Synchronous rectifier driving method, synchronous rectifier circuit and switching power supply

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10044284-B2
Application number	US-201515578255-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 26, 2015
Priority date	Jun 1, 2015
Publication date	Aug 7, 2018
Grant date	Aug 7, 2018

Abstract

A synchronous rectifier driving method, a synchronous rectifier circuit and a switching power supply are provided, and the method includes: detecting an output current in a secondary winding of a transformer unit, and generating a first driving signal according to the output current; obtaining a protection signal according to a voltage signal of the secondary winding of the transformer unit in a synchronous rectifier circuit; correcting the first driving signal by using the obtained protection signal to obtain a second driving signal; and driving a rectifier in the synchronous rectifier circuit according to the second driving signal.

First claim

What we claim is:

1. A synchronous rectifier driving method, used for driving a rectifier in a synchronous rectifier circuit, wherein the synchronous rectifier driving method comprises: detecting an output current in a secondary winding of a transformer unit, and generating a first driving signal according to the output current, wherein the method comprises:
obtaining a protection signal according to a voltage signal of the secondary winding of the transformer unit in a synchronous rectifier circuit;
correcting the first driving signal by using the obtained protection signal to obtain a second driving signal; and
driving a rectifier in the synchronous rectifier circuit according to the second driving signal; wherein said obtaining a protection signal according to a voltage signal of the secondary winding of the transformer unit comprises:
detecting a first voltage and a second voltage at two ends of the secondary winding of the transformer unit and obtaining the protection signal according to a comparison result of the first voltage and the second voltage.

2. The synchronous rectifier driving method according to claim 1 , wherein the protection signal includes a first voltage signal inputA and a second voltage signal inputB,
said obtaining the protection signal according to a comparison result of the first voltage and the second voltage comprises: when the first voltage VA is greater than the second voltage VB, the first voltage signal inputA is a high-level signal and the second voltage signal inputB is a low-level signal; when the first voltage VA is less than the second voltage VB, the first voltage signal inputA is a low-level signal and the second voltage signal inputB is a high-level signal.

3. The synchronous rectifier driving method according to claim 1 , wherein said correcting the first driving signal by using the obtained protection signal to obtain a second driving signal comprises:
carrying out an AND operation on the first driving signal and the protection signal, using a result of the AND operation as the second driving signal.

4. A synchronous rectifier circuit, comprising: a transformer unit, a current sampling unit, a first signal processing unit, a driving unit and a synchronous rectifier unit, wherein the current sampling unit is configured to detect an output current in a secondary winding of the transformer unit; the first signal processing unit is configured to generate a first driving signal according to the output current in the secondary winding of the transformer unit; wherein the synchronous rectifier circuit further comprises a protection unit and a second signal processing unit;
the protection unit is configured to obtain a protection signal according to a voltage signal of the secondary winding of the transformer unit in the synchronous rectifier circuit;
the second signal processing unit is configured to correct the first driving signal by using the obtained protection signal to obtain a second driving signal; and
the driving unit is configured to drive a rectifier in the synchronous rectifier circuit according to the second driving signal; wherein
the transformer unit comprises one or more transformers and each transformer comprises one or more secondary windings; the current sampling unit comprises a first instrument transformer and a rectification circuit;
a primary side of the first instrument transformer is connected in series to a first secondary winding which is one of secondary windings corresponding to any transformer; a secondary side of the first instrument transformer is connected to the rectification circuit; the rectification circuit generates a first voltage signal VR left and a second voltage signal VR right according to a current signal output by the first instrument transformer.

5. The synchronous rectifier circuit according to claim 4 , wherein the first signal processing unit comprises a first comparison circuit, and the first driving signal includes a third voltage signal V left and a fourth voltage signal V right ;
a reference voltage V ref1 is set in the first comparison circuit and the first comparison circuit obtains the third voltage signal V left by comparing the first voltage signal VR left with the reference voltage V ref1 and obtains the fourth voltage signal V right by comparing the second voltage signal VR right with the reference voltage V ref1 , wherein the third voltage signal V left and the fourth voltage signal V right are both square signals.

6. The synchronous rectifier circuit according to claim 4 , wherein the protection unit comprises a voltage detecting circuit and a second comparison circuit, the protection signal includes a fifth voltage signal inputA and a sixth voltage signal inputB;
input ends of the voltage detecting circuit are respectively connected to two ends of a second secondary winding, and detected seventh voltage signal V A and eighth voltage signal V B are provided to the second comparison circuit, wherein the second secondary winding is one of secondary windings corresponding to any transformer;
the second comparison circuit compares the seventh voltage signal V A and the eighth voltage signal V B according to the detected seventh voltage signal V A and eighth voltage signal V B to obtain the fifth voltage signal inputA and the sixth voltage signal inputB.

7. The synchronous rectifier circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the protection signal includes the fifth voltage signal inputA and the sixth voltage signal inputB;
the second comparison circuit is configured as that: when the seventh voltage signal V A is greater than the eighth voltage signal V B , the output fifth voltage signal inputA is a high-level signal and the output sixth voltage signal inputB is a low-level signal; when the seventh voltage signal V A is less than the eighth voltage signal V B , the output fifth voltage signal inputA is a low-level signal and the output sixth voltage signal inputB is a high-level signal.

8. The synchronous rectifier circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the second signal processing unit is configured to carry out an AND operation on the first driving signal and the protection signal, use a result of the AND operation as the second driving signal; the second driving signal includes a first driving signal outputA and a second driving signal outputB;
wherein an AND operation is carried out on the third voltage signal V left and the fifth voltage signal inputA to obtain the first driving signal outputA; an AND operation is carried out on the fourth voltage signal V right and the sixth voltage signal inputB to obtain the second driving signal outputB.

9. A switching power supply, comprising the synchronous rectifier circuit according to claim 4 .

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Wang Qia
• Fan Jie
• Liu Hongjin
• Lin Guoxian
• Du Fengfu
• Dong Xiufeng
• Zhou Jianping

Classifications

• H02M1/32

  Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection · CPC title

• H02M1/088

  for the simultaneous control of series or parallel connected semiconductor devices · CPC title

• H02M7/219

  in a bridge configuration · CPC title

• H02M3/33592 Primary

  having a synchronous rectifier circuit or a synchronous freewheeling circuit at the secondary side of an isolation transformer · CPC title

• H02M2007/2195

  Electricity · mapped topic