Switching power supply and method for controlling switching power supply

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9923476-B2
Application number	US-201415313974-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2014
Priority date	May 26, 2014
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

A switching power supply and a method for controlling the switching power supply, the switching power supply includes: an input power supply, a front-stage circuit which includes a first inductor and at least two switch devices, and a post-stage isolated circuit which includes a primary-side switch circuit, a transformer and a secondary-side rectification circuit. One end of the first switch device is connected to a positive electrode of the input power supply, one end of the second switch device and an input-end of the first inductor are jointly connected to another end of the first switch device, another end of the second switch device is connected to a negative electrode of the input power supply, an output-end of the first inductor is connected to the primary-side switch circuit of post-stage isolated circuit, and another end of the primary-side switch circuit is connected to another end of the second switch device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A switching power supply, comprising:
an input power supply, a front-stage circuit and a post-stage isolated circuit; wherein,
the front-stage circuit comprises: a first inductor and at least two switch devices—a first switch device and a second switch device; and
the post-stage isolated circuit comprises: a primary-side switch circuit, a transformer and a secondary-side rectification circuit;
wherein, one end of the first switch device is connected to a positive electrode of the input power supply, one end of the second switch device and an input end of the first inductor are jointly connected to another end of the first switch device, another end of the second switch device is connected to a negative electrode of the input power supply, an output end of the first inductor is connected to the primary-side switch circuit of the post-stage isolated circuit, and another end of the primary-side switch circuit is connected to another end of the second switch device,
wherein the primary-side switch circuit comprises at least two switch devices, wherein, switched-on of one switch device or switched-on of a combination switch containing the one switch device makes the first inductor connected to a charging state, switched-off of another switch device or switched-off of a combination switch containing the another switch device makes energy in the first inductor transferred to the secondary-side rectification circuit via the transformer;
the secondary-side rectification circuit comprises at least two switch devices used for performing rectification on the energy transferred by the primary-side switch circuit to form an output voltage of the switching power supply.

2. The switching power supply of claim 1 , wherein,
said switched-on of one switch device or switched-on of a combination switch containing the one switch device makes the first inductor connected to a charging state, in order to connect the output end of the first inductor to a negative end of the input power supply, or connect the output end of the first inductor to the negative end of the input power supply through a primary-side winding.

3. The switching power supply of claim 1 , wherein, in a case that a transformer primary side comprises one winding, and the primary-side switch circuit comprises four switch devices—a third switch device, a fourth switch device, a fifth switch device and a sixth switch device,
one end of the third switch device is connected to the output end of the first inductor, another end of the third switch device is connected to the fourth switch device and a current inflow end of the transformer primary side, another end of the fourth switch device and one end of the fifth switch device and the negative electrode of the input power supply are connected jointly together, another end of the fifth switch device and one end of the sixth switch device and a current outflow end of the transformer primary side are connected jointly together, and another end of the sixth switch device is connected to the output end of the first inductor.

4. The switching power supply of claim 1 , wherein, in a case that a transformer primary side comprises one winding, and the primary-side switch circuit comprises two switch devices—a third switch device and a fourth switch device and a second inductor,
one end of the third switch device is connected to the output end of the first inductor, another end of the third switch device is connected to the output end of the first inductor via the fourth switch device and the second inductor, a junction of the third switch device and the fourth switch device is connected to the negative electrode of the input power supply; the output end of the first inductor is connected to a current inflow end of the transformer primary side, and a current outflow end of the transformer primary side is connected to a junction of the second inductor and the fourth switch device.

5. The switching power supply of claim 1 , wherein, in a case that a transformer primary side comprises two windings, and the primary-side switch circuit comprises two switch devices—a third switch device and a fourth switch device,
one end of the third switch device is connected to a current inflow end of a first winding of the transformer primary side, one end of the fourth switch device is connected to a current outflow end of a second winding of the transformer primary side, a current outflow end of the first winding and a current inflow end of the second winding are jointly connected to the output end of the first inductor, and another end of the third switch device and another end of the fourth switch device are jointly connected to the negative end of the input power supply.

6. The switching power supply of claim 1 , wherein, in a case that a transformer secondary side comprises one winding, and the secondary-side rectification circuit comprises four switch devices—a seventh switch device, an eighth switch device, a ninth switch device and a tenth switch device,
a dotted end of the transformer secondary side corresponding to the current inflow end of the transformer primary side and one end of the seventh switch device and one end of the eighth switch device are connected jointly together, another end of the seventh switch device is connected to another end of the eighth switch device via the ninth switch device and the tenth switch device, a junction of the ninth switch device and the tenth switch device is jointly connected to another end of the dotted end of the transformer secondary side, and another end of the seventh switch device and another end of the eighth switch device serve as an output end of the secondary-side rectification circuit.

7. The switching power supply of claim 1 , wherein, in a case that a transformer secondary side comprises two windings, and the secondary-side rectification circuit comprises two switch devices—a seventh switch device and an eighth switch device,
one end of the seventh switch device is connected to a current inflow end of a first winding of the transformer secondary side, one end of the eighth switch device is connected to a current outflow end of a second winding of the transformer secondary side, a current outflow end of the first winding and a current inflow end of the second winding jointly serve as one output end of the secondary-side rectification circuit, another end of the seventh switch device and another end of the eighth switch device are connected and jointly serve as another output end of the secondary-side rectification circuit, so that the one output end of the secondary-side rectification circuit and the another output end form an output end of the secondary-side rectification circuit.

8. The switching power supply of claim 1 , wherein, the switch devices at least comprise one of the following: a triode, an MOS transistor and a diode.

9. A method for controlling a switching power supply, used for controlling a switching power supply comprising an input power supply, a front-stage circuit and a post-stage isolated circuit, wherein,
the front-stage circuit comprises: a first inductor and at least two switch devices—a first switch device and a second switch device; and
the post-stage isolated circuit comprises: a primary-side switch circuit, a transformer and a secondary-side rectification circuit;
wherein, one end of the first switch device is connected to a positive electrode of the input power supply, one end of the second switch device and an input end of the first inductor are jointly connected to another end of the first switch device, another end of the second switch device is connected to a negative electrode of the input power supply, an output end of the first inductor is connected to t

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Wang Linguo

Classifications

• H02M3/33576 Primary

  having at least one active switching element at the secondary side of an isolation transformer · CPC title

• H02M3/33592 Primary

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

• H02M3/33523

  with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop · CPC title

• H02M3/33584

  Bidirectional converters · CPC title

• H02M1/007

  Plural converter units in cascade (push-pull DC/DC converters with pre-regulator H02M3/3374; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC stage including a high frequency transformer H02M7/4807; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC conversion stage generating periodically varying voltages H02M7/4826) · CPC title