SWITCHING CONTROL CIRCUIT

• US 20100090541A1
• Filed: 09/17/2009
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanken Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sanken Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: KIMURA, Kengo
• Granted Patent: US 7,999,602 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/115
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/0822 in field-effect transistor switches

Abstract

It is possible to reliably prevent two switching elements comprising a half-bridge circuit from turning ON simultaneously even when two pulse signals allowing both the two switching elements to turn ON are input thereto.

A first drive signal is allowed to be output from a first output terminal 4 to a P-type MOSFET 10 based on a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal, and a second drive signal is allowed to be output from a second output terminal 5 to an N-type MOSFET 11 that operates as a second switching element based on the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal, and a protecting circuit 20 is configured to allow at least one of the P-type MOSFET 10 and the N-type MOSFET 11 to turn OFF.

Claims

1. A switching control circuit for driving a first switching element and a second switching element composing a half-bridge circuit comprising:

a first output terminal that outputs a first drive signal to the first switching element based on a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal;

a second output terminal that outputs a second drive signal to the second switching element based on a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal; and

a protecting circuit that outputs the first drive signal and the second drive signal that turn OFF at least one of the first switching element and the second switching element upon inputting the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal.

2. The switching control circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the protecting circuit has a logic circuit configured to allow the first drive signal and the second drive signal that turn OFF the first switching element and the second switching element respectively to be output, when the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal are signals that turn ON the first switching element and the second switching element, respectively.

3. The switching control circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the protecting circuit has a logic circuit configured to allow the first drive signal and the second drive signal that turn OFF the first switching element and the second switching element respectively to be output, when the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal are signals that turn OFF the first switching element and the second switching element, respectively.

4. The switching control circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the first drive signal has a predetermined “

both-OFF”

period, which is set in the circuit, immediately before turning-ON of the first switching elements, and

the second drive signal has a predetermined “

both-OFF”

period, which is set in the circuit, immediately before turning-ON of the second switching elements.