Power converting circuit and hysteresis buck converter with changing response characteristic based on transient state of output voltage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9768695-B2
Application number	US-201615132469-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 19, 2016
Priority date	May 12, 2015
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

A power converting circuit includes a voltage converting circuit, a feedback circuit, a driving signal generator, a transient state detector, and a resistance value adjuster. The voltage converting circuit changes a voltage level of an input voltage responsive to a driving signal, and outputs an output voltage according to the changed voltage level of the input voltage. The feedback circuit divides the output voltage to output the divided output voltage as a feedback voltage. The driving signal generator compares a level of the feedback voltage with a level of a reference voltage and outputs the driving signal. The transient state detector compares the level of the feedback voltage with the level of the reference voltage and outputs a transient state signal corresponding to a transient state of the output voltage. The resistance value adjuster adjusts the feedback resistance value, which divides the output voltage, responsive to the transient state signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power converting circuit comprising:
a voltage converting circuit configured to change a voltage level of an input voltage in response to a driving signal and to output an output voltage according to the changed voltage level of the input voltage;
a feedback circuit configured to divide the output voltage and to output the divided output voltage as a feedback voltage;
a driving signal generator configured to compare a level of the feedback voltage with a level of a reference voltage and to output the driving signal;
a transient state detector configured to compare the level of the feedback voltage with the level of the reference voltage and to output a transient state signal corresponding to a transient state of the output voltage; and
a resistance value adjuster configured to change a feedback resistance value of the feedback circuit in response to the transient state signal,
wherein the feedback circuit is configured to divide the output voltage by the feedback resistance value.

2. The power converting circuit of claim 1 , wherein the driving signal comprises first and second driving signals, and the voltage converting circuit comprises:
a first transistor configured to transfer the input voltage provided to a first end of the first transistor to a second end of the first transistor in response to the first driving signal;
a second transistor configured to transfer a ground voltage at a first end of the second transistor to a second end of the second transistor in response to the second driving signal;
an inductor connected between the second end of the first transistor and an output node; and
a capacitor connected between the output node and a ground node,
wherein the voltage converting circuit is configured to output the output voltage to the output node.

3. The power converting circuit of claim 2 , wherein the first transistor and the second transistor are sequentially turned on in response to the first driving signal and the second driving signal, respectively.

4. The power converting circuit of claim 2 , wherein the driving signal generator comprises:
a hysteresis comparator configured to compare the level of the feedback voltage with the level of the reference voltage and to output a comparison signal; and
a gate controller configured to output the first driving signal and the second driving signal to a gate of the first transistor and a gate of the second transistor respectively in response to the comparison signal.

5. The power converting circuit of claim 2 , wherein the feedback circuit comprises:
a first feedback resistor connected between the output node and a feedback voltage node, and configured to output the feedback voltage via the feedback voltage node; and
a second feedback resistor connected between the feedback voltage node and the ground node.

6. The power converting circuit of claim 5 , wherein the feedback voltage node is connected to the resistance value adjuster.

7. The power converting circuit of claim 1 , wherein the transient state signal comprises first and second transient state signals, and the transient state detector comprises:
a state comparator configured to compare the level of the feedback voltage with the level of the reference voltage, and output the first transient state signal and the second transient state signal, and
wherein the state comparator is configured to output the first transient state signal during a first section from a first time point at which a level difference between the feedback voltage and the reference voltage is greater than a threshold voltage of the state comparator, to a second time point at which a level difference between the feedback voltage and the reference voltage is less than the threshold voltage of the state comparator, and to output the second transient state signal during a second section other than the first section.

8. The power converting circuit of claim 7 , wherein logic states of the first and second transient state signals are complementary to each other.

9. The power converting circuit of claim 7 , wherein the resistance value adjuster is configured to change the feedback resistance value from a first value to a second value responsive to the first transient state signal, and to change the feedback resistance value from the second value to the first value responsive to the second transient state signal.

10. The power converting circuit of claim 9 , wherein the second value is less than the first value.

11. A hysteresis buck converter, comprising:
a feedback circuit configured to divide an output voltage and to output the divided output voltage as a feedback voltage;
a hysteresis comparator configured to compare a level of the feedback voltage with a level of a reference voltage and to output a comparison signal;
a voltage converting circuit configured to pull up or down an input voltage based on the comparison signal and to output the pulled-up or pulled-down voltage as the output voltage; and
a resistance value control circuit configured to change a feedback resistance value of the feedback circuit based on a transient state of the feedback voltage,
wherein the feedback circuit is configured to divide the output voltage by the feedback resistance value, and
wherein the resistance value control circuit is configured to decrease the feedback resistance value during a rising transient section of the feedback voltage.

12. The hysteresis buck converter of claim 11 , wherein the resistance value control circuit comprises:
a state comparator configured to compare the level of the feedback voltage with the level of the reference voltage and to output a transient state signal including information corresponding to the transient state of the feedback voltage; and
a resistance value adjuster configured to change the feedback resistance value in response to the transient state signal.

13. The hysteresis buck converter of claim 12 , wherein the transient state signal comprises first and second transient state signals, and
the state comparator is configured to output the first transient state signal during a first section from a first time point at which a level difference between the feedback voltage and the reference voltage is greater than a threshold voltage of the state comparator, to a second time point at which a level difference between the feedback voltage and the reference voltage is less than the threshold voltage of the state comparator, and to output the second transient state signal during a second section other than the first section.

14. The hysteresis buck converter of claim 13 , wherein the resistance value adjuster decreases the feedback resistance value in response to the first transient state signal.

15. The hysteresis buck converter of claim 14 , wherein the resistance value adjuster is configured to adjust the decreased feedback resistance value to the feedback resistance value before decreasing in response to the second transient state signal.

16. A power converting circuit comprising:
a voltage converting circuit configured to output an output voltage based on an input voltage and a driving signal;
a feedback circuit configured to divide the output voltage and to output the divided output voltage as a feedback voltage;
a ripple voltage injection circuit configured to inject a ripple voltage to a feedback node outputting the feedback voltage to provide a ripple injected feedback voltage;
a driving signal generator configured to compare a level of the ripple injected feedback voltage with a level of a reference voltage and to output the drivin

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nomiyama Takahiro
• Sohn Ilyoung
• Lee Suho
• Cho Minsoo
• Han Jaeyeol

Classifications

• H02M3/158 Primary

  including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load · CPC title

• H02M2001/0025

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02M2003/1566

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H03K5/24

  the characteristic being amplitude · CPC title

• H02M3/1566

  with means for compensating against rapid load changes, e.g. with auxiliary current source, with dual mode control or with inductance variation · CPC title