Driving circuit of power devices, switching circuit and power conversion circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12149159-B2
Application number	US-202217812173-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 12, 2022
Priority date	Dec 6, 2021
Publication date	Nov 19, 2024
Grant date	Nov 19, 2024

Abstract

The present application provides a driving circuit of power devices, a switching circuit and a power conversion circuit. The driving circuit is configured to control switching actions of N power devices connected in parallel, where N≥2 and N is a positive integer; the driving circuit includes a driving input circuit and a common magnetic bead, where a first end of the driving input circuit is electrically connected to N first ends of the common magnetic bead, N second ends of the common magnetic bead are electrically connected to control ends of the N power devices in a one-to-one correspondence, and a second end of the driving input circuit is electrically connected to second ends of the N power devices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A driving circuit of power devices, wherein the driving circuit is configured to control switching actions of N power devices ( 14 ), wherein N≥2 and Nis a positive integer, each of the power devices ( 14 ) is provided with a first end ( 142 ), a second end ( 143 ) and a control end ( 141 ), first ends of the N power devices are electrically connected to a first node, and second ends of the N power devices are electrically connected to a second node; and the driving circuit comprises:
a driving input circuit ( 15 ), wherein the driving input circuit ( 15 ) is provided with a first end ( 151 ) and a second end ( 152 ); and
a common magnetic bead ( 13 ), wherein the common magnetic bead ( 13 ) is provided with N first ends ( 131 ) and N second ends ( 132 );
wherein a first end ( 151 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ) is electrically connected to the N first ends ( 131 ) of the common magnetic bead ( 13 ), the N second ends ( 132 ) of the common magnetic bead ( 13 ) are electrically connected to control ends ( 141 ) of the N power devices ( 14 ) in a one-to-one correspondence, and the second end ( 152 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ) is electrically connected to second ends of the N power devices;
wherein the common magnetic bead ( 13 ) comprises a magnetic core and N coils;
all the N coils are wound on the magnetic core, and first ends of the N coils are used as the N first ends ( 131 ) of the common magnetic bead ( 13 ), second ends of the N coils are used as the N second ends ( 132 ) of the common magnetic bead ( 13 );
wherein the N coils pass through the magnetic core from the first ends to the second ends in a same winding manner, and ends of the N coils with a same polarity are located on a same side of the magnetic core, and the N coils form a positive magnetic coupling relationship when the driving circuit is working; and
parasitic inductance introduced by the common magnetic bead ( 13 ) is same for the control ends ( 141 ) of the N power devices ( 14 ).

2. The driving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein each of the coils has a same number of turns on the magnetic core, and the coils are formed by a wire or a copper foil on a printed circuit board (PCB).

3. The driving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a power device ( 14 ) comprises a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), a silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (SiC MOSFET), or a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor.

4. The driving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the driving circuit further comprises a transient diode (D), and a first end of the transient diode (D) is electrically connected to the first end ( 151 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ), and a second end of the transient diode (D) is electrically connected to the second end ( 152 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ).

5. The driving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein each of the power devices ( 14 ) further comprises a Kelvin source ( 146 ), and the second end of the driving input circuit is electrically connected to the second ends ( 143 ) of the N power devices through the Kelvin source ( 146 ).

6. The driving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the driving circuit further comprises an impedance circuit, and the impedance circuit is electrically connected between the driving input circuit and the N power devices.

7. The driving circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the impedance circuit comprises N first impedance circuits ( 11 ), and each of the first impedance circuits ( 11 ) is provided with a first end ( 111 ) and a second end ( 112 );
wherein, the first end ( 151 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ) is electrically connected to second ends ( 112 ) of the N first impedance circuits ( 11 ), first ends ( 111 ) of the N first impedance circuits ( 11 ) are electrically connected to the N first ends ( 131 ) of the common magnetic bead ( 13 ) in a one-to-one correspondence, the N second ends ( 132 ) of the common magnetic bead ( 13 ) are used as first driving ends of the driving circuit, for electrically connecting to the control ends ( 141 ) of the N power devices ( 14 ) in a one-to-one correspondence; or
the first end ( 151 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ) is electrically connected to the N first ends ( 131 ) of the common magnetic bead ( 13 ), the N second ends ( 132 ) of the common magnetic bead ( 13 ) are electrically connected to N second ends ( 112 ) of the first impedance circuit ( 11 ) in a one-to-one correspondence, N first ends ( 111 ) of the first impedance circuit ( 11 ) are used as first driving ends of the driving circuit, for electrically connecting to the control ends ( 141 ) of the N power devices ( 14 ) in a one-to-one correspondence.

8. The driving circuit according to claim 7 , wherein the impedance circuit comprises N second impedance circuits ( 12 ), and each of the second impedance circuits ( 12 ) is provided with a first end ( 121 ) and a second end ( 122 );
wherein the second end ( 152 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ) is electrically connected to second ends ( 122 ) of the N second impedance circuits ( 12 ), first ends ( 121 ) of the N second impedance circuits are used as second driving ends of the driving circuit, for electrically connecting to second ends ( 143 ) of the N power devices ( 14 ) in a one-to-one correspondence.

9. The driving circuit according to claim 7 , wherein the N first impedance circuits ( 11 ) have a same circuit structure and a same electrical parameter.

10. The driving circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the impedance circuit comprises N second impedance circuits ( 12 ), and each of the second impedance circuits ( 12 ) is provided with a first end ( 121 ) and a second end ( 122 );
wherein the second end ( 152 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ) is electrically connected to second ends ( 122 ) of the N second impedance circuits ( 12 ), first ends ( 121 ) of the N second impedance circuits are used as second driving ends of the driving circuit, for electrically connecting to second ends ( 143 ) of the N power devices ( 14 ) in a one-to-one correspondence.

11. The driving circuit according to claim 10 , wherein the N second impedance circuits ( 12 ) have a same circuit structure and a same electrical parameter.

12. The driving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the driving input circuit ( 15 ) comprises a power supply;
wherein a first end of the power supply is used as the first end ( 151 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ), and a second end of the power supply is used as the second end ( 152 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ).

13. The driving circuit according to claim 12 , wherein the driving input circuit ( 15 ) further comprises an isolation unit;
wherein an input side of the isolation unit is electrically connected to the power supply, an end of an output side of the isolation unit is used as the first end ( 151 ) of the driving input circuit, and another end of the output side of the isolation unit is used as the second end ( 152 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ).

14. The driving circuit according to claim 13 , wherein the isolation unit comprises: a transformer, an optocoupler isolation unit, or an optical fiber isolation unit;
wherein a primary winding of the transformer is electrically connected to the power supply, a first end of a secondary winding of the transformer is used as the first end ( 151 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ), and a second end of the secondary side of the transformer is used as the second end ( 152 ) of the driving input circuit ( 15 ).

15. The driving circuit according to claim 1

Assignees

• Delta Electronics Shanghai Co

Inventors

• Zhang Yingqi
• Tao Yao
• Wang Baohua

Classifications

• H02M1/088 Primary

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

• H03K17/163

  Soft switching · CPC title

• H03K17/122

  in field-effect transistor switches · CPC title

• H02M1/0064 Primary

  Magnetic structures combining different functions, e.g. storage, filtering or transformation · CPC title

• H02M1/32

  Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection · CPC title