Dc-dc converter

• US 20070041222A1
• Filed: 11/19/2004
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Eguchi, Hiroyuki, Shimizu, Motohiro
• Application Number:
  US10/579,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20070041222A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/17
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/10 Arrangements incorporating converting means for enabling loads to be operated at will from different kinds of power supplies, e.g. from ac or dc
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33592 having a synchronous rectifier circuit or a synchronous freewheeling circuit at the secondary side of an isolation transformer
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/5387 in a bridge configuration
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/10 Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes

Abstract

To provide a DC-DC converter capable of suppressing switching loss with a simple structure, and capable of enhancing converting efficiency.

An LC resonant circuit 3 is inserted on a secondary side of a transformer 1. If switching means 2 is turned ON or OFF by driving means 4, output can be obtained on the secondary side through the transformer 1. A resonant current frequency detecting means comprises a current detecting current transformer 5 and a frequency detecting unit 6. The resonant current frequency detecting means detects resonant current frequency caused by operation of the LC resonant circuit 3. This frequency is fed back to the driving means. As a result, the driving means 4 turns the switching means 2 ON or OFF at a frequency corresponding to the resonant frequency of the LC resonant circuit 3.

Claims

1. A DC-DC converter comprising:

a transformer having primary side terminals, secondary side terminals, a primary side winding, and a secondary side winding and determining a voltage converting ratio;

switching means interposed between said primary side terminals and said primary side winding;

an LC resonant circuit having a resonating reactor connected in series with said switching means, and a resonating capacitor that resonates with said resonating reactor; and

driving means for turning said switching means ON/OFF, wherein;

resonant frequency detecting means for detecting a frequency of a resonant current caused by an operation of said LC resonant circuit and means for feeding the frequency detected by said resonant frequency detecting means back to said driving means are provided; and

said driving means turns said switching means ON/OFF at a resonant frequency of said LC resonant circuit based on the frequency detected by said resonant frequency detecting means.

2. The DC-DC converter according to claim 1, wherein said resonant frequency detecting means is provided on the primary side of said transformer.

3. A bi-directional DC-DC converter comprising:

a transformer having low-voltage side terminals, high-voltage side terminals, a low-voltage side winding, and a high-voltage side winding and determining a voltage converting ratio;

low-voltage side switching means interposed between said low-voltage side terminals and said low-voltage side winding;

high-voltage side switching means interposed between said high-voltage side terminals and said high-voltage side winding;

a low-voltage side rectifying element connected in parallel with each of switching elements in said low-voltage side switching means;

a high-voltage side rectifying element connected in parallel with each of switching elements in said high-voltage side switching means; and

driving means for turning the switching elements ON/OFF in said low-voltage side switching means and the switching elements in said high-voltage side switching means, wherein;

an LC resonant circuit is interposed between said high-voltage side winding and said high-voltage side switching means or between said low-voltage side winding and said low-voltage side switching means;

resonant frequency detecting means for detecting a frequency of a resonant current caused by an operation of said LC resonant circuit and means for feeding the frequency detected by said resonant frequency detecting means back to said driving means are provided; and

said driving means turns said switching means ON/OFF at a resonant frequency of said LC resonant circuit based on the frequency detected by said resonant frequency detecting means.

4. The DC-DC converter according to claim 3, wherein said LC resonant circuit is interposed between said high-voltage side winding and said high-voltage switching means.

5. The DC-DC converter according to claim 3, wherein said low-voltage side switching means and said high-voltage switching means are each configured by interconnecting four switching elements in a bridge.