Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the output of a DC/DC converter constant by clamping an error amplifier output signal of a control circuit to a voltage proportional to the amplitude of DC signals inversely proportional to the frequency or by giving an offset equal to a voltage difference between a constant voltage and DC signal to a signal occurred in a current sensing resistor. SOLUTION: A sawtooth wave signal generated by an oscillator is detected by a capacitor Cosc of an RC group. A process of generating a DC signal having an amplitude inversely proportional to that frequency, a process of clamping an error amplifier E/A output voltage to a voltage having an amplitude proportional to the amplitude of the DC signal, or a process of off-setting a signal in a current sensing resistor by a voltage, corresponding to the difference between the constant voltage and DC signal is carried out. By doing this, it becomes possible to obtain a method and a compensating circuit which can be easily realized independently of the characteristics of synchronous signal controlling the switching frequency, and can make the output power of a converter constant against the changes in switching frequency.
Abstract:
The present invention refers to a starting circuit for switching power supplies (SMPS), to a switching power supply comprising a starting circuit )and an integrated circuit of a switching power supply. In an embodiment thereof the starting circuit (13) for switching power supplies having a first supply voltage (Vin) coming from a first terminal and a second supply voltage (Vcc) coming from a second terminal and a third tenninal (30); said starting circuit comprises: a first current path between said first terminal and said third terminal (30); a second current path between said first tenninal and said second terminal; a third current path between said second terminal and said third terminal (30); a two-way voltage regulator (M3, Dz2, R5, R6) placed along said second current path.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit (100) controls a switch (M) of a switching current regulator. The current regulator comprises primary (L1) and secondary (L2) windings where a first (Ip) and a second (Is) current flow, respectively. The switch (M) is adapted to initiate or interrupt the circulation of the first current (Ip) in the primary winding. The control integrated circuit (100) comprises a comparator (4) configured to compare a first signal (Vcs) representative of said first current to a second signal (Vcsref) and a divider circuit (7) configured to generate said second signal as a ratio of a third signal (A), proportional to a voltage on the primary winding, with a voltage on a capacitor (Ct). The capacitor (Ct) is charged by a further current controlled by the third signal (A) when the second current (Is) is different from zero and is discharged through a resistor (Rt) when the value of said second current is substantially zero.
Abstract:
An integrated control circuit of a switch is described, which is adapted to open or close a current path; said integrated circuit includes a comparator to compare a first signal with a second signal representative of the current flowing through said current path. The comparator outputs a third variable signal between a low logic level and a high logic level according to whether said second signal is lower than said first signal or vice versa; the integrated circuit has a driver to generate a signal to drive said switch in response to the third signal, and is configured to detect a spike on the leading edge of said second signal and to blank said third signal for a first blanking time period which depends on a turn-on delay of said switch and a second blanking period which depends on the duration of said spike on the leading edge of said second signal.
Abstract:
Herein described is a control device of a device for the correction of the power factor in forced switching power supplies; said device for the correction of the power factor comprises a converter and said control device is coupled to the converter to obtain from an alternating input line voltage a regulated output voltage. The control device comprises generating means associated to a capacitor for generating a signal representative of the root-mean-square value of the alternating line voltage; the generating means are associated to means for discharging said capacitor. The control device comprises further means for discharging the capacitor suitable for discharging said capacitor when the signal representative of the root-mean-square value of the alternating line voltage goes below a given value.
Abstract:
The present invention refers to the switching power supply and particularly to the integrated circuits used for the control of such power supplies. It refers more particularly to a control circuit of the minimum working voltage of the integrated control circuits of such power supplies. In one embodiment the control circuit of the minimum working voltage of the integrated control circuit of a switching power supply having a supply voltage (Vcc); characterized in that said minimum working voltage can assume a first voltage value (Vstop1) and a second voltage value (Vstop2); said first voltage value (Vstop1) is higher than said second voltage value (Vstop2); said minimum working voltage switches from said first voltage value (Vstop1) to said second voltage value (Vstop2) in case of low or null load of said switching power supply; said minimum working voltage switches from said second voltage value (Vstop2) to said first voltage value (Vstop1) if the load is higher than a prefixed load of said switching power supply and at the same time said supply voltage (Vcc) is higher than said first voltage value (Vstop1).