Self-oscillation type DC-DC converter having a driving transistor connected in parallel to a circuit element for starting a switching element

• US 5,689,178 A
• Filed: 07/16/1996
• Issued: 11/18/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TOKO Incorporated (Murata Manufacturing Co Limited)
• Original Assignee: TOKO Incorporated (Murata Manufacturing Co Limited)
• Inventors: Otake, Tetsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Peter S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vu, Bao Q.
• Application Number:
  US08/680,772
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 323/282, 323/284, 323/289
• US Class Current: 323/282
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/1563 without using an external clock H02M3/158 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention provides a self-oscillation type DC-DC converter that can perform self-oscillating operation without disposing a feedback winding in a choke coil and realizes the high efficiency, small size and low cost by using a MOSFET as a switching element. The self-oscillation type DC-DC converter comprises a switching transistor Q12 being a P-MOSFET; a first PNP type driving transistor Q2, the collector and emitter of which are connected to the gate and source of the switching transistor Q12, respectively and the base of which is connected to the switching transistor Q12 through a feedback circuit 3; and a second NPN type driving transistor Q3, the gate of the switching transistor Q12 being connected to the ground through the collector and emitter of the second driving transistor Q3 and the base of the second driving transistor Q3 being connected to the feedback circuit 3 through a capacitor C4.

Claims

1. In a non-isolated self-oscillation type DC-DC converter for turning on and off an inputted dc voltage by means of a switching element and supplying a stabilized dc output voltage to a load through a smoothing circuit including a diode, a choke coil and a smoothing capacitor connected to a current output terminal of the switching element, the self-oscillation type DC-DC converter comprising:

wherein said switching element is a MOSFET, a control terminal of said switching element being connected to ground through a starting resistor;

a first driving transistor, a current input terminal of which is connected to a current input terminal of said switching element and a current output terminal of which is connected to a control terminal of said switching element;

a feedback circuit, the feedback circuit being connected between said current output terminal of said switching element and a control terminal of said first driving transistor; and

a second driving transistor, a main current path of which is connected in parallel to said starting resistor, and a control terminal of which being connected to said feedback circuit through a capacitor element.

3. The self-oscillation type DC-DC converter according to claim 1 wherein said feedback circuit consists of a series circuit of a resistor and a capacitor.

5. The self-oscillation type DC-DC converter according to claim 1 further comprising a control circuit for detecting the output voltage and outputting a control signal according to said output voltage, an output terminal of said control circuit being connected to said control terminal of said first driving transistor, thereby controlling a base current of said first driving transistor according to said output voltage, causing to change an off-time of said switching element, and keeping said output voltage constant.

7. The self-oscillation type DC-DC converter according to claim 1 further comprising a control circuit for detecting the output voltage and outputting a control signal according to said output voltage, an output terminal of said control circuit being connected to said control terminal of said first driving transistor through said feedback circuit, thereby controlling a base current of said first driving transistor according to said output voltage, causing to change an off-time of said switching element, and keeping said output voltage constant.

2. In a non-isolated self-oscillation type DC-DC converter for turning on and off an inputted dc voltage by means of a switching element and supplying a stabilized dc output voltage to a load through a smoothing circuit including a diode, a choke coil and a smoothing capacitor connected to a current output terminal of the switching element, the self-oscillation type DC-DC converter comprising:

wherein said switching element is a MOSFET, a control terminal of said switching element being connected to ground through a starting diode;

a first driving transistor, a current input terminal of which is connected to a current input terminal of said switching element and a current output terminal of which is connected to a control terminal of said switching element;

a feedback circuit, the feedback circuit being connected between said current output terminal of said switching element and a control terminal of said first driving transistor; and

a second driving transistor, a current input terminal of which being connected in parallel to said starting diode, and a control terminal of which being connected to said feedback circuit through a capacitor.

4. The self-oscillation type DC-DC converter according to claim 2 wherein said feedback circuit consists of a series circuit of a resistor and a capacitor.

6. The self-oscillation type DC-DC converter according to claim 2 further comprising a control circuit for detecting the output voltage and outputting a control signal according to said output voltage, an output terminal of said control circuit being connected to said control terminal of said first driving transistor, thereby controlling a base current of said first driving transistor according to said output voltage, causing to change an off-time of said switching element, and keeping said output voltage constant.

8. The self-oscillation type DC-DC converter according to claim 2 further comprising a control circuit for detecting the output voltage and outputting a control signal according to said output voltage, an output terminal of said control circuit being connected to said control terminal of said first driving transistor through said feedback circuit, thereby controlling a base current of said first driving transistor according to said output voltage, causing to change an off-time of said switching element, and keeping said output voltage constant.