DC/DC CONVERTER CIRCUIT

• US 20110181265A1
• Filed: 01/13/2011
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: HIRAYAMA, Masahiko, MORI, Hisashi
• Application Number:
  US13/006,093
• Publication Number:
  US 20110181265A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 323/288
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/07 using capacitors charged and discharged alternately by semiconductor devices with control electrode , e.g. charge pumps
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/071 adapted to generate a negative voltage output from a positive voltage source

Abstract

A charging pump circuit of discharging electric charge charged during charging period to load during boosting period, and an amplifier and a voltage control resistor element arranged in feedback loop by being configured with the feedback loop of feeding back output voltage such that the output voltage of the charging pump circuit is made to be a predetermined value during boosting period are provided, the voltage control resistor element is controlled by the amplifier, and set to a control resistance value of enabling the charging pump circuit to control during boosting period, and the amplifier controls the voltage control resistor element such that the voltage control resistor element is brought into OFF state during charging period, and a resistance value of the voltage control resistor element is lowered to a control resistance value immediately after shifting from charging period to boosting period.

Claims

1. A DC/DC converter circuit comprising:

a charging pump circuit that discharges an electric charge charged during a charging period to a load during a boosting period; and

an amplifier and a voltage control resistor element arranged in a feedback loop by being configured with the feedback loop of feeding back an output voltage such that the output voltage of the charging pump circuit is made to be a predetermined value during the boosting period;

wherein the voltage control resistor element is controlled by the amplifier and sets to a control resistance value enabling to control the charging pump circuit during the boosting period; and

wherein the amplifier controls the voltage control resistor element such that the voltage control resistor element is brought into an OFF state during the charging period, and a resistance value of the voltage control resistor element is lowered to the control resistance value immediately after shifting from the charging period to the boosting period.

2. The DC/DC converter circuit according to claim 1,

wherein the voltage control resistor element is an MOSFET, and

wherein the amplifier couples an output terminal to a gate of the MOSFET, and is configured such that the output terminal can be set to a predetermined potential to bring the MOSFET into an OFF state during the charging period.

3. The DC/DC converter circuit according to claim 2, wherein the amplifier is a differential amplifier, and is configured such that a potential difference is provided between a converting input terminal and a nonconverting input terminal of the differential amplifier during the charging period.

4. The DC/DC converter circuit according to claim 3,

wherein the MOSFET is an NMOSFET of grounding a source thereof and coupling a drain thereof to the charging pump circuit;

wherein two pieces of resistor elements of coupling the load and a first reference voltage source in a serial mode are provided;

wherein the noninverting input terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to a point of coupling two pieces of the resistor elements; and

wherein a switching circuit coupling the inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier to a second reference voltage source having a reference voltage higher than a reference voltage of the first reference voltage source during the charging period, and grounding the inverting input terminal during the boosting period is provided.

5. The DC/DC converter circuit according to claim 2,

wherein the MOSFET is an NMOSFET grounding a source thereof and coupling a drain thereof to the charging pump circuit;

wherein two pieces of resistor elements of coupling the load and a first reference voltage source in a serial mode are provided;

wherein the amplifier is a differential amplifier;

wherein a noninverting input terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to a point of coupling two pieces of resistor elements;

wherein an inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier is grounded; and

wherein a switch circuit of making an output stage NMOS transistor of the differential amplifier ON such that the NMOSFET is brought into an OFF state during the charging period is provided.

6. The DC/DC converter circuit according to claim 3,

wherein the MOSFET is a PMOSFET coupling a source thereof to a power source, and coupling a drain thereof to the charging pump circuit;

wherein two pieces of resistor elements of coupling the load and the ground in a serial mode are provided;

wherein a noninverting input terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to a point of coupling two pieces of the resistor elements; and

wherein a switching circuit of grounding an inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier during the charging period, and coupling the inverting input terminal to a third reference voltage source during the boosting period is provided.

7. The DC/DC converter circuit according to claim 3, wherein the MOSFET is a PMOSFET of coupling a source thereof to a power source and coupling a drain thereof to the charging pump circuit;

wherein two pieces of resistor elements of coupling the load and the ground in a serial mode are provided;

wherein an inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to a third reference voltage source; and

wherein a switching circuit of coupling a noninverting input terminal of the differential amplifier to a fourth reference voltage source having a reference voltage higher than a reference voltage of the third reference voltage source during the charging period, and coupling the noninverting input terminal to a point of coupling two pieces of the resistor elements during the boosting period is provided.