DC voltage converter

Abstract

A DC voltage converter comprising: a switching transistor for establishing a load current circuit which connects a DC power source to a load to supply a load current to the load; a differentiating circuit connected in series to the load current circuit for producing a voltage drop corresponding to a differentiated value of the load current; an integrating capacitor connected in parallel with the load via an output terminal for outputting as an output voltage to be supplied to the load a voltage corresponding to an integrated value of a current flowing through the capacitor; a control width setting circuit for setting a width defined by upper and lower limits for controlling the output voltage in accordance with the voltage drop derived from the differentiating circuit; a ripple detection circuit receiving the output voltage from the capacitor and for detecting a ripple caused by an "ON-OFF" operation of the switching transistor; an output-reference-level setting circuit for setting a reference voltage of the output voltage; and a switching control circuit receiving a width signal corresponding to the width and a ripple signal corresponding to the ripple for forming a switching instruction to the switching transistor, so that a variation in the output voltage is limited within the width.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.