Resonant Switching Power Supply Device

• US 20080024094A1
• Filed: 04/20/2005
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Komatsu, Akeyuki, Nishihara, Hideki
• Granted Patent: US 7,446,512 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 323/233
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0032 Control circuits allowing low power mode operation, e.g. in standby mode
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0058 by employing soft switching techniques, i.e. commutation of transistors when applied voltage is zero or when current flow is zero using an auxiliary actively switched resonant commutation circuit connected to an intermediate DC voltage or between two push-pull branches of an inverter bridge H02M7/4811; in resonant inverters H02M7/4815; in inverters operating from a resonant DC source H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/3376 with automatic control of output voltage or current
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/4818 with means for adaptation of resonance frequency, e.g. by modification of capacitance or inductance of resonance circuits
• 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

For the purpose of providing a resonant switching power supply device having a wide output voltage variable range by changing its switching frequency, the resonance circuit thereof comprises a switching transformer, a first resonance section connected in series with the switching transformer, and a second resonance section connected in parallel with the switching transformer, wherein the resonance frequency characteristic in the case that the DC load current is large is formed using the series-connected devices of the first resonance section, and the resonance frequency characteristic in the case that the DC load current is small is formed using the first resonance section, the second resonance capacitor of the second resonance section and the switching transformer.

Claims

1. A resonant switching power supply device comprising:

a power supply circuit for outputting a DC power,

a switching circuit having multiple switching elements, to which the DC power of said power supply circuit is input, for carrying out switching operations complementarily,

a resonance circuit, to which the output of said switching circuit is input, having series-connected devices comprising a first resonance capacitor and a resonance coil, a switching transformer, and a second resonance capacitor connected in parallel with the primary winding of said switching transformer,

a rectifying/smoothing circuit to which the secondary output of said switching transformer is input and in which the input is rectified and smoothed and then output,

a current detection circuit comprising a detection transformer having a primary winding in which a current substantially identical to the current flowing in the primary winding of said switching transformer flows, a rectifying circuit for rectifying the secondary output of said detection transformer, and a current-voltage conversion circuit for converting the output of said rectifying circuit into a voltage, and

a control circuit, to which the outputs of said power supply circuit, said rectifying/smoothing circuit and said current detection circuit are input, for controlling the switching operations of said switching elements in said switching circuit.

2. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 1, further comprising a first load device connected to the output side of said rectifying/smoothing circuit, wherein the load value of said first load device is adjusted depending on the output of said resonant switching power supply device using said control circuit.

3. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 1, further comprising a regulated power supply, the positive electrode of which is connected to the negative side of said rectifying/smoothing circuit, and a second load device connected between the negative electrode of said regulated power supply and the positive side of the output of said rectifying/smoothing circuit, wherein the load value of said second load device is adjusted depending on the output of said resonant switching power supply device using said control circuit.

4. A resonant switching power supply device for controlling its switching frequency depending on the output supplied to a load and outputting a DC output, comprising:

a switching circuit for switching multiple switching elements at the switching frequency,

a resonance circuit, to which the output of said switching circuit is input, having a switching transformer, a first resonance section connected in series with said switching transformer, and a second resonance section connected in parallel with said switching transformer,

a rectifying/smoothing circuit for rectifying and smoothing the output of said switching transformer,

a voltage detection circuit for detecting the DC output voltage from said rectifying/smoothing circuit,

a current detection circuit for detecting a load current using the current flowing in the primary winding of said switching transformer, and

a control circuit for controlling the switching frequency of said switching circuit depending on the outputs of said voltage detection circuit and said current detection circuit.

5. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 4, wherein said control circuit is configured to control the switching frequency depending on the change in the voltage input to said switching circuit.

6. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 4, wherein

said first resonance section comprises series-connected devices comprising a first resonance capacitor and a resonance coil, connected to the output of said switching circuit, and said second resonance section comprises a second resonance capacitor connected in parallel with the primary winding of said switching transformer, and

the resonance frequency characteristic in the case that the DC load current is large is formed using said series-connected devices of said first resonance section, and the resonance frequency characteristic in the case that the DC load current is small is formed using said first resonance section, said second resonance capacitor of said second resonance section and said switching transformer.

7. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 4, wherein said resonance circuit comprises a switching transformer, a first resonance section connected in series with the primary winding of said switching transformer, and a second resonance section connected in parallel with the primary winding of said switching transformer.

8. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 4, wherein said resonance circuit comprises a switching transformer, a first resonance section connected in series with the primary winding of said switching transformer, and a second resonance section connected in parallel with the secondary winding of said switching transformer.

9. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 6, wherein a first load device is provided across the DC output terminals from which the output is supplied to a load, and said first load device has a dummy load value corresponding to the range of 0.1 to 0.2% of the maximum output supply power.

10. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 7, wherein a second load device is provided across the DC output terminals from which the output is supplied to a load, a regulated power supply for supplying a negative voltage is connected in series with said second load device, and the dummy load value of said second load device is adjusted using said control circuit.

11. The resonant switching power supply device according to claim 6, wherein the ratio between the maximum resonance frequency and the minimum resonance frequency in the usage range of the resonance frequency of said resonance circuit is in the range of 1.2 to 2.5.