Switching power supply

• US 5,661,642 A
• Filed: 11/29/1995
• Issued: 08/26/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Shimashita, Ishio
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Peter S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Riley, Shawn
• Application Number:
  US08/564,746
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 363/49, 363/21, 363/41, 323/901
• US Class Current: 363/21.15
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/36 Means for starting or stopping converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33523 with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop

Abstract

A switching power supply supplying power from an alternating-current power supply to a load includes a transformer having primary, secondary, and tertiary windings and a switching element, connected to the primary winding of the transformer, providing power from the alternating-current power supply to the primary winding. A control circuit controls the switching element to turn on and off. A supplementary power-supply circuit, connected to the tertiary winding of the transformer, provides output power to operate the control circuit. A start-up circuit is connected between one of output terminals of the alternating-current power supply and the supplementary power-supply circuit, and provides a current to the supplementary power-supply circuit to increase the output power of the supplementary power-supply circuit. In the switching power supply, when the output power of the supplementary power-supply circuit reaches a given value, the switching element is controlled to turn on and off, and power is generated in the secondary winding of the transformer and is provided to the load to be connected to the secondary winding.

Claims

1. A switching power supply supplying power from an alternating-current power supply to a load, said switching power supply comprising:

a diode bridge circuit having input terminals connected to output terminals of said alternating current supply and having output terminals;

a transformer having primary, secondary, and tertiary windings;

a switching element, connected to said primary winding of the transformer, providing power from said alternating-current power supply to the primary winding;

a control circuit controlling said switching element to turn on and off;

a supplementary power-supply circuit, connected to said tertiary winding of the transformer, providing output power to operate said control circuit;

a start-up circuit, connected between one of the input terminals of said diode bridge circuit and said supplementary power-supply circuit to increase said output power of the supplementary power-supply circuit; and

a reverse current blocking diode connected in series between said start-up circuit and the input terminal of said diode bridge circuit;

wherein current from the supplementary power-supply circuit is positively prevented from flowing back to the start-up circuit by the blocking diode, thereby providing current to the start-up circuit directly from the alternating-current power supply, and rapidly resetting said control circuit when said alternating-current power supply is turned off.

2. The switching power supply as claimed in claim 1, wherein said switching power supply further comprises a resistor connected to an output terminal of said control circuit.

3. A switching power supply supplying power from an alternating-current power supply to a load, said switching power supply comprising:

a transformer having primary, secondary, and tertiary windings;

a switching element, connected to said primary winding of the transformer, providing power from said alternating-current power supply to the primary winding;

a control circuit controlling said switching element to turn on and off;

a supplementary power-supply circuit, connected to said tertiary winding of the transformer, providing output power to operate said control circuit; and

a start-up circuit, connected between one of the output terminals of said alternating-current power supply and said supplementary power-supply circuit, providing a current to said supplementary power-supply circuit to increase said output power of the supplementary power-supply circuit;

wherein when said output power of the supplementary power-supply circuit reaches a given value, the switching element is controlled to turn on and off, and power is generated in said secondary winding of the transformer and is provided to said load to be connected to the secondary winding

wherein said supplementary power-supply circuit comprises;

a first capacitor coupled to said control circuit;

a first rectifying circuit, connected to one of the terminals of said tertiary winding of the transformer, having a second capacitor, a resistor, and a first diode coupled to said first capacitor; and

a second rectifying circuit having a second diode which is operative to charge said second capacitor in an opposite direction when polarization of the transformer is reversed.

4. The switching power supply as claimed in claim 3, wherein said switching power supply further comprises a resistor connected to an output terminal of said control circuit.