Switching power supply circuit

• US 7,447,048 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2006
• Issued: 11/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2005
• 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): Patel; Rajnikant B
• Application Number:
  US11/508,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20070081365A1
• Time in Patent Office: 804 Days
• Field of Search: 363 18- 20, 363 211- 2118, 363/95, 363/96, 363/97, 363/37, 363/40
• US Class Current: 363/21.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/3381 using a single commutation path
• 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

In the switching power supply circuit disclosed in the present invention, the DC voltage is supplied to the primary winding in the converter transformer and the AC voltage is generated. First and second series resonant circuit are formed, and the resonant frequency of the first and second series resonant circuits are set to be substantially equal to each other. A parallel resonant circuit is formed, and the resonant frequency of the parallel resonant circuit is set higher than the resonant frequencies of the first and second series resonant circuits. The secondary winding includes first and second secondary windings so that currents are extracted from the first and second secondary windings, respectively, and a ratio of the number of turns of the first secondary winding to that of the second secondary winding is defined so that magnitudes of the currents are substantially equal to each other.

Claims

1. A switching power supply circuit comprising:

a switching element that implements switching for a direct-current (DC) voltage to thereby convert the DC voltage into an alternating-current (AC) voltage;

a converter transformer that includes a primary winding and a secondary winding, the AC voltage being input to the primary winding so that an AC voltage is generated in the secondary winding;

a secondary-side rectifying and smoothing circuit that includes a secondary-side rectifier element and a secondary-side smoothing capacitor for rectifying and smoothing the AC voltage generated in the secondary winding to thereby produce an output DC voltage; and

switching element control means that controls the switching element based on the output DC voltage;

wherein the DC voltage is supplied to one winding end of the primary winding in the converter transformer via a choke coil, and the switching element is connected to the other winding end of the primary winding in the converter transformer so that the AC voltage is generated,

a series resonant capacitor is coupled to a connecting node between the one winding end of the primary winding in the converter transformer and the choke coil, so that a first series resonant circuit of which resonant frequency is dominated by a leakage inductance arising in the primary winding in the converter transformer and the series resonant capacitor is formed, and so that a second series resonant circuit of which resonant frequency is dominated by an inductance of the choke coil and the series resonant capacitor is formed, and the resonant frequency of the first series resonant circuit and the resonant frequency of the second series resonant circuit are set to be substantially equal to each other,

a parallel resonant circuit of which resonant frequency is dominated by a primary-side parallel resonant capacitor connected in parallel to the switching element, the inductance of the choke coil and the leakage inductance arising in the primary winding is formed, and the resonant frequency of the parallel resonant circuit is set higher than the resonant frequency of the first series resonant circuit and the resonant frequency of the second series resonant circuit, and

the secondary winding includes a first secondary winding and a second secondary winding so that currents in directions of opposite polarities are extracted from the first and second secondary windings through a first rectifier diode and a second rectifier diode, respectively, included in the secondary-side rectifier element, and a ratio of the number of turns of the first secondary winding to the number of turns of the second secondary winding is defined so that magnitudes of the currents in directions of opposite polarities are substantially equal to each other.

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

a primary-side rectifying and smoothing circuit that includes a primary-side rectifier element and a primary-side smoothing capacitor for rectifying and smoothing an AC voltage to thereby produce a rectified and smoothed voltage, and supplies the DC voltage.

3. The switching power supply circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the secondary-side rectifier element includes series connection of the first rectifier diode and the second rectifier diode of which same-polarity ends of one polarity are connected to each other, and series connection of a third rectifier diode and a fourth rectifier diode of which same-polarity ends of the other polarity are connected to each other,

both ends of the secondary winding are connected to each end of the series connection of the first rectifier diode and the second rectifier diode, and both ends of the first secondary winding are connected to each end of the series connection of the third rectifier diode and the fourth rectifier diode, and

the secondary-side smoothing capacitor is connected to a connecting node between the first rectifier diode and the second rectifier diode and to a connecting node between the third rectifier diode and the fourth rectifier diode.

4. The switching power supply circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the secondary-side rectifier element includes a plurality of rectifier diodes that rectify an AC voltage output from a plurality of secondary windings,

the secondary-side smoothing capacitor includes a plurality of capacitors to which a rectified voltage generated through the plurality of rectifier diodes is charged,

the secondary-side rectifying and smoothing circuit serves as a voltage-doubler rectifying and smoothing circuit that produces an output DC voltage arising from addition of voltages charged in the plurality of capacitors, and

a ratio of the number of turns among the plurality of secondary windings is defined so that magnitudes of currents in positive and negative directions flowing through the rectifier diodes depending on magnetic flux in positive and negative directions generated in the converter transformer are equal to each other.

5. The switching power supply circuit according to claim 1, claim 3, or claim 4, wherein

one end of the first secondary winding and one end of the second secondary winding are connected in series to each other via a connecting node therebetween so that voltages generated in the first and second secondary windings are added to each other, and a partial voltage resonant capacitor for offering partial voltage resonance is connected to the other end of the first secondary winding and the other end of the second secondary winding.