Multi-output switching power source apparatus

• US 6,477,063 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2001
• Issued: 11/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Okura, Hideki, Ishii, Takuya, Nagase, Hisanori, Nakajima, Yasufumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Rajnikant B.
• Application Number:
  US09/947,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20020118551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• Field of Search: 363/21.04, 363/21.14, 363/21.15, 363/21.12, 363/56, 363/97, 363/49, 363/26, 323/222, 323/906
• US Class Current: 363/21.04
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/009 having two or more independently controlled outputs for DC-DC converter with intermediate AC H02M3/33561
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33561 having more than one ouput with independent control
• 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 multi-output switching power source apparatus having a plurality of outputs, wherein electric power regenerated from a load side to one of the outputs can be output as electric power supplied to other loads. The switching power source apparatus comprises a main switching circuit for turning ON/OFF the voltage of a DC power source and for inputting the voltage to the primary winding of a transformer, secondary switching circuits for rectifying AC voltages induced across the output windings, output capacitors for smoothing and outputting the voltages, and a control drive circuit for adjusting the ON/OFF periods of the switching circuits. The outputs are short-circuited during the OFF period of the main switching circuit via the transformer, whereby the fluctuations of the output voltages can be controlled.

Claims

1. A multi-output switching power source apparatus comprising:

a DC power source;

a transformer having a primary winding and a plurality of output windings;

a main switching circuit for converting the voltage of said DC power source into an AC voltage by repeating ON/OFF operation and for inputting the voltage to said primary winding of said transformer;

first to nth (n;

a natural number of 2 or more) secondary switching circuits connected to the first to nth output windings of said plurality of output windings respectively and turning ON/OFF complementarily with said main switching circuit in order to rectify AC voltages induced across said first to nth output windings;

first to nth smoothing circuits for smoothing voltages rectified by said first to nth secondary switching circuits and for supplying first to nth DC output voltages to first to nth loads; and

a control drive circuit for turning ON said first to nth secondary switching circuits after said main switching circuit is turned OFF, for turning ON said main switching circuit after said first to nth secondary switching circuits are turned OFF, for detecting one of said first to nth DC output voltages, and for adjusting the ON period of said main switching circuit and the ON periods of said first to nth secondary switching circuits to stabilize the DC output voltage.

2. A multi-output switching power source apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of loads to which said first to nth DC output voltages are supplied has a load condition in which electric power flows from the load to said multi-output switching power source apparatus, and the electric power flowing from the load is output as electric power supplied to other loads to which the DC output voltages are supplied from said multi-output switching power source apparatus.

3. A multi-output switching power source apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein said control drive circuit comprises:

a control circuit for turning ON said first to nth secondary switching circuits after said main switching circuit is turned OFF, for detecting one of said first to nth DC output voltages, and for adjusting the ON periods of said first to nth secondary switching circuits to stabilize the DC output voltage; and

a drive circuit for turning ON said main switching circuit after said first to nth secondary switching circuits are turned OFF and for turned OFF said main switching circuit after a predetermined time.

4. A multi-output switching power source apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein said control drive circuit comprises:

a control circuit for turning ON said main switching circuit after said first to nth secondary switching circuits are turned OFF, for detecting one of said first to nth DC output voltages, and for adjusting the ON period of said main switching circuit to stabilize the DC output voltage; and

first to nth drive circuits for turning ON said first to nth secondary switching circuits after said main switching circuit is turned OFF and for turned OFF said main switching circuit after a predetermined time.

5. A multi-output switching power source apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein an inverter circuit comprising a series circuit having a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected between positive/negative voltage sources outputting positive/negative voltages, at least two of a plurality of DC output voltages having a common zero potential, and a series circuit having a choke coil and a smoothing capacitor, to which the voltages of said positive/negative voltage sources are applied by the ON/OFF operations of said high-side and low-side switches, is connected as a load, and said inverter circuit has a function of adjusting the ON/OFF periods of said high-side and low-side switches so as to output a predetermined AC voltage from said smoothing capacitor.

6. A multi-output switching power source apparatus comprising:

a DC power source;

a transformer having a primary winding and at least one output winding;

a main switching circuit for converting the voltage of said DC power source into an AC voltage by repeating ON/OFF operation and for inputting the voltage to said primary winding of said transformer;

a first secondary switching circuit connected to said primary winding and turning ON/OFF complementarily with said main switching circuit in order to rectify an AC voltage induced across said primary winding;

second to (n+1)th (n;

a natural number) secondary switching circuits connected to said first to nth output windings of said output windings and turning ON/OFF complementarily with said main switching circuit in order to rectify AC voltages induced across said first to nth output windings;

first to (n+1)th smoothing circuits for smoothing voltages rectified by said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits and for supplying first to (n+1)th DC output voltages to first to (n+1)th loads; and

a control drive circuit for turning ON said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits after said main switching circuit is turned OFF, for turning ON said main switching circuit after said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits are turned OFF, for detecting one of said first to (n+1)th DC output voltages, and for adjusting the ON period of said main switching circuit and the ON periods of said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits to stabilize the DC output voltage.

7. A multi-output switching power source apparatus in accordance with claim 6, wherein at least one of said plurality of loads to which said first to nth DC output voltages are supplied has a load condition in which electric power flows from the load to said multi-output switching power source apparatus, and the electric power flowing from the load is output as electric power supplied to other loads to which the DC output voltages are supplied from said multi-output switching power source apparatus.

8. A multi-output switching power source apparatus in accordance with claim 6, wherein said control drive circuit comprises:

a control circuit for turning ON said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits after said main switching circuit is turned OFF, for detecting one of said first to (n+1)th DC output voltages, and for adjusting the ON periods of said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits to stabilize the DC output voltage; and

a drive circuit for turning ON said main switching circuit after said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits are turned OFF and for turned OFF said main switching circuit after a predetermined time.

9. A multi-output switching power source apparatus in accordance with claim 6, wherein said control drive circuit comprises:

a control circuit for turning ON said main switching circuit after said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits are turned OFF, for detecting one of said first to (n+1)th DC output voltages, and for adjusting the ON period of said main switching circuit to stabilize the DC output voltage; and

first to (n+1)th drive circuits for turning ON said first to (n+1)th secondary switching circuits after said main switching circuit is turned OFF and for turned OFF said main switching circuit after a predetermined time.

10. A multi-output switching power source apparatus in accordance with claim 6, wherein an inverter circuit comprising a series circuit having a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected between positive/negative voltage sources outputting positive/negative voltages, at least two of a plurality of DC output voltages having a common zero potential, and a series circuit having a choke coil and a smoothing capacitor, to which the voltages of said positive/negative voltage sources are applied by the ON/OFF operations of said high-side and low-side switches, is connected as a load, and said inverter circuit has a function of adjusting the ON/OFF periods of said high-side and low-side switches so as to output a predetermined AC voltage from said smoothing capacitor.