Switching power supply device

• US 9,257,912 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2014
• Issued: 02/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Hosotani, Tatsuya, Yamaguchi, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, MATTHEW VAN
• Application Number:
  US14/481,031
• Publication Number:
  US 20140376274A1
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/325 Coil bobbins formers for coils in general H01F5/02
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/06 for changing the wave shape
• 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 3/01 Resonant DC/DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33546 with automatic control of the output voltage or current H02M3/33561 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33571 Half-bridge at primary 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

In a switching power supply device, a partition portion that includes a slit divides a winding portion of a bobbin. A primary winding of a transformer is wound to a height h1 in a first section, and a secondary winding is wound to a height h2 in a second section. A low side drive winding and a high side drive winding are wound around the primary winding to a height h3 with the high side drive winding being located toward the secondary winding.

Claims

1. A switching power supply device, comprising:

a power supply voltage inputting unit configured to accept input of an input power supply voltage;

a direct current voltage outputting unit configured to output a direct current voltage;

a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding that are wound around a winding portion of a bobbin, a low side drive winding, a high side drive winding, and a core defining a closed magnetic circuit;

a capacitor that defines an LC resonant circuit including the primary winding;

a series circuit that is connected to the power supply voltage inputting unit and that includes a low side switching element and a high side switching element; and

a switching controlling circuit that includes a low side switching controlling unit configured or programmed to control the low side switching element and a high side switching controlling unit configured or programmed to control the high side switching element;

wherein

the LC resonant circuit includes a leakage inductance of the primary winding or the secondary winding of the transformer;

the low side switching element is connected to the primary winding in series and is configured to apply a voltage of the power supply voltage inputting unit to the primary winding upon being turned on;

the low side switching controlling unit is configured or programmed to turn on the low side switching element upon detecting a reversal of a polarity of a winding voltage generated in the low side drive winding and turn off the low side switching element at a timing that is based on a feedback signal of a circuit that detects an output voltage;

the high side switching controlling unit is configured or programmed to turn on the high side switching element upon detecting a reversal of a polarity of a winding voltage generated in the high side drive winding and turn off the high side switching element in accordance with an on time of the low side switching element;

the bobbin includes a partition portion that includes a slit;

the partition portion is provided along an outer periphery of the winding portion and divides the winding portion into a first winding area in which the primary winding is wound and a second winding area in which the secondary winding is wound;

the primary winding is wound to a first height h1 from the outer periphery of the winding portion;

the secondary winding is wound to a second height h2 from the outer periphery of the winding portion; and

the low side drive winding and the high side drive winding are wound on the primary winding so as to be next to each other in a winding axis direction with the high side drive winding located toward the secondary winding.

2. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, further comprising a cover that includes a protruding portion configured to be fitted into the slit and that covers the primary winding, the secondary winding, the low side drive winding, and the high side drive winding.

3. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein a height of the partition portion at a side that opposes a board on which the transformer is mounted is greater than the second height h2.

4. The switching power supply device according to claim 2, wherein the partition portion is provided at a position that is offset from a middle of the winding portion along the winding axis.

5. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein the secondary winding has a center tap removed therefrom and includes a first winding and a second winding that are wound as a bifilar winding.

6. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein a cross-section of the core along a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the winding axis has a flat shape that is shortest in a direction that corresponds to the height dimension when the transformer is mounted.

7. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein the capacitor is connected between the high side switching element and the low side switching element.

8. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein the core is an E-type core.

9. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein the bobbin includes a cylindrical portion, end plates are provided on a peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion at two ends thereof, and partition plates are provided on the peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion spaced from the end plates.

10. The switching power supply device according to claim 9, wherein a height of the end plates and the partition plates at a lower side of the transformer is greater than the height of the end plates and the partition plates at an upper side of the transformer.

11. The switching power supply device according to claim 10, wherein the height of the end plates and the partition plates at the upper side of the transformer is equal or substantially equal to a height of the secondary winding.

12. The switching power supply device according to claim 9, wherein the partition plates and the slit are provided between the primary winding and the secondary winding.

13. The switching power supply device according to claim 9, wherein the core includes a first core and a second core separated by a gap at a middle or approximate middle of the cylindrical portion.

14. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein outermost peripheries of the high side drive winding and the low side drive winding are level with an outermost periphery of the secondary winding.

15. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein a cross-sectional area of one of the high side drive winding and the low side drive winding is the same or substantially the same as a cross-sectional area of the secondary winding.

16. The switching power supply device according to claim 2, wherein the cover includes a protruding portion that fits into the slit.

17. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein the high side switching controlling unit includes a bidirectional constant current circuit that includes a diode bridge rectifying circuit that includes diodes and a constant current circuit.

18. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, wherein the high side switching controlling unit includes an impedance circuit including a capacitor, a diode, resistors, and an inductor.

19. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, further comprising a diode bridge circuit including diodes and the capacitor connected to the secondary winding.

20. The switching power supply device according to claim 1, further comprising a rectifying smoothing circuit including a diode and a capacitor provided between two ends of the secondary winding.