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Switching power supply unit

US6295214A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 29, 2000
Grant dateSep 25, 2001
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Expiry dateMar 29, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02M1/0009
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A switching power supply unit, which rectifies and smoothes an AC current and an AC voltage from the on-off switching operation of a main switching element to output a DC current and a DC voltage, has an output current detection circuit including a current detection resistor disposed in an intermittent-current flowing path through which a current intermittently flows in sync with the on-off switching operation of the main switching element, a synchronous rectifying a switching element for rectifying a current flowing through the current detection resistor, and a capacitor for charging the current rectified by the synchronous rectifying element, wherein the current flowing through the current detection resistor is charged in the capacitor by a rectifying operation of the synchronous rectifying element, and the charging voltage of the capacitor is outputted as a voltage corresponding to the output current of the switching power supply unit.

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