Resonant converter circuit with switching frequency control based on input voltage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11258368-B2
Application number	US-202016898207-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 10, 2020
Priority date	Jun 10, 2020
Publication date	Feb 22, 2022
Grant date	Feb 22, 2022

Abstract

A control method for regulating the switching frequency of a resonant converter having an input terminal to receive an input voltage and an output terminal to output an output voltage. The control method is sensing the input voltage and adjusting the switching frequency based on the comparison of the input voltage with a reference threshold voltage. When the input voltage is less than the reference threshold voltage, the switching frequency is adjusted to decrease, and when the input voltage is higher than the reference threshold voltage, the switching frequency is adjusted to increase.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control method for regulating a resonant converter having an input terminal to receive an input voltage and an output terminal to output an output voltage, wherein the resonant converter comprises a resonant tank with a characteristic resonant frequency, a switch module having two or more power switches operating at a switching frequency to drive the resonant tank, a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, and a rectifying circuit, and wherein the resonant tank is coupled between the switch module and the primary winding of the transformer, the rectifying circuit is coupled between the secondary winding of the transformer and the output terminal, the switching frequency is at the characteristic resonant frequency or near the characteristic resonant frequency, the control method comprising:
detecting the characteristic resonant frequency of the resonant tank;
sensing the input voltage; and
adjusting the switching frequency based on the comparison of the input voltage with a reference threshold voltage;
wherein when the input voltage is less than the reference threshold voltage, the switching frequency is adjusted to decrease;
and wherein the step of detecting the characteristic resonant frequency of the resonant tank comprises:
providing a test signal to the switch module to control the two or more power switches on or off when the output voltage substantially equals zero volt;
detecting a resonant current passing through the resonant tank and generating a zero current signal based on the resonant current; and
generating a frequency detection signal indicative of the characteristic resonant frequency based on the zero current signal.

2. The control method of claim 1 , wherein the switching frequency is adjusted to decrease from the characteristic resonant frequency.

3. The control method of claim 1 , wherein when the input voltage is higher than the reference threshold voltage, the switching frequency is adjusted to increase.

4. The control method of claim 3 , wherein the step of adjusting the switching frequency based on the comparison of the input voltage with the reference threshold voltage comprises:
when the input voltage is less than the reference threshold voltage, the switching frequency is adjusted to decrease by a decrement, the decrement of the switching frequency is proportional to the difference between the input voltage and the reference threshold voltage; and
when the input voltage is higher than the reference threshold voltage, the switching frequency is adjusted to increase by an increment, the increment of the switching frequency is proportional to the difference between the input voltage and the reference threshold voltage.

5. The control method of claim 3 , wherein the step of adjusting the switching frequency based on the comparison of the input voltage with the reference threshold voltage comprises:
defining a plurality of voltage ranges by respectively setting an upper limit voltage value and a lower limit voltage value for each of the plurality of voltage ranges; and
setting a plurality of frequency variations with each of the plurality of frequency variations corresponding to a respective voltage range of the plurality of voltage ranges;
wherein when the difference between the input voltage and the reference threshold voltage is in a voltage range of the plurality of voltage ranges, adjusting the switching frequency to decrease or increase by the corresponding frequency variation of the voltage range.

Assignees

• Monolithic Power Systems Inc

Inventors

• Jiang Jian
• Han Di

Classifications

• H02M1/0022

  the disturbance parameters being input voltage fluctuations · CPC title

• H02M1/083

  for the ignition at the zero crossing of the voltage or the current · CPC title

• H02M1/0058 Primary

  by employing soft switching techniques, i.e. commutation of transistors when applied voltage is zero or when current flow is zero (using an auxiliary actively switched resonant commutation circuit connected to an intermediate DC voltage or between two push-pull branches of an inverter bridge H02M7/4811; in resonant inverters H02M7/4815; in inverters operating from a resonant DC source H02M7/4826) · CPC title

• H02M1/0016

  Control circuits providing compensation of output voltage deviations using feedforward of disturbance parameters · CPC title

• H02M3/01

  Resonant DC/DC converters · CPC title