JP2015139321A - Reference voltage output circuit and power supply device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reference voltage output circuit and a power supply device capable of eliminating the need for process for absorbing variation.SOLUTION: A reference voltage output circuit C4, for outputting a reference voltage for feedback controlled power supply circuits C1 and C2, includes a shunt regulator 17 connected to an output end at which a cathode terminal outputs the reference voltage, a resistor array 20 having a plurality of taps, a wiper W to be connected to either one of the plurality of taps, and a digital potentiometer 19 having a wiper control part 21 for controlling the connection position of the wiper W according to a command signal inputted externally. The cathode terminal of the shunt regulator 17 is connected to one end A of the resistor array 20, an anode terminal of the shunt regulator 17 is connected to the other end B of the resistor array 20, and a reference terminal of the shunt regulator 17 is connected to one of the plurality of taps through the wiper W.

Description

  The present invention relates to a reference voltage output circuit that outputs a reference voltage to a power supply circuit that performs feedback control, and a power supply device including the reference voltage output circuit, and in particular, a reference voltage output circuit that can be mounted on an electric vehicle such as an electric vehicle. And a power supply device.

  As a power supply device that can be mounted on an electric vehicle such as an electric vehicle, for example, a DC / DC converter described in Patent Document 1 is known. This power supply device (DC / DC converter) supplies an output voltage to a storage battery mounted on a vehicle. A full-bridge type DC / DC converter circuit having four switching elements, and DC / DC by feedback control. A switching control circuit that controls a switching element of the converter circuit, a voltage dividing resistor circuit that generates a feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage, and a direction toward the voltage dividing resistor circuit between the DC / DC converter circuit and the voltage dividing resistor circuit And a voltage control diode provided so as to be in the forward direction. Since the forward voltage of the voltage control diode decreases with an increase in temperature and increases with a decrease in temperature, the output voltage input to the voltage dividing resistor circuit changes by the temperature characteristic of the voltage control diode. On the other hand, the switching control circuit performs feedback control so that the voltage value of the feedback voltage obtained by feeding back the output voltage becomes constant. Therefore, in this power supply device, the output voltage supplied to the storage battery changes by the temperature characteristic of the voltage control diode, and appropriate output voltage control according to the temperature state of the storage battery becomes possible.

  As another power supply device that can be mounted on an electric vehicle, for example, a DC / DC converter shown in FIG. 2 is known. As shown in the figure, this power supply device (DC / DC converter) includes a full-bridge type DC / DC converter circuit C1, a switching control circuit C2, a feedback voltage output circuit C3 ′, and a reference voltage output circuit C4 ′. And. This power supply apparatus steps down an input voltage input from an assembled battery (high voltage battery) 1 in which a plurality of storage battery cells are connected in series by a DC / DC converter circuit C1 and outputs the resulting voltage to an auxiliary battery (low voltage battery) 11. To do.

  The DC / DC converter circuit C1 includes an inverter unit composed of four switching elements (for example, MOS-FETs) 2, 3, 4, and 5 each having a diode connected in antiparallel, and a transformer 6 having a primary side connected to the inverter unit. And a rectifying / smoothing unit including two diodes 7, 8, a choke coil 9 and a smoothing capacitor 10 connected to the secondary side of the transformer 6.

  The switching control circuit C2 outputs the voltage corresponding to the difference between the feedback voltage input to the feedback voltage input terminal FB and the reference voltage input to the reference voltage input terminal REF, and is output from the error amplifier 12. The PWM signal generation unit 13 that generates a PWM signal so that the difference between the feedback voltage and the reference voltage becomes zero based on the measured voltage, and the switching elements 2 and 3 based on the PWM signal generated by the PWM signal generation unit 13 4 and 5 is provided.

In general, in a power supply device mounted on an electric vehicle, (1) the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage can be changed according to a command signal from a microcomputer (for example, a vehicle ECU) 22, and (2) a charging target It is required that the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage can be automatically changed according to the characteristic of the battery 11 (for example, the characteristic that the charging voltage changes depending on the charging time). In order to satisfy these requirements, in this power supply apparatus, a digital potentiometer 19 having a communication function and resistors 15 and 16 connected in series constitute a feedback voltage output circuit C3 ′.

  The digital potentiometer 19 includes a resistor array 20 having a plurality of taps, a wiper W connected to any of the plurality of taps, and a wiper that electronically controls the connection position of the wiper W according to a command signal input from the microcomputer 22. It has the control part 21. The digital potentiometer 19 is configured as a single IC as a whole, and unlike the analog potentiometer, the connection position of the wiper W is not changed by a mechanical operation, and thus has a feature that it has a long life and high reliability.

