Adaptive synchronous rectifier sensing deglitch

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10418911-B2
Application number	US-201816115426-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 28, 2018
Priority date	Jun 30, 2017
Publication date	Sep 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 17, 2019

Abstract

A synchronous rectifier controller for controlling the on and off periods of a synchronous rectifier switch transistor in a switching power converter. In particular, the synchronous rectifier controller is configured to adaptively enable and disable a deglitch filter for filtering a turn-on signal for the synchronous rectifier switch transistor. In this fashion, the synchronous rectifier switch transistor may be switched on more rapidly during periods when the deglitch filter is disabled for greater efficiency yet the switching power converter is protected by the deglitch filter when it is not disabled.

First claim

We claim:

1. A synchronous rectifier (SR) controller for controlling an SR switch on a secondary side of a flyback converter, comprising:
a deglitch filter for filtering an SR switch signal to produce a filtered version of the SR switch signal; and
a deglitch control circuit configured to switch on the SR switch responsive to the SR switch signal during a first part of a power switch cycle and to switch on the SR switch responsive to the filtered version of the SR switch signal during a second part of the power switch cycle.

2. The SR controller of claim 1 , wherein the deglitch control circuit is further configured to deactivate the deglitch filter during the first part of the power switch cycle.

3. The SR controller of claim 1 , wherein the deglitch control circuit is further configured to integrate a difference between a voltage across the SR switch and an output voltage for the flyback converter to determine the first part of the power switch cycle and the second part of the power switch cycle.

4. The SR controller of claim 3 , wherein the deglitch control circuit is further configured to integrate the difference through an integration of a difference between the voltage across the SR switch and twice the output voltage.

5. The SR controller of claim 1 , further comprising:
a comparator configured to compare a voltage across the SR switch to a threshold voltage to generate the SR switch signal.

6. The SR controller of claim 1 , further comprising:
a comparator configured to compare the filtered version of the SR switch signal to a threshold to generate a comparator output signal, wherein the deglitch control circuit is further configured to switch on the SR switch during the second part of the power switch cycle responsive to the comparator output signal.

7. The SR controller of claim 1 , wherein the SR switch signal comprises a voltage across the SR switch.

8. The SR controller of claim 7 , wherein the voltage across the SR switch is a drain-to-source voltage.

Assignees

• Dialog Semiconductor Inc

Inventors

• Kong Pengju
• Li Tao
• Bui Hien
• Liang Wenbo
• Zhang Hanguang

Classifications

• H02M3/33592 Primary

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

• H03K5/1252

  Suppression or limitation of noise or interference (specially adapted for transmission systems H04B15/00, H04L25/08) · CPC title

• H02M1/08

  Circuits specially adapted for the generation of control voltages for semiconductor devices incorporated in static converters · CPC title

• Y02B70/1475

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02B70/10

  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 · CPC title