Control device of a power conversion circuit
AssigneesNagasaki University, Panasonic Corporation
InventorsFujio Kurokawa, Masahito Ohnishi
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Abstract
In a control device of a power converter circuit repeating accumulation of energy to an inductor and release of energy from the inductor at each turn on/turn off timing of a switch, a zero cross detecting circuit detects a time when a current flowing through the inductor becomes zero by inputting a voltage between both terminals of the inductor directly without any resistance for detecting the inductor current. There is no electricity loss caused by the resistance for detecting the inductor current and critical mode control of the power converter circuit is precisely carried out.
Claims4
A control device of a power converter circuit which has an inductor and a switch or switches and repeats accumulation of energy to an inductor at each turn on timing of the switch or switches and release of the energy from the inductor to output an output voltage at each turn off timing of the switch or switches, comprising:
- an on-time information generation circuit which receives a power converter circuit information including at least the output voltage from the power converter circuit, and generates an on-time information of the switch or switches as a numerical number;
- a zero cross detecting circuit which detects a time when a current flowing through the inductor becomes zero by inputting a voltage between both terminals of the inductor, and generates a zero cross detection signal when the current becomes zero;
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- a PWM signal generation circuit which receives the on-time information and the zero cross detection signal, and generates a turn on signal and a turn off signal,
- wherein the zero cross detecting circuit comprises an edge detecting circuit and a differential circuit, the differential circuit is placed in input side of the edge detecting circuit, and the zero cross detecting circuit generates the zero cross detecting signal when the edge detecting circuit detects an edge of the voltage between both terminals of the inductor based on a differential voltage signal generated by the differential circuit;
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- the PWM signal generation circuit generates the turn on signal when the zero cross detecting signal is received, and generates the turn off signal when a time based on the on-time information is passed,
- wherein the edge detecting circuit comprises a constant voltage circuit and a flip-flop circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.