching element to be driven, the push-pull buffer circuit amplifying electrical power of a switching control signal and transmitting the amplified switching control signal to a control terminal of the switching element to be driven, wherein:

in the push-pull buffer circuit, switching elements of different polarities are connected in series, as buffer elements, between a first potential and a second potential lower in potential than the first potential;

a connecting point between control terminals of an upper-stage buffer on a side of the first potential and a lower-stage buffer on a side of the second potential serves as an input;

a connecting point between input and output terminals of the upper-stage buffer and the lower-stage buffer serves as an output;

an upper-stage current limiting resistor is provided between the first potential and the upper-stage buffer;

a lower-stage current limiting resistor is provided between the second potential and the lower-stage buffer;

the switching control signal is inputted to the input; and

the output is connected to the control terminal of the switching element to be driven,

a compensation resistor that connects the input to the output; and

an input-side pull-down resistor that connects the input to a negative polarity side of the switching element to be driven,

wherein a sum of a resistance value of the compensation resistor and a resistance value of the input-side pull-down resistor is set to be smaller than a resistance value between the control terminal of the switching element to be driven and an emitter terminal or a source terminal of the switching element, and to be larger than a resistance value of the lower-stage current limiting resistor.

2. The switching element driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the second potential is connected to an output terminal of a negative power supply lower in potential than the negative polarity side of the switching element to be driven,

the negative power supply is a transformer circuit including a primary coil and a secondary coil,

an output-side circuit of the negative power supply includes the secondary coil;

a rectifier diode connected in a forward direction, the forward direction being a direction going from the output terminal to a first end of the secondary coil; and

a capacitor connected between a second end of the secondary coil and the output terminal, the second end being different from the first end, and

the second end is connected to the negative polarity side of the switching element to be driven.

3. The switching element driving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the resistance value of the input-side pull-down resistor is set to be 100 or more times larger than the resistance value of the lower-stage current limiting resistor.