Background technology
For powering to the control circuit of line powering switchover power converter, LVPS need to be used,
Its voltage when several milliampere electric current typically at 3V to 12V between.But, until power
Transducer runs, and the sole source that typical case can use is exchange (AC) electric lines of force.Merit in resistor
Consumption, typically in several wattage magnitudes, thus can not pass through resistance in high-tension AC electric lines of force
Voltage is down to the voltage of controller requirement by device.
Accordingly, because use auxiliary winding can produce low voltage, on one of transducer magnetics
Auxiliary winding be frequently utilized for converter controller integrated circuit (integrated circuit, IC) supply
Electricity, thus can reduce dissipated power.Accessory power supply can be run from the first order, but supply at AC circuit
In electricity cascaded inverters, the induction apparatus/transformer current of the first order can change with input voltage.?
One-level is in the cascaded inverters of power factor corrector (power factor corrector, PFC), defeated
Enter electric current to change by proportional relationship with input voltage.Circuit input be rectified and filtered other
In cascaded inverters, unless wave filter is respectively provided with low pulsation thus phase under all loading conditions
When greatly, sizable AC being occurred to change in input the most under high loading conditions.Therefore,
In this type of application, it is desirable on one of magnet assembly that auxiliary winding is placed in the second level.In cascade
In power converter, usually until just start second when the output voltage of the first order has reached certain level
Level, to guarantee the properly functioning of the second level.Therefore, when typically starting at least up to the second level, just stop
Only use the resistor voltage fall electric source structure generally using Zener diode regulation output voltage, thus
Aggregate efficiency can be reduced and improve the temperature produced by power supply.
By DC-to-dc (DC-DC) converter level that can receive its input from first order PFC
To the second level, accessory power supply is powered, and the output voltage of this second level accessory power supply still turns with DC-DC
The intermediate node voltage change of parallel operation input, this intermediate node voltage can be with PFC input
The size variation of AC power voltage line.It is enough to be used in for guaranteeing to be respectively provided with under the conditions of all input lines
The voltage of operation controller integrated circuit, the highest accessory power supply output voltage will be minimum
Require output voltage.Therefore, or must by IC design become can be used for FR can be by auxiliary
Help the supply voltage that winding provides, or such as Zener diode circuit regulation voltage must be used, by
This dissipated power and heat and typically reduce reliability.
Accordingly, it is desired to provide a kind of concatenated power transducer, this concatenated power transducer can internally be controlled
Device circuit processed provides a kind of auxiliary electricity that can run from second (or rear) level of concatenated power transducer
Source.It also would be desirable to provide this accessory power supply that can run under widely varied auxiliary winding voltage,
And without Zener diode or other consume formula regulation technologies.
Detailed description of the invention
The present invention includes the auxiliary power circuit in cascaded inverters and to cascade power switched conversion
The method that control in device and/or other circuit are powered, wherein from the of cascade switchover power converter
Two (or rear) level provides accessory power supply.Concatenated power transducer can be that rear portion has DC-DC to turn
The power factor corrector (power factor corrector, PFC) of parallel operation level.In cascaded inverters
Second (or rear) level has transfers pattern.Transfers pattern can provide enough energy
Charging to the output of accessory power supply, this can enter at the auxiliary winding of one of the magnet assembly of the second level
OK.Transfers pattern generally has low than switching rate and the pulse width of the properly functioning middle second level
Switching rate much and relatively low pulse width, so that do not disturb during transfers operational mode
The load being connected with the output of cascaded inverters, or not to this load supplying.
There is the auxiliary power circuit of optional operational mode for changing the distinctive output of accessory power supply/defeated
Enter voltage, to compensate the change of second level input voltage.Such as, before PFC input stage is run,
Input voltage peak can be obtained between the intermediate node two level interconnected, and can obtain after the first order is run
Peak-to-peak voltage, thus makes the voltage obtained by auxiliary winding that the change of 2: 1 occurs.Accessory power supply
Operational mode can be used for compensating this change and other changes, and can run in lag feedback structure,
Selectable modes in this configuration, to regulate accessory power supply output voltage.
