SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY

• US 20090027925A1
• Filed: 07/16/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: KITAMURA, Makoto, MOCHIZUKI, Takeshi, SAKURAMORI, Fusao, KANOUDA, Akihiko
• Application Number:
  US12/174,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20090027925A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/21.130
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/007 Plural converter units in cascade push-pull DC/DC converters with pre-regulator H02M3/3374; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC stage including a high frequency transformer H02M7/4807; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC conversion stage generating periodically varying voltages H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0085 Partially controlled bridges
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/4233 using a bridge converter comprising active switches
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/1582 Buck-boost converters H02M3/1584 takes precedence
• 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

A buck-boost converter of an H bridge type having a function for initially charging a smoothing output capacitor without a relay and a rush current preventing resistance. A compact and flat power supply is attained by employing a current critical mode H bridge system for a PFC converter and providing a function of initially charging a smoothing output capacitor to a converter circuit.

Claims

1. A buck-boost switching power supply including an H bridge converter at an input stage having a high side switch and a low side switch connected in series via a choke coil,

wherein the high side switch is turned ON and the low side switch is turned ON and OFF when an absolute value of an instantaneous value of an input voltage is lower than an output voltage, and the high side switch and the low side switch are simultaneously turned ON or OFF to put the current of the choke coil in a critical mode when the absolute value of the instantaneous value of the input voltage is higher than the output voltage, thus controlling power factor correction.

2. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein an initial charge mode is provided when an output voltage of a smoothing output capacitor is lower than a predetermined voltage, and the high side switch and the low side switch are simultaneously switched with a time width inversely proportional to the instantaneous value of the input voltage in the initial charge mode for current critical mode operation.

3. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 1 comprising an integrated circuit,

the integrated circuit including:

a control circuit having the initial charge mode and a mode for correction of a power factor of an input power;

a level shift circuit for transmitting a drive signal of the high side switch to a high voltage side; and

drive circuits for the high and low side switches.

4. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 3, wherein the integrated circuit has a terminal for receiving a power boot/shutdown signal externally of the switching power supply.

5. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 2, wherein the H bridge converters are provided as at least two channels, and the respective H bridge converters are interleaved in the initial charge mode and in the power factor correction control mode.

7. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein a unit has a full height not smaller than 6 mm and smaller than 10 mm, the unit is mounted on a rear side of a liquid crystal panel of a television set or on a rear side of an image monitor device, and the panel when the unit is set thereon has a thickness not smaller than 20 mm and not larger than 35 mm.

8. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 2, comprising an integrated circuit,

the integrated circuit including:

a control circuit having the initial charge mode and a mode for correction of a power factor of an input power;

a level shift circuit for transmitting a drive signal of the high side switch to a high voltage side; and

drive circuits for the high and low side switches.

9. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 3, wherein the H bridge converters are provided as at least two channels, and the respective H bridge converters are interleaved in the initial charge mode and in the power factor correction control mode.

10. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 4, wherein the H bridge converters are provided as at least two channels, and the respective H bridge converters are interleaved in the initial charge mode and in the power factor correction control mode.

6. A buck-boost switching power supply wherein a semiconductor switching element and a choke coil used for control of power factor correction cause a current peak value of the smoothing output capacitor in the initial charge mode to be controllably made constant.

11. The buck-boost switching power supply according to claim 6, wherein a unit has a full height not smaller than 6 mm and smaller than 10 mm, the unit is mounted on a rear side of a liquid crystal panel of a television set or on a rear side of an image monitor device, and the panel when the unit is set thereon has a thickness not smaller than 20 mm and not larger than 35 mm.