# US 9,520,795 B2 · Method of forming a power supply controller and structure therefor > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,520,795 B2 - Document ID: US9520795B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/149,997 - Filed: 2014-01-08 - Published: 2015-07-09 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2014-01-08 - Assignees: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC - Applicants: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC - Inventors: Roman Stuler; Vaclav Drda - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9520795B2 ## CPC - H02M 3/33523: {with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop} - H02M 3/01: {Resonant DC/DC converters} - H02M 3/33571: {Half-bridge at primary side of an isolation transformer} - H02M 1/0022: {the disturbance parameters being input voltage fluctuations} - 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) - Y02B: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS ## Abstract In one embodiment, a power supply controller may be configured to form a status signal that is representative of a secondary current by substantially removing a primary magnetization component from a primary current signal and to use the status signal to form a first signal that is representative of a delivered output power, and configured to adjust an on-time of one of a first or second switch responsively to the delivered output power. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A power supply controller comprising: a control circuit configured to form at least one switching control signal to control first and second switches to form a primary current through a resonant circuit to regulate an output voltage to a load from an input voltage and form a load current for the load wherein the first switch is enabled to supply current from the input voltage; a first circuit configured to receive a first signal that is representative of a value of the primary current and to receive a second signal that is representative of a value of the input voltage and responsively form a control signal having a value that is proportional to a delivered output power; a feedback circuit configured to receive a signal that is representative of the output voltage and form a feedback signal that is representative of the output voltage; a first compensation circuit configured to form a third signal that is proportional to a value that the input voltage has during at least a portion of a time that the first switch is enabled and to use the third signal to decrease a value of the feedback signal proportional to the input voltage wherein the decrease is performed in response to enabling the first switch; the power supply controller configured to adjust one of the first signal proportionally to the control signal to form a compensated current sense signal or to adjust the feedback signal proportionally to the control signal to form a compensated feedback signal; and the control circuit configured to terminate an ON-time of the first switch responsively to one of the compensated current sense signal approximately equaling the feedback signal or the compensated feedback signal approximately equaling the first signal. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The power supply controller circuit of claim 1 wherein the first compensation circuit includes a variable current source configured to form the third signal as a first current having a value that decreases the value of the feedback signal proportionally to the value of the input voltage to adjust a value of the ON-time of the first switch. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The power supply controller circuit of claim 2 wherein the first compensation circuit includes an input control circuit configured to form a control signal having a value that is proportional to the input voltage including forming the value of the control signal responsively only to the control circuit forming a state to enable the first switch. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The power supply controller circuit of claim 3 wherein the input control circuit is configured adjust the value of control signal of the input control circuit responsively to the control circuit forming the state to enable the first switch. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The power supply controller circuit of claim 2 wherein the first compensation circuit includes a D/A converter that is configured to determine the on-time of the first switch in order to form the feedback control signal from the input voltage. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The power supply controller circuit of claim 1 wherein the first circuit is configured to form the value of the control signal to be substantially proportional to the input voltage and substantially proportional to the delivered output power wherein the power supply controller adjusts a value of the compensated current sense signal by the value of the power control signal to adjust a duration of the ON-time of the first switch. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The power supply controller circuit of claim 6 wherein the first circuit includes a load circuit configured to form a load status signal that is representative of the load current. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The power supply controller circuit of claim 7 wherein the first circuit includes a power circuit configured to receive the load status signal and a signal representative of the input voltage and form the control signal having a value that is proportional to the input voltage and to the delivered output power. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The power supply controller circuit of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is configured to form an ON-time of the second switch to be approximately equal to the ON-time of the first switch. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The power supply controller circuit of claim 1 wherein the first compensation circuit is configured such that the third signal can change in response to changes of the input voltage during the portion of the time that the first switch is enabled. ### Claim 11 A power supply controller comprising: a control circuit configured to form at least one switching control signal to control first and second switches to form a primary current through a resonant circuit to regulate an output voltage to a load from an input voltage and form a load current for the load; a first circuit configured to receive a first signal that is representative of a value of the primary current and to receive a second signal that is representative of the input voltage and responsively form a control signal having a value that is proportional to a delivered output power, the first circuit including a load circuit that is configured to form a load status signal, the load circuit having a derivation circuit that forms a derivative signal that is representative of a derivative of the first signal; a feedback circuit configured to receive a signal that is representative of the output voltage and form a feedback signal that is representative of the output voltage; a first compensation circuit configured to decrease a value of the feedback signal proportional to a value of the input voltage responsively to enabling the first switch; the power supply controller configured to adjust one of the first signal proportionally to the control signal to form a compensated current sense signal or to adjust the feedback signal proportionally to the control signal to form a compensated feedback signal; and the control circuit configured to terminate an ON-time of the first switch responsively to one of the compensated current sense signal approximately equaling the feedback signal or the compensated feedback signal approximately equaling the first signal. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The power supply controller circuit of claim 11 wherein the load circuit also including a gating circuit that receives the derivative signal and receives a switching signal that is representative of the ON-time of the first switch, the gating circuit configured to couple the derivative signal to the load status signal responsively to an asserted state of the switching signal and to negate the load status signal responsively to a negated state of the switching signal. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The power supply controller circuit of claim 11 wherein the first circuit includes a power circuit having a multiplier wherein the multiplier has a first input coupled to receive the load status signal and a second input coupled to receive the second signal, the multiplier configured to multiply the second signal by the load status signal and form the control signal as an average value of the resulting multiplicand. ### Claim 14 A method of forming a power supply controller comprising: configuring the power supply controller to form at least one switching control signal to control first and second switches to form a primary current through a resonant circuit to regulate an output voltage to a load from an input voltage and form a load current for the load; configuring the power supply controller to receive a feedback signal that is representative of the output voltage; configuring a first circuit to receive a first signal that is representative of the primary current and form a status signal that is representative of the secondary current by substantially removing a primary magnetization component of the primary current, wherein the removing is performed only during an on-time of the first switch; configuring a second circuit to receive the first signal, the status signal, and a signal representative of a value of the input voltage and responsively form a control signal having a value that is proportional to a delivered output power, wherein the power supply controller is configured to form a compensated current sense signal by adjusting the first signal proportionally to the control signal; and configuring the power supply controller to use the compensated current sense signal to adjust an on-time of the first switch. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14 wherein configuring the first circuit includes configuring the first circuit to substantially remove the primary magnetization component of the resonant circuit from the first signal. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15 further including configuring the first circuit to use the primary current during an on-time of the at least one switching control signal. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14 further including configuring the first circuit and the second circuit to be devoid of an integrating circuit that integrates the first signal. ### Claim 18 A method of forming a power supply controller comprising: configuring the power supply controller to form at least one switching control signal to control first and second switches to form a primary current through a resonant circuit to regulate an output voltage to a load from an input voltage and form a load current for the load; configuring the power supply controller to form a signal that is representative of the output voltage; configuring the power supply controller to form a status signal that is representative of the secondary current by substantially removing a primary magnetization component of the primary current, wherein the removing is performed only during an on-time of the first switch; configuring the power supply controller to use the status signal to form a first signal that is representative of a delivered output power; and configuring the power supply controller to adjust an on-time of one of the first or second switches responsively to the delivered output power. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18 whereon configuring the power supply controller to use the status signal to form the first signal includes configuring the power supply controller to use the status signal and a third signal that is representative of the input voltage to determine the delivered output power. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18 further including configuring the power supply controller to multiply together the status signal and the third signal and form an average value of the multiplicand.