The resistor array 20 is connected in series to the resistors 15 and 16 and constitutes a voltage dividing resistor circuit together with the resistors 15 and 16. The voltage dividing points of the resistors 15 and 16 are connected to the feedback voltage input terminal FB of the switching control circuit C2. As shown in FIG. 3, the resistor array 20 includes a plurality of resistors R _{1 to} R _n connected in series. A plurality of taps provided at both ends of each of the resistors R _{1 to} R _n are connected to the wiper W through a semiconductor switch such as a transistor. The wiper control unit 21 performs on / off control of the semiconductor switch. Hereinafter, the resistance value (full-scale resistance value) between one end A and the other end B of the resistor array 20 is R _AB , the resistance value between one end A and the wiper W is R _AW , and the other end B And the resistance value between the wiper W and the wiper W is R _BW . In the case of the 8-bit digital potentiometer 19 having 256 semiconductor switches and 255 resistors R _{1 to} R ₂₅₅ , the variable resistance value per step is R _AB / 256 [Ω]. When the number (Steps) is 100 Steps, R _BW = R _AB × 100/256 [Ω] and R _AW = R _AB × (256-100) / 256 [Ω].

  The wiper control unit 21 includes a control circuit 21a, a nonvolatile memory 21b, an up / down counter 21c, and a decoder 21d. In the wiper control unit 21, the up / down counter 21c increases / decreases the counter value in response to a command signal (for example, an up / down signal, a clock signal, a chip select signal) input from the microcomputer 22, and the decoder 21d And the corresponding semiconductor switch is turned on. The counter value of the up / down counter 21c is written into the nonvolatile memory 21b by the control circuit 21a.

Referring to FIG. 2 again, the reference voltage output circuit C4 ′ includes a shunt regulator 17, a resistor 18, and voltage dividing resistor circuits 24 and 25. The voltage dividing resistor circuits 24 and 25 have one end connected to the cathode terminal of the shunt regulator 17 and the other end connected to the anode terminal of the shunt regulator 17. The shunt regulator 17 has a cathode terminal connected to a reference voltage input terminal REF of the switching control circuit C2, and is connected to a 15V external power source (DC voltage source) via a resistor 18, and an anode terminal to a reference potential (GND). The reference terminals are connected to the voltage dividing points of the voltage dividing resistor circuits 24 and 25. The shunt regulator 17 controls the current flowing between the cathode terminal and the anode terminal so that the voltage value at the voltage dividing point of the voltage dividing resistor circuits 24 and 25 matches the preset internal reference voltage value V _ref . For this reason, the reference voltage output circuit C4 ′ can output a constant reference voltage.

となる。 In this power supply device, the voltage value V _OUT of the output voltage of the DC / DC converter circuit C1 includes the voltage value V _{REF of the} reference voltage output from the reference voltage output circuit C4 ′, the resistance value R ₁₅ of the resistor _15, and the resistance 16 resistance values R ₁₆ and a resistance value R _BW between the other end B of the resistor array 20 constituting the digital potentiometer 19 and the wiper W. That is, the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage of the DC / DC converter circuit C1 is

It becomes.

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となる。 By the way, the voltage value V _REF of the reference voltage output from the reference voltage output circuit C4 ′ includes the internal reference voltage value V _ref of the shunt regulator 17, the resistance value R ₂₄ of the resistor _24, and the resistance value R ₂₅ of the resistor ₂₅ . It is represented by That is, the voltage value V _REF of the reference voltage is

It becomes.

となる。 Further, from the above equations (1) and (2), the voltage value V _OUT of the output voltage of the DC / DC converter circuit C1 is

It becomes.

As can be seen from the above equation (3), the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage of the DC / DC converter circuit C1 is equal to the resistance values R ₁₅ and R _{16 of} the resistors 15 and 16 constituting the feedback voltage output circuit C3 ′ and the digital potentiometer. 19 variations (variations in the resistance value R _BW of the resistor array 20), the resistance values R ₂₄ and R _{25 of the} voltage dividing resistor circuits 24 and 25 constituting the reference voltage output circuit C4 ′, and the internal reference voltage value of the shunt regulator 17 Influenced by V _ref variation. In particular, the digital potentiometer 19 generally has a very large variation of the resistance value R _AB of the resistor array 20 of about ± 20%. In addition, in the conventional power supply device, the voltage value of the feedback voltage is determined according to the voltage dividing ratio between the resistance value R ₁₅ and the resistance value (R ₁₆ + R _BW ). For these reasons, in order to increase the accuracy of the output voltage of the DC / DC converter circuit C1, it is required to reduce the variation of the digital potentiometer 19.

  However, since it is difficult to reduce the variation of the digital potentiometer 19, in the conventional power supply device, in order to increase the accuracy of the output voltage of the DC / DC converter circuit C1, a process for absorbing the variation before shipment from the factory. Needed to be done separately. For this reason, the conventional power supply apparatus has a problem that costs and labor associated with the processing are generated.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a reference voltage output circuit and a power supply apparatus that do not require processing for absorbing variations.

  In order to solve the above problems, a reference voltage output circuit according to the present invention is a power supply circuit that performs feedback control so that the voltage value of the feedback voltage obtained by feeding back the output voltage matches the voltage value of the reference voltage. A reference voltage output circuit for outputting a reference voltage generated from a DC voltage of a DC voltage source, wherein a shunt regulator having a cathode terminal connected to an output terminal for outputting the reference voltage, a resistor array having a plurality of taps, a plurality of A wiper connected to one of the taps, and a digital potentiometer having a wiper control unit that controls a wiper connection position in response to a command signal input from the outside, and the shunt regulator has a cathode terminal of the resistor array One end connected, the anode terminal connected to the other end of the resistor array, and the reference terminal passed through the wiper Characterized in that it is connected to one of a plurality of taps.

  According to this configuration, the voltage value of the reference voltage is determined by the internal reference voltage value of the shunt regulator and the position of the wiper of the digital potentiometer (the resistance value between one end of the resistor array and the resistance value between the other end and the wiper). Therefore, it becomes irrelevant to variations in the resistance value of the resistor array constituting the digital potentiometer. Therefore, according to this configuration, variations in the output voltage can be reduced, and therefore processing for absorbing the variations is not necessary.

  In order to solve the above problems, a power supply device according to the present invention includes a power supply circuit that performs feedback control so that a voltage value of a feedback voltage obtained by feeding back an output voltage matches a voltage value of a reference voltage, and a feedback voltage. And a reference voltage output circuit that generates a reference voltage and outputs the reference voltage to the power supply circuit, one end of the feedback voltage output circuit being a power supply It consists of a voltage dividing resistor circuit that is connected to the output terminal of the circuit and whose voltage dividing point is connected to the feedback voltage input terminal of the power supply circuit. The reference voltage output circuit has the cathode terminal connected to the reference voltage input terminal of the power supply circuit. A shunt regulator, a resistor array having a plurality of taps, a wiper connected to one of the plurality of taps, and a wiper connection position in accordance with an externally input command signal A shunt regulator having a cathode terminal connected to one end of the resistor array, an anode terminal connected to the other end of the resistor array, and a reference terminal connected to one of the plurality of taps through the wiper. It is connected to crab.

  According to this configuration, the output voltage includes the internal reference voltage value of the shunt regulator, the wiper position of the digital potentiometer (the ratio between the resistance value between one end of the resistor array and the resistance value between the other end and the wiper). Since it is determined by the resistance value of the voltage dividing resistor circuit, it becomes irrelevant to variations in the resistance value of the resistor array constituting the digital potentiometer. Therefore, according to this configuration, variations in the output voltage can be reduced, and therefore processing for absorbing the variations is not necessary.

  In the above power supply apparatus, for example, the power supply circuit is a DC / DC converter circuit that charges a battery mounted on the vehicle and a control circuit that controls the DC / DC converter circuit, and the wiper control unit of the digital potentiometer The connection position of the wiper can be controlled according to a command signal output from a monitoring unit that monitors the state of charge.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the reference voltage output circuit and power supply device which do not require the process for absorbing dispersion can be provided.

It is a block diagram of the power supply device which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram of the conventional power supply device. It is a block diagram of a digital potentiometer.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of a reference voltage output circuit and a power supply device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Constitution]
FIG. 1 shows a power supply device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the power supply device according to this embodiment includes a full-bridge type DC / DC converter circuit C1, a switching control circuit C2, a feedback voltage output circuit C3, and a reference voltage output circuit C4. Yes. This power supply apparatus steps down an input voltage input from an assembled battery (high voltage battery) 1 in which a plurality of storage battery cells are connected in series by a DC / DC converter circuit C1 and outputs the resulting voltage to an auxiliary battery (low voltage battery) 11. To do. The DC / DC converter circuit C1 and the switching control circuit C2 correspond to the “power supply circuit” of the present invention. Note that, among the components shown in FIG. 1, the components given the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 2 are the same as those described in the related art, and a description thereof is partially omitted here.

  The feedback voltage output circuit C3 includes a voltage dividing resistor circuit in which a resistor 15 and a resistor 16 are connected in series. In the voltage dividing resistor circuit, one end of the resistor 15 is connected to the output terminal on the high potential side of the DC / DC converter circuit C1, and a connection point (voltage dividing point) between the other end of the resistor 15 and one end of the resistor 16 is switched. The circuit C2 is connected to the feedback voltage input terminal FB, and the other end of the resistor 16 is connected to the reference potential (GND).

  The reference voltage output circuit C4 includes a shunt regulator 17, a resistor 18, and a digital potentiometer 19. The digital potentiometer 19 includes a resistor array 20 having a plurality of taps, a wiper W