- Patent Title: Adaptive synchronous rectifier timing for resonant DC/DC converters
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Application No.: US15364994Application Date: 2016-11-30
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Publication No.: US10686386B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Darryl Tschirhart , Amir Babazadeh
- Applicant: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
- Applicant Address: AT Villach
- Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
- Current Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
- Current Assignee Address: AT Villach
- Agency: Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, PLLC
- Main IPC: H02M3/335
- IPC: H02M3/335 ; H02M1/088 ; H02M1/00

Abstract:
A resonant or semi-resonant DC/DC converter makes use of one or more synchronous rectification (SR) switches for rectifying an output current that is provided to a load of the converter. The SR switches are ideally turned off when zero current is flowing through them. To achieve such zero-current switching, the current through each of the SR switches is monitored and compared against a turn-off threshold. The turn-off threshold for a particular SR switch is determined from the slope of a waveform of the current together with a transition delay for turning off the SR switch. This transition delay typically includes a delay through a driver circuit for the SR switch together with a latency through the SR switch itself. Once it is detected that the current for an SR switch has dropped to or below the turn-off threshold, a signal is provided to the SR switch turning it off.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180152111A1 Adaptive Synchronous Rectifier Timing for Resonant DC/DC Converters Public/Granted day:2018-05-31
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