Current balance circuit of resonant type switching power-supply circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9356519-B2
Application number	US-201414178446-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2014
Priority date	Feb 12, 2014
Publication date	May 31, 2016
Grant date	May 31, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a switching power-supply device capable of balancing a plurality of converter blocks operated in parallel. The switching power-supply device includes a first series circuit of first and second switching elements, a second series circuit of third and fourth switching elements, which circuits are connected in parallel with a power supply, and a control circuit that turns on-and-off the first and second switching elements, alternately, with an arbitrary frequency and turns on-and-off the third and fourth switching elements, alternately, with the same frequency as the arbitrary frequency. The control circuit controls a phase difference of switching signals of the first and second series circuits.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A switching power-supply device comprising:
a plurality of converter blocks connected in parallel and each of which includes:
a series resonance circuit comprising: a transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil that is magnetically coupled with the primary coil; a first series circuit including a first switching element and a second switching element, a capacitor that is connected to one end of the second switching element, and the primary coil that is connected between the capacitor and an other end of the second switching element, and
a rectification circuit connected to a secondary coil,
wherein the first series circuit being connected in parallel with a direct-current power supply,

a smoothing circuit to which the rectification circuit of each of the converter blocks is connected;
a control unit that controls a switching operation of the first series circuit of alternately turning on-and-off the first switching element and the second switching element with dead time in which the first switching element and the second switching element are turned off, for each of the converter blocks; and
a current detection unit that detects currents flowing in each of the converter blocks,
wherein at least one of the converter blocks further comprises: a second series circuit including a third switching element and a fourth switching element connected to the direct-current power supply; and a reactor that is connected between a connection point of the third switching element and the fourth switching element and a primary coil-side terminal of the capacitor, and
wherein, for each of the converter blocks having the second series circuit and the reactor, the control unit:
performs controlling of a switching operation of the second series circuit of turning on-and-off the third switching element and the fourth switching element, alternately, with dead time in which the third switching element and the fourth switching element are turned off, to a frequency of switching operation of the first series circuit; and
controls a phase difference between the switching operation of the first series circuit and the switching operation of the second series circuit, based on a difference between current flowing in the converter block, which is detected by the current detection unit, and current flowing in another converter block, so that a voltage of the capacitor is adjusted to adjust the current flowing in respective converter blocks,
wherein, for each of the converter blocks having the second series circuit and the reactor, the control unit:
increases the phase difference between the switching operation of the first series circuit and the switching operation of the second series circuit when the current flowing in the converter block, which is detected by the current detection unit, is larger than the current flowing in another converter block; and
decreases the phase difference between the switching operation of the first series circuit and the switching operation of the second series circuit when the current flowing in the converter block, which is detected by the current detection unit, is smaller than the current flowing in another converter block.

2. The switching power-supply device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the current detection unit detects current that flows through the secondary coil of the transformer of each of the converter blocks.

3. The switching power-supply device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the current detection unit detects current that flows through the primary coil of the transformer of each of the converter blocks.

4. The switching power-supply device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit make the first series circuits of each of the converter blocks perform a switching operation with different phases.

Assignees

• Sanken Electric Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kyono Yoichi

Classifications

• H02M2001/0048

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02B70/1491

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H02M3/3376

  with automatic control of output voltage or current · CPC title

• H02M3/285 Primary

  Single converters with a plurality of output stages connected in parallel (parallel operation of a plurality of converters in DC distribution networks H02J1/10) · CPC title

• H02M1/0048

  Circuits or arrangements for reducing losses (using snubbers H02M1/34) · CPC title