Power supply device

• US 6,292,377 B1
• Filed: 06/20/2000
• Issued: 09/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Rajnikant B.
• Application Number:
  US09/595,897
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• Field of Search: 363/25, 363/26, 363/21, 363/71, 363/127, 363/131, 363/133, 363/134, 363/72, 363/97
• US Class Current: 363/25
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/285 Single converters with a plurality of output stages connected in parallel parallel operation of a plurality of converters in dc distribution networks H02J1/10

Abstract

The switching converters of a power supply device are adapted to equally share the power output of the device. The power supply device 1 comprises a plurality of resonance type switching converters 4, 5 connected in parallel relative to a load, frequency control circuits 6, 7 for controlling respectively the switching frequencies of the switching converters 4, 5, a feedback circuit 8 for feeding back the voltage applied to the load and a resonance current balance circuit 9 for detecting the wave heights of the resonance currents flowing respectively through the switching converters 4, 5 and comparing them. The frequency control circuits 6, 7 control the switching frequencies so as to make the voltage applied to the load show a predetermined voltage value and also make the wave heights of the resonance currents equal to each other.

Claims

1. A power supply device comprising:

a plurality of resonance type switching converters connected in parallel, each having;

a transformer;

a switching circuit for switching the electric flowing through the primary winding of said transformer;

a resonance circuit for regulating the electric current flowing through the primary winding of said transformer to show a substantially sinusoidal waveform; and

a rectifying/smoothing circuit for rectifying/smoothing the output voltage obtained at the secondary winding of said transformer;

the outputs of said rectifying/smoothing circuits of said plurality of resonance type switching converters being connected to a single load;

a voltage detection means for detecting the voltage applied to said load;

a comparison means for detecting the electric current flowing through the primary winding of the transformer of each of said plurality of resonance type switching converters and comparing the detected electric currents of the primary windings of the transformers; and

a plurality of switching control means for controlling the respective switching frequencies of the switching circuits of said plurality of resonance type switching converters on the basis of the voltage applied to the load as detected by said voltage detection means and the outcome of said comparison of said comparison means;

said switching control means being adapted to control the respective switching frequencies of said switching circuits so as to make the voltage applied to the load as detected by said voltage detection means have a predetermined value and also control the switching frequencies of said switching circuits so as to make the electric currents flowing through the primary windings of said transformers have a same wave height.

2. A power supply device according to claim 1, wherein

each of said resonance type switching converters has a current transformer to be used as said resonance circuit in order to use the inductance of said primary winding to make the electric current flowing through said primary winding of said transformer show a substantially sinusoidal waveform and

said comparison means rectifies and smooths the voltage obtained from the secondary winding of each of said current transformer and compares the electric currents flowing through all the primary windings of said transformers arranged in said resonance type switching converters.

3. A power supply device according to claim 1, wherein

said comparison means detects the resonance current flowing through the primary winding of each of said transformers, converts the detected resonance current into a voltage and compares the electric currents flowing through all the primary windings of said transformers.

4. A power supply device according to claim 1, wherein

each of said resonance type switching converters has a current detection transformer arranged inside said transformer to detect the electric current flowing through the primary winding of said transformer and

said comparison means rectifies and smooths the voltage obtained from each of said current detection transformers and compares the electric currents flowing through all the primary windings of said transformers arranged in said resonance type switching converters.