Fig. 1 shows the cascade switchover power converter 8 described in the embodiment of the present invention.Switch controller
10 provide control signal, to control first order PFC14 and second level dc-dc 15
In the switching device that connected by intermediate node.Capacitor CLINKKeep intermediate node voltage, electric capacity
Device CRECTThe input voltage provided to PFC14 from commutator 12, this commutator 12 are provided
By electromagnetic interference (electromagnetic interference, EMI) wave filter 11 and AC electricity
Line of force source 17 couples.In illumination applications, the output of dc-dc 15 is in listed enforcement
For powering to LED in example.But, the technology of the present invention can be in other be applied
In concatenated power transducer and the cascade construction in addition to PFC/DC-DC.
Dc-dc 15 includes accessory power supply 16, and this accessory power supply 16 is to controller 10
The electric power run needed for internal circuit is provided, and operation PFC14 and dc-dc are provided
Door needed for switching device in 15 drives electric current.Resistor R can be passed throughS1With resistor RS2Obtain
Obtain electric power, until accessory power supply 16 can produce at least some circuit being enough in operation controller 10
Voltage.Can be from the auxiliary winding provided by the magnetic couplings element of dc-dc 15
Aux runs accessory power supply 16.Therefore, after dc-dc 15 has started to switching, auxiliary
Winding aux is helped only to produce output voltage VAUX.Operation with cascade switchover power converter 8 is suitable
Sequence is similar to, and the conventional operation order of typical case's cascaded inverters is as follows: once capacitor CRECTBetween two
Voltage reach predetermined threshold voltage, begin to run PFC14;Then, at capacitor CLINKTwo
Between voltage VLINK(by voltage V after having reached steady-state valueLINKReach another predetermined threshold voltage
Instruction), bring into operation dc-dc 15.But, according to embodiments of the invention, cascade
Switchover power converter 8 provides a kind of transfers pattern, runs at PFC14 in this mode
While or optional before, dc-dc 15 can be started.
Fig. 2 shows the details of Fig. 1 cascade switchover power converter 8.Induction apparatus L1 and cutting
Changing transistor N1 and provide boosting structure PFC, this boosting structure PFC can be by capacitor CLINK
Charge to the voltage of about 400VDC, thus at capacitor CRECTTwo between formed 360VDC
Input voltage.The door of transistor N1 is controlled by controller 10, so that PFC14
Input impedance is generally without idle component, i.e. PFC14 is rendered as AC electric power line source 17 liang
Between resistance.Before starting, owing to diode D1 is used as peak detector, at AC electric power
Behind first input peak of line source 17, at capacitor CLINKTwo between rectification type AC electric power occurs
The peak pressure of line source 17.Controller 10 can run dc-dc under transfers pattern
15, and seldom switch and there is burst pulse, to produce accessory power supply output voltage VAUX, as hereafter
Described.
Dc-dc 15 is a kind of push-pull type forward converter, and it is the two of transformator T1
Switching transistor N2 and N3 successively between the two of decile armature winding, produces two pole power waveforms.?
At the secondary windings of transformator T1, two pole power waveforms are carried out whole by diode D2 and D3
Stream, and combined capacitor C by induction apparatus L2OUTIt is filtered.As it has been described above, transformation
Device T1 also powers to auxiliary winding aux.Resistor RISPressure is provided to switch controller 10
Fall.Resistor RISPressure drop between two and the electric current switched by transistor N2 or transistor N3
Proportional, current-mode feedback is thus provided, the electric current that instruction is applied by load, such as in Fig. 1
LED.
In an operation example, before switching any switching transistor N1-N3, due to at electricity
The rectified signal occurred between the two of container CRECT carries out blob detection, at capacitor CLINKTwo between
The voltage (peak pressure of typical case's AC electric power line source) of about 160VDC can be obtained.Upon resistance
Device RS1With resistor RS2The voltage obtained be enough to operation controller, and that controller is initial
Changing, controller 10 begins to run PFC14, to boost and to regulate at capacitor CLINKBetween two
Voltage.Controller 10 also begins to switch with the very low-repetition-frequency of such as 20kHz in a short time
Transistor N2 and N3 in dc-dc 15;Although this is not enough in a short time
A large amount of electric current (e.g., less than the 5% of nominal current) is provided to pass through LED, but
The electric current that can provide enough passes through the auxiliary winding aux of transformator T1, defeated to produce accessory power supply
Go out voltage VAUX.Due to low rate switching transistor N2 and N3, the electricity of accessory power supply 16
Stream requires also below the requirement during the conventional handover operation of dc-dc 15.Once electricity
Pressure VLINKThe most fully raising, dc-dc 15 is just placed in conventional fortune by controller 10
Row mode.Owing to starting the output just multiplication of switching, PFC15 once transistor N1, thus one
Denier voltage VLINKHaving risen to its full voltage value, the voltage available between auxiliary winding aux two is the most about
For the twice of voltage during starting transfers pattern.According to the pattern choosing provided by controller 10
Select signal mode, or by the internal detection of model selection condition hereinafter described, now can change auxiliary
The operational mode of power supply 16.
