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US5508904A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Switching regulator having superimposing chopping-wave voltage forming circuit

Assignee: Nihon Protector Co Ltd
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Filing: 1994-12-14
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Granted: 1996-04-16
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Expires: 2014-12-14
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Abstract

Abstract A switching regulator includes a primary-side circuit having a rectifier circuit without a smoothing circuit for applying a high-frequency pulse input voltage to a primary side of a high-frequency transformer, a secondary-side circuit including a rectifier circuit and a smoothing circuit at a secondary side of the high-frequency transformer, a superimposing chopping-wave voltage forming circuit for forming a chopping-wave voltage or a saw-tooth-wave voltage in synchronism with a pulse frequency of the primary-side circuit to superimpose a secondary-side d.c. output detecting voltage on the chopping-wave voltage or the saw-tooth-wave voltage, a control circuit which outputs a pulse signal when the chopping-wave voltage or the saw-tooth-wave voltage formed by the superimposing chopping-wave voltage forming circuit exceeds a reference voltage and lowers a clock pulse in level by use of a latch characteristic on the basis of the outputted pulse signal and hold the clock pulse till a rising of a succeeding clock pulse to output the clock pulse to the primary-side circuit as a switching pulse signal, and a step-up circuit having a bypass line and an inductor arranged in parallel to each other between the rectifier circuit and the high-frequency transformer in the primary-side circuit.

Inventors

  • 👤 Hirohito Hara

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-11-02 09:31
CPC Classifications
H; H02; H02M; H02M1/00; H02M1/42; H02M1/4208; H02M1/4225; H02M3/00; H02M3/02; H02M3/04; H02M3/10; H02M3/145; H02M3/155; H02M3/156; H02M3/158; H02M3/22; H02M3/24; H02M3/28; H02M3/325; H02M3/335; H02M3/33538; H02M3/33546; Y; Y02; Y02B; Y02B70/00; Y02B70/10

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim 196 words
A switching regulator comprising: a primary-side circuit including a rectifier circuit without a smoothing circuit for applying a high-frequency pulse input voltage to a primary side of a high-frequency transformer; a secondary-side circuit including a rectifier circuit and a smoothing circuit at a secondary side of said high-frequency transformer; a superimposing chopping-wave voltage forming circuit for forming a chopping-wave voltage or a saw-tooth-wave voltage in synchronism with a pulse frequency of said primary-side circuit and superimposing a secondary-side d.c. output detecting voltage on the chopping-wave voltage or the saw-tooth-wave voltage; a control circuit which outputs a pulse signal when the superimposed chopping-wave voltage or the saw-tooth-wave voltage formed by said superimposing chopping-wave voltage forming circuit exceeds a reference voltage and lowers a clock pulse in level by use of a latch characteristic on the basis of the outputted pulse signal and hold the clock pulse till a rising of a succeeding clock pulse to output the clock pulse to said primary-side circuit as a switching pulse signal; and a step-up circuit having a bypass line and an inductor arranged in parallel to each other between said rectifier circuit and said high-frequency transformer in said primary-side circuit.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 196 words
A switching regulator comprising: a primary-side circuit including a rectifier circuit without a smoothing circuit for applying a high-frequency pulse input voltage to a primary side of a high-frequency transformer; a secondary-side circuit including a rectifier circuit and a smoothing circuit at a secondary side of said high-frequency transformer; a superimposing chopping-wave voltage forming circuit for forming a chopping-wave voltage or a saw-tooth-wave voltage in synchronism with a pulse frequency of said primary-side circuit and superimposing a secondary-side d.c. output detecting voltage on the chopping-wave voltage or the saw-tooth-wave voltage; a control circuit which outputs a pulse signal when the superimposed chopping-wave voltage or the saw-tooth-wave voltage formed by said superimposing chopping-wave voltage forming circuit exceeds a reference voltage and lowers a clock pulse in level by use of a latch characteristic on the basis of the outputted pulse signal and hold the clock pulse till a rising of a succeeding clock pulse to output the clock pulse to said primary-side circuit as a switching pulse signal; and a step-up circuit having a bypass line and an inductor arranged in parallel to each other between said rectifier circuit and said high-frequency transformer in said primary-side circuit.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 27 words
A switching regulator as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a switching circuit for controlling a current flowing in said inductor according to an input voltage waveform.

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