FLYBACK SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY

• US 20190348920A1
• Filed: 05/08/2019
• Published: 11/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Joulwatt Technology (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: WONG, Pitleong, ZHOU, Xunwei
• Granted Patent: US 10,644,604 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0032 Control circuits allowing low power mode operation, e.g. in standby mode
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33523 with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop
• 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: 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 flyback switching power supply, comprising a main power switch, a transformer and a rectifier is described. The transformer comprises a primary winding and a secondary winding, the main power switch is connected with the primary winding, the rectifier is connected with the secondary winding. When the output voltage of the flyback switching power supply is lower than a first threshold value, the rectifier is controlled to be turned on for a transient period; by detecting the negative current flowing through the main power switch, performing integral operation on the voltage across the auxiliary winding, and sampling the peak voltage of the drain-to-source voltage of the main power switch for several times, whether the rectifier is turned on can be determined if the output voltage at the secondary side is lower than the threshold voltage, and the main power switch is controlled to be turned on accordingly.

Claims

1. A flyback switching power supply, comprising a main power switch, a transformer and a rectifier, wherein the transformer comprises a primary winding and a secondary winding, the main power switch is connected with the primary winding, the rectifier is connected with the secondary winding, a control terminal of the main power switch is connected with a primary-side controller, a control terminal of the rectifier is connected with a secondary-side controller;

wherein when an output voltage of the flyback switching power supply is lower than a first threshold value, the rectifier is controlled to be turned on for a transient period by the secondary-side controller;

wherein the primary-side controller is configured to detect a negative current flowing through the main power switch for determining whether the rectifier is turned on or not, to determine that the output voltage at secondary side is lower than a threshold voltage when the negative current reaches a second threshold value and to control the main power switch to be turned on when the negative current reaches the second threshold value.

2. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein the primary-side controller comprises a first current limitation module configured to detect a current flowing through the main power switch, and to limit the current flowing through the main power switch when the current flowing through the main power switch reaches a first current limiting value.

3. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein the secondary-side controller comprises a second current limitation module configured to detect a current flowing through the rectifier, and to limit the current flowing through the rectifier when the current flowing through the rectifier reaches a second current limiting value.

4. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein, when a current flowing through the secondary winding drops to zero, after a first latency period, the negative current flowing through the main power switch starts to be detected.

5. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein after the current flowing through the secondary winding drops to zero, when the output voltage lower than the first threshold value is detected and a second latency period reaches after the rectifier is turned off, the rectifier is controlled to be turned on for the transient period if the main power switch is not turned on.

6. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 1, further comprises an auxiliary winding coupled with the transformer, wherein the auxiliary winding is connected with a voltage detecting module configured to detect a voltage across the auxiliary winding, the main power switch is controlled to be turned on when the negative current flowing through the main power switch reaches the second threshold value.

7. A flyback switching power supply, comprising a main power switch, a transformer and a rectifier, wherein the transformer comprises a primary winding and a secondary winding, the main power switch is connected with the primary winding, the rectifier is connected with the secondary winding, a control terminal of the main power switch is connected with a primary-side controller, a control terminal of the rectifier is connected with a secondary-side controller;

wherein when an output voltage of the flyback switching power supply is lower than a first threshold value, the rectifier is controlled to be turned on for a transient period by the secondary-side controller;

wherein the flyback switching power supply further comprises an auxiliary winding coupled with the transformer, the auxiliary winding is connected with a voltage detecting module configured to detect a voltage across the auxiliary winding, to sample the voltage across the auxiliary winding for obtaining a first voltage signal, and to perform a volt-second integral operation to obtain a result, when the result of the volt-second integral operation reaches a third threshold value, it is determined that the output voltage of the flyback switching power supply is lower than the first threshold value and the main power switch is controlled to be turned on when the voltage across the auxiliary winding is less than a low threshold value.

8. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 7, wherein performing the volt-second integral operation is to convert the first voltage signal to a corresponding current signal, and to charge a capacitor by the corresponding current signal when the first voltage signal is higher than a threshold value equal to or close to 0, wherein a voltage between two terminals of the capacitor represents the result of the volt-second integral operation.

9. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 7, wherein, when the current flowing through the secondary winding drops to zero, after a first latency period, the result of the volt-second integral operation is compared with a third threshold value.

10. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 7, wherein a plurality of the results are obtained by performing the volt-second integral operation for several times, if the result obtained by the volt-second integral operation performed last time is lower than a fourth threshold value and the result obtained by the volt-second integral operation performed at current time reaches the third threshold value, the output voltage of the flyback switching power supply is determined to be lower than the first threshold value, wherein the fourth threshold value is less than the third threshold value.

11. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 7, further comprises an integrating control circuit, the integrating control circuit comprises a voltage-to-current converter and an integrating capacitor, the voltage-to-current convertor is configured to receive the first voltage signal and convert the first voltage signal to a corresponding current signal, the integrating capacitor is charged directly by the corresponding current signal or by a mirror current generated from the corresponding current signal by a mirror module, the volt-second integral operation starts when the first voltage signal is greater than a threshold value equal to or close to zero, and the integrating capacitor is cleared or reset when the first voltage signal is less than a threshold value equal to or close to zero.

12. A flyback switching power supply, comprising a main power switch, a transformer and a rectifier, wherein the transformer comprises a primary winding and a secondary winding, the main power switch is connected with the primary winding, the rectifier is connected with the secondary winding, a control terminal of the main power switch is connected with a primary-side controller, a control terminal of the rectifier is connected with a secondary-side controller;

wherein the flyback switching power supply further comprises an auxiliary winding coupled with the transformer, the auxiliary winding is connected with the primary-side controller;

when the output voltage of the flyback switching power supply is lower than a first threshold value, the rectifier is controlled to be turned on for a transient period by the secondary-side controller;

a voltage at a common node connected between the main power switch and the primary winding, a drain-to-source voltage of the main power switch or a voltage across the auxiliary winding is sampled to obtain a peak voltage, it is determined that the output voltage is lower than the first threshold value when a difference between the peak voltage sampled last time and the peak voltage sampled at current time reaches a difference threshold value, and the main power switch is controlled to be turned on by the primary-side controller when the voltage across the auxiliary winding is lower than a low threshold value.

13. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 12, wherein, when a current flowing through the secondary winding drops to zero, after a first latency period, the difference between the peak voltage sampled last time and the peak voltage sampled at current time is compared with the difference threshold value.

14. The flyback switching power supply according to claim 12, wherein, during a process for obtaining the peak voltage by sampling the voltage at the common node connected between the main power switch and the primary winding, the drain-to-source voltage of the main power switch or the voltage across the auxiliary winding, if the peak voltage is not able to be detected after oscillation is attenuated, a latest ripple peak value during oscillation is regarded as the peak voltage sampled last time, an increased voltage caused by the transiently turn-on rectifier is detected as the peak voltage sampled at current time by peak sampling operation.

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