Control circuit for a switch unit of a clocked power supply circuit, and resonance converter

US7969754B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Infineon Technologies AG · DE
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. · DE

Inventors

• Matthias Radecker · Duisburg, DE
• Fabio Bisogno · Sankt Augustin, DE
• Michael Herfurth · Gilching, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 14, 2009
• Grant date: Jun 28, 2011
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02B70/10
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A control circuit for a switch unit of a clocked power supply receives an auxiliary signal from a resonant transformer driven by the switch unit and detects reference crossing moments when the auxiliary signal crosses a reference value. A driver is controllable to switch the switch unit, and a synchronization circuit synchronizes a turn-on of the switch unit within a predetermined time interval around a zero crossing of a voltage present across the switch unit, or of a current flowing through the switch unit. The synchronization circuit receives information about the reference crossing moments and provides a turn-on signal to the driver with a fixed phase delay at the reference crossing moments, so as to define turn-on moments at which the driver is to turn on the switch unit.