Although aforesaid operations order is used for starting, in the application of the most described LED illumination application,
When LED completely closes (this can be carried out according to duty cycle in dimmed period),
Or when 100% is dimmed, output can be disabled by stopping switching dc-dc 15, and
PFC14 continues regulation voltage VLINK.Therefore, for the output of accessory power supply 16 is maintained electricity
Pressure VAUX, the transfers pattern of dc-dc 15 can be again introduced into, and by luminescence
A small amount of electric current that diode (LED) produces will not interfere with dimmed operation.
Assume to flow to controller 10 before PFC14 starts and after PFC14 starts
Voltage be identical, starting or leave dimmed pattern and return after routine operation, if auxiliary
Power supply 16 only includes the linear regulating circuit of such as Zener diode, the then merit in accessory power supply 16
Consumption is by about identical with the power flowing to controller 10.Therefore, the accessory power supply in described embodiment
16 include the doubler with above-mentioned optional operational mode.Accessory power supply 16 is under an operational mode
The size of the DC output produced is essentially equal to available peak-to-peak voltage between auxiliary winding aux two
Half, under another operational mode produce DC output size be essentially equal to auxiliary around
The meansigma methods of group two voltage available peak values of aux.Under two kinds of operational modes, by circuit pressure drop
The virtual voltage exporting applying at accessory power supply 16 can be reduced.During starting and in control
Before device 10 starts the conventional operation of dc-dc 15, can be by controller by using
The 10 control signal patterns providing or can determining in accessory power supply 16, can be by accessory power supply 16
It is placed under multiplexer pattern, as mentioned below.At PFC14 boosting capacitor CLINKBetween two
Voltage available after, accessory power supply 16 or be placed under non-multiplexer pattern, or in delayed regulation
Run under pattern, as mentioned below.
Fig. 3 shows the details of the accessory power supply 16 described in the embodiment of the present invention.Accessory power supply 16
Input be connected with the auxiliary winding aux of transformator T1.Owing to diode D14 will keep anti-
To biasing and diode D11 short circuit, capacitor C1 will assist winding aux and auxiliary electricity
The input in source 16 carries out AC coupling, with by starting the first fortune that transistor N10 selects
Diode D11 and D14 is effectively removed under row mode.In the first operating mode, accessory power supply electricity
Road 16 is used as voltage-multiplier circuit.
Negative under the multiplexer operational mode of accessory power supply 16, between auxiliary winding aux two
During voltage, diode D13 turn on, and capacitor C1 to auxiliary winding aux two between can
Charge with voltage negative peak, thus reduce the pressure drop of diode D13, and diode D12 is in this phase
Period is reverse biased.During next between auxiliary winding aux two can use positive phase voltage, two poles
Pipe D13 is reverse biased, and diode D12 conducting.At auxiliary winding aux during positive
Voltage between two is added with voltage on the capacitor cl during front negative, causes " voltage phase
Add " phenomenon.The voltage-multiplier circuit realized by accessory power supply 16 in the first operating mode is generally claimed
For doubler;This is real in the application, because the push-pull type of transistor N2 and N3
Run and make to assist the voltage negative between winding aux two and positive pulse substantially equal.
Under the second operational mode of accessory power supply 16, transistor N10 is deactivated, and diode
D11-D14 is used as full wave bridge rectifier, and this commutator is to the available AC between auxiliary winding aux two
Coupled voltages (E such as the coupling carried out by capacitor C1) carries out rectification.Due to auxiliary winding
Aux is AC coupling, diode D11-D14 the DC between the input of the bridge commutator formed
Current potential can with non-zero, and assume may occur in which between the two of capacitor C1 auxiliary winding aux two between can
Poor with the positive and negative peak of voltage.Therefore, diode D11-D14 the output of the bridge commutator formed
Can provide positive and negative peak pressure, this bridge commutator provides the defeated of accessory power supply 16 in the second operating mode
Go out, and this output is theoretically the half of the voltage produced in the first operating mode;But due to two poles
Pipe and other circuit pressure drops, two output voltages will differ from above-mentioned output voltage.
As it has been described above, after PFC14 runs or when dc-dc 15 enters routine
During operational mode, controller 10 can signal to accessory power supply 16, with away from doubler mould
Formula.Optional both operational modes of accessory power supply 16 are combined formation actuator.In Fig. 3
Accessory power supply 16 illustrate this kind of actuator.By comparing accessory power supply output voltage VAUX
With threshold voltage VTH, the hysteresis comparator K1 in control circuit 24 can control transistor
The door of N10, and generally by this threshold voltage VTHIt is set as running with second in the first operational mode
The accessory power supply output voltage V of patternAUXBetween any voltage.By defeated according to accessory power supply
Go out voltage VAUXSize control accessory power supply operational mode, described operation can be by accessory power supply
Output voltage VAUXIt is adjusted to aspiration level.
Fig. 4 explanation starts or the operation conditions of dc-dc 15 during dimmed pattern.
Start moment TABefore, voltage VLINKRise to the peak pressure of input line, and do not start switching
Operation.At moment TAWith TBBetween, the transfers pattern of dc-dc 15 is by narrow
And few pulse (such as occurring the pulse of 2.5 μ s every 50 μ s) is to output voltage VAUXFill
Electricity.At moment TBAfterwards, start regular run mode, wherein cut with normal switching rate
Change, such as, carry out every 10 μ s.Same at moment TAWith TBBetween, due to PFC14's
Run, voltage VLINKRaise.
Fig. 5 shows the accessory power supply 16 operation conditions when starting in delayed regulation.Signal mode
Formula shows the door state of transistor N10.At moment T0With moment TABetween, by supply voltage
VDDHThe required drive of the switch controller 10 represented is by resistor RS1And resistor
RS2There is provided, and the output voltage V of accessory power supplyAUXIt is shown as zero.In reality is implemented, auxiliary
Helping power supply to export can not be with resistor RS1With resistor RS2Separate, and such as voltage VDDHShown in
Can increase.From moment TATo moment TB, when the transfers of dc-dc 15 runs
When the capacitor C2 of the output at accessory power supply 16 is charged by the pulse of pattern, accessory power supply 16
It is maintained under first " multiplexer " operational mode, and accessory power supply output voltage VAUXRise step by step
High.At moment TBTime, output voltage VAUXReach threshold voltage VTHPlus comparator K1
Lagging voltage, i.e. maximum voltage Vmax;And the output of hysteresis comparator K1 changes, with
Select the full-wave bridge operational mode of accessory power supply 16.Output voltage VAUXReduce, until the moment
Threshold voltage V is reached during TcTHVoltage deduct the lagging voltage of comparator K1, i.e. minimum electricity
Pressure Vmin;And the output of hysteresis comparator K1 changes, again to select accessory power supply 16
Multiplication operational mode.
Fig. 6 shows the details of the accessory power supply 16A described in alternative embodiment of the present invention, this auxiliary
Power supply 16A is optional for implementing the accessory power supply 16 in Fig. 1.Accessory power supply 16A and Fig. 3
In accessory power supply 16 be similar to, the difference that the most hereafter will only describe between them.At accessory power supply
In 16A, do not use by comparing output voltage VAUXWith threshold voltage VTHAnd the control obtained
Signal mode, but by using comparator K2 to compare link voltage VLINKWith another threshold value electricity
Pressure VTH2, determine the size of link voltage;Under this link voltage, can be by controlling control signal
The state of pattern, interrupts doubling of the output voltage to auxiliary winding aux.Threshold voltage VTH2Can
To be the same threshold voltage for determining the transfers pattern selecting dc-dc 15;
And comparator K2 could be for selecting the phase of transfers pattern on year-on-year basis together with control signal pattern
Relatively device and control signal;Or for selecting the transfers pattern of dc-dc 15 and auxiliary
The threshold voltage and the control signal that help the multiplication of voltage action of power supply 16A can be to separate.
Although having combined preferred embodiment to be particularly shown and illustrate the present invention, those skilled in the art can
It is understood by the spirit and scope without departing from the present invention, can obtain above-mentioned and other are in shape
Change in terms of formula and details.