# US 10,374,506 B1 · Adaptive control method for zero voltage switching

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- Number: US 10,374,506 B1
- Document ID: US10374506B1
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B1
- Application number: 16/174,307
- Filed: 2018-10-30
- Granted: 2019-08-06
- Earliest claimed: 2018-09-18
- Assignees: University of Electronics Science and Technology of China
- Applicants: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Inventors: Ze-kun Zhou; Jun-Lin Qian; Xiao-Lin Liu; Yue Shi; Zhuo Wang; Bo Zhang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10374506B1

## CPC

- H02M 1/083: {for the ignition at the zero crossing of the voltage or the current}
- H02M 3/156: with automatic control of output voltage or current, e.g. switching regulators
- H03K 21/08: Output circuits
- 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)}
- 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
- H02M: APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (transformers H01F; dynamo-electric converters H02K47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P)
- H03K: PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M)
- Y02B: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS

## Abstract

An adaptive control method for zero voltage switching belongs to the field of integrated circuit. In the present invention, the difference between the turn-on time of the power tube and the time of the lowest drain voltage of the power tube in the switching cycle is quantified by the reversible counter, and the quantized result is transmitted to the next switching cycle to adjust the turn-on time of the power tube through the final count result of the reversible counter, so that the power tube after being adjusted can be turned on when the drain voltage of the power tube is the lowest, thus reducing the switching loss. The present invention can adaptively turn on the power tube when the drain voltage of the power tube reaches minimum, thus, realizing the zero-voltage switching, reducing the switching loss of the switching power supply, widening the application range.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An adaptive control method for zero voltage switching, wherein the adaptive control method turns on a power tube at a lowest drain voltage by adjusting a turn-on time of the power tube in a switching power supply in each switching cycle, and the power tube is controlled to be turned on or off by a gate driving circuit;
in an Nth switching cycle, N is a positive integer greater than 1, the adaptive control method for adjusting the turn-on time of the power tube in the switching power supply comprises the following steps:
step 1, turning off the power tube, then controlling a reversible counter and a backward counter to start counting by using a clock signal; making the reversible counter to start counting from zero and the backward counter to start counting down from a value that is a final result generated by the reversible counter in an N−1th switching cycle;
step 2, when the backward counter counts to zero, making the backward counter stop counting and the reversible counter pause counting, and enabling the gate driving circuit;
step 3, detecting whether a drain voltage of the power tube reaches a minimum value and whether an output voltage of the gate driving circuit is inverted; when it is detected that the drain voltage of the power tube has reached the minimum value, controlling the reversible counter to count down until the output voltage of the gate driving circuit is detected to be inverted; on detecting that the output voltage of the gate driving circuit is inverted, making the reversible counter increment by one bit and then stop counting;
step 4, storing a final counting result of the reversible counter obtained in step 3 and using the final counting result as an initial value of the backward counter described in step 1 in an N+1th switching cycle, and then resetting the reversible counter;
during the first switching cycle, using the clock signal to control the reversible counter to increment from zero after the power tube is turned off, then detecting whether the drain voltage of the power tube reaches the minimum value; on detecting that the drain voltage of the power tube reaches the minimum value, enabling the gate driving circuit, making the reversible counter stop counting, and using a final counting result of the reversible counter in the first switching cycle as an initial value of the backward counter in the second switching cycle.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The adaptive control method for zero voltage switching of claim 1, wherein once a resonance occurs at a drain terminal of the power tube, in step 1, after turning off the power tube, firstly detecting whether the resonance occurs at the drain terminal of the power tube; on detecting that the resonance occurs, using an oscillator to generate the clock signal to control the reversible counter and the backward counter to start counting.