Switching power supply circuit

• US 7,388,762 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2007
• Issued: 06/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2006
• 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): BERHANE, ADOLF D
• Application Number:
  US11/705,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20070201251A1
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 363/15, 363/20, 363/21.1, 363/21.02, 363/21.03, 363/95, 363/97
• US Class Current: 363/21.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0058 by employing soft switching techniques, i.e. commutation of transistors when applied voltage is zero or when current flow is zero using an auxiliary actively switched resonant commutation circuit connected to an intermediate DC voltage or between two push-pull branches of an inverter bridge H02M7/4811; in resonant inverters H02M7/4815; in inverters operating from a resonant DC source H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33507 with automatic control of the output voltage or current, e.g. flyback converters H02M3/33561, H02M3/33569 take precedence
• 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 may provide a switching power supply circuit for converting primary side direct-current voltage to secondary side direct-current voltage. The switching power supply circuit may include a choke coil, a converter transformer; a switching element, a primary side series resonant capacitor, a primary side parallel resonant capacitor, an oscillating and driving circuit, a secondary side rectifier circuit, and a control circuit. Resonance frequency of the primary side first series resonant circuit may be set at a frequency substantially twice resonance frequency of the primary side second series resonant circuit. Resonance frequency of the primary side parallel resonant circuit may be set at a frequency substantially equal to or higher than 1.5 times the resonance frequency of the primary side first series resonant circuit.

Claims

1. A switching power supply circuit for converting primary side direct-current voltage to secondary side direct-current voltage, said switching power supply circuit comprising:

a choke coil supplied with said primary side direct-current voltage;

a converter transformer having a primary winding on a primary side, the primary winding being connected to said choke coil, and a secondary winding on a secondary side;

a switching element for switching said primary side direct-current voltage supplied via said choke coil and the primary winding of said converter transformer;

a primary side series resonant capacitor having one terminal connected to a point of connection between said choke coil and said primary winding, the primary side series resonant capacitor forming a primary side first series resonant circuit with an inductance of said choke coil and forming a primary side second series resonant circuit with a leakage inductance occurring at said primary winding;

a primary side parallel resonant capacitor connected in parallel with said switching element, the primary side parallel resonant capacitor forming a primary side parallel resonant circuit with the inductance of said choke coil and the leakage inductance occurring at said primary winding;

an oscillating and driving circuit for on-off driving of said switching element;

a secondary side rectifier circuit for generating said secondary side direct-current voltage, the secondary side rectifier circuit being connected to the secondary winding of said converter transformer, a switching output of said switching element being transmitted to the secondary winding of the converter transformer; and

a control circuit for supplying a control signal to make a value of said secondary side direct-current voltage output by said secondary side rectifier circuit a predetermined value to said oscillating and driving circuit;

wherein resonance frequency of said primary side first series resonant circuit is set at a frequency substantially twice resonance frequency of said primary side second series resonant circuit, and

resonance frequency of said primary side parallel resonant circuit is set at a frequency substantially equal to or higher than 1.5 times the resonance frequency of said primary side first series resonant circuit.

2. The switching power supply circuit as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an active clamping circuit for clamping a voltage applied to said switching element, the active clamping circuit being connected in parallel with a series circuit of said choke coil and the primary winding of said converter transformer, the active clamping circuit being formed by connecting an auxiliary switching element, which is turned on complementarily to said switching element, and a voltage clamping capacitor in series with each other.

3. The switching power supply circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the secondary side rectifier circuit connected to the secondary winding of said converter transformer has one of a partial voltage resonant capacitor and a parallel resonant capacitor connected in parallel with said secondary winding, the partial voltage resonant capacitor and the parallel resonant capacitor forming a partial voltage resonant circuit and a voltage resonant circuit respectively, together with a leakage inductance occurring at said secondary winding.

4. The switching power supply circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the secondary side rectifier circuit connected to said secondary winding of said converter transformer has a secondary side series resonant capacitor connected in series with said secondary winding, a leakage inductance occurring at said secondary winding and said secondary side series resonant capacitor forming a secondary side series resonant circuit.

5. The switching power supply circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein another terminal, which is supplied with said primary side direct-current voltage, of said primary side series resonant capacitor is connected to one terminal of said choke coil.

6. The switching power supply circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said converter transformer has a core, and said primary winding and said secondary winding are wound around the core so as to be divided from each other, whereby said primary side and said secondary side are insulated from each other in terms of direct current.

7. The switching power supply circuit as claimed in claim 6, wherein loose coupling between said primary winding and said secondary winding is obtained by an interval of a gap provided in said core.

8. The switching power supply circuit as claimed in claim 7, wherein said core is an EE-shaped core formed by combining two pieces of ferrite material having E-shaped magnetic legs with each other such that the magnetic legs are opposed to each other, and

said gap is formed in a central magnetic leg of said core, and said primary winding and said secondary winding are wound around the central magnetic leg of said core so as to be divided from each other via a bobbin.

9. The switching power supply circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said primary side direct-current voltage is supplied from a rectifying and smoothing circuit having a rectifying element for rectifying an alternating input voltage and a smoothing capacitor for smoothing a rectified output from the rectifying element.