Switching power supply circuit

• US 7,339,801 B2
• Filed: 04/05/2006
• Issued: 03/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yasumura, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): HAN, YOUNGHUIE JESSICA
• Application Number:
  US11/398,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20060227576A1
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• Field of Search: 363/16, 363/21.01, 363/21.02, 363/21.04, 363/21.1, 363/37, 363/40, 363/41, 363/97, 363/131
• US Class Current: 363/21.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/335 using semiconductor devices only
• 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

The present invention provides a voltage resonant converter that achieves ZVS over the entire allowable load range. A switching power supply circuit includes a class-E resonant converter as its primary-side switching converter that is supplied with a DC input voltage arising from the rectification and smoothing of a commercial AC voltage by a rectifier circuit (including a smoothing capacitor Ci). A choke coil of a primary-side series resonant circuit in the class-E switching converter is used as a primary winding N1 in an isolation converter transformer PIT. The total coupling coefficient between the primary side and secondary side is set to about 0.65 by the coupling coefficient of the isolation converter transformer PIT itself and equivalent parallel connection between a choke coil L10 and the primary winding N1. The resonant frequency fo1 of a primary-side parallel resonant circuit and the resonant frequency fo2 of the primary-side series resonant circuit are set to almost the same value of about 60 kHz.

Claims

1. A switching power supply circuit comprising:

a main switching element that is supplied with a direct-current (DC) voltage and implements switching;

a switching drive unit that switch-drives the main switching element;

a first inductor that is provided in series to a path through-which the DC voltage is supplied to the main switching element;

a primary-side parallel resonant capacitor that is connected in parallel to the main switching element so that at least an inductance of the first inductor and a capacitance of the primary-side parallel resonant capacitor form a primary-side parallel resonant circuit having a certain first resonant frequency;

a second inductor;

a primary-side series resonant capacitor that is connected in series to the second inductor so that at least an inductance of the second inductor and a capacitance of the primary-side series resonant capacitor form a primary-side series resonant circuit having a certain second resonant frequency regarded as equivalent to the first resonant frequency, and a series circuit of the second inductor and the primary-side series resonant capacitor is connected in parallel to the main switching element;

a converter transformer around which the second inductor as a primary winding and a secondary winding are wound, an output switching obtained in the primary winding inducing an alternating voltage in the secondary winding, a coupling coefficient of the converter transformer being set so that such a requisite total coupling coefficient between a primary side and a secondary side as to offer loose coupling therebetween is obtained;

a secondary-side DC output voltage generating unit that is supplied with the alternating voltage induced in the secondary winding of the converter transformer, and implements rectifying operation to thereby generate a secondary-side DC output voltage; and

a constant-voltage control unit that implements constant-voltage control of the secondary-side DC output voltage by controlling the switching drive unit according to a level of the secondary-side DC output voltage and thereby varying a switching frequency of the main switching element.

2. The switching power supply circuit according to claim 1, further comprising

a secondary-side series resonant circuit that arises from connecting of a secondary-side series resonant capacitor in series to the secondary winding of the converter transformer, and is formed of at least a leakage inductance component including the secondary winding and a capacitance of the secondary-side series resonant capacitor.

3. A switching power supply circuit comprising:

a rectifying and smoothing circuit that includes at least a rectifier element and a smoothing capacitor, the rectifying and smoothing circuit being supplied with an alternating-current (AC) voltage and implementing rectifying and smoothing operation for the AC voltage, to thereby generate a rectified and smoothed voltage as a voltage across the smoothing capacitor;

a main switching element that is-supplied with the rectified and smoothed voltage as a direct-current (DC) voltage and implements switching;

a switching drive unit that switch-drives the main switching element;

a first inductor that is provided in series to a path through which the rectified and smoothed voltage is supplied to the main switching element;

a primary-side parallel resonant capacitor that is connected in parallel to the main switching element so that at least an inductance of the first inductor and a capacitance of the primary-side parallel resonant capacitor form a primary-side parallel resonant circuit having a certain first resonant frequency;

a second inductor;

a primary-side series resonant capacitor that is connected in series to the second inductor so that at least an inductance of the second inductor and a capacitance of the primary-side series resonant capacitor form a primary-side series resonant circuit having a certain second resonant frequency regarded as equivalent to the first resonant frequency, and a series circuit of the second inductor and the primary-side series resonant capacitor is connected in parallel to the main switching element;

a converter transformer around which the second inductor as a primary winding and a secondary winding are wound, an output switching obtained in the primary winding inducing an alternating voltage in the secondary winding, a coupling coefficient of the converter transformer being set so that such a requisite total coupling coefficient between a primary side and a secondary side as to offer loose coupling therebetween is obtained;

a secondary-side DC output voltage generating unit that is supplied with the alternating voltage induced in the secondary winding of the converter transformer, and implements rectifying operation to thereby generate a secondary-side DC output voltage; and

a constant-voltage control unit that implements constant-voltage control of the secondary-side DC output voltage by controlling the switching drive unit according to a level of the secondary-side DC output voltage and thereby varying a switching frequency of the main switching element.

4. The switching power supply circuit according to claim 3, further comprising

a secondary-side series resonant circuit that arises from connecting of a secondary-side series resonant capacitor in series to the secondary winding of the converter transformer, and is formed of at least a leakage inductance component including the secondary winding and a capacitance of the secondary-side series resonant capacitor.

5. The switching power supply circuit according to claim 3, further comprising

an active clamp circuit that includes an auxiliary switching element and defines an ON period within a period during which the main switching element is in an off-state, the auxiliary switching element being in an on-state in the ON period, the active clamp circuit causing charging and discharging currents to flow through the auxiliary switching element during the ON period, the charging and discharging currents originally flowing to and from the primary-side parallel resonant capacitor in the absence of the active clamp circuit.