Transformer for a flyback type converter

• US 4,887,061 A
• Filed: 12/30/1988
• Issued: 12/12/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Original Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Inventors: Matsumura, Tomoya
• Primary Examiner(s): Kozma, Thomas J.
• Application Number:
  US07/292,007
• Time in Patent Office: 347 Days
• Field of Search: 336/165, 336/178, 336/198, 336/208, 336/212, 336/233
• US Class Current: 336/178
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 2038/426 with gap in transformer core
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/42 Flyback transformers

Abstract

A pulse transformer for a flyback converter type switching power source has a ferrite core (10,11) with a pair of side legs (10a, 11a) and a center leg (10b, 11b) which is shorter than said side leg so that an air gap G is provided in the magnetic path along the center leg, and the windings on a bobbin (15) on said ferrite core is improved by positioning said gap G at the end portion of the center leg close to the end of the bobbin, and a dielectric belt (16b) on the bobbin (15) so that no winding exists around said gap. Thus, leakage flux around said gap does not interlink with the windings, and no eddy current flows in the windings, and a partial temperature raise in the windings is prevented.

Claims

1. A transformer for a flyback converter type switching power source comprising;

a ferrite core (10,11) having a pair of side legs (10a, 11a) and a center leg (10b, 11b) which is shorter than said side legs, so that a gap G is provided on the center leg, and arms (10c, 11c) connecting said side legs with said center leg,

a bobbin (15) having a cylindrical hollow center body (15a) and a pair of flanges (15b), having windings on said hollow center body, assembled with said ferrite core so that said center leg is inserted into the hollow center body of the bobbin,

said gap G being located at end of said center leg (10a) under one of the extreme ends of said hollow center body of the bobbin (15), and

no coil means (16a, 16b) being provided for allowing no winding in predetermined axial and radial lengths from said gap.

2. A transformer according to claim 1, wherein said no coil means is a belt provided at the end of said hollow center body of said bobbin.

3. A transformer according to claim 1, wherein said ferrite core is a combination of a pair of E-shaped cores.

4. A transformer according to claim 1, wherein said ferrite core is combination of an E-shaped core and an I-shaped core.

5. A transformer according to claim 2, wherein a primary winding is provided on non-belt portion of the hollow center body, and a secondary winding is provided on the whole length of the hollow center body through an insulation layer on the primary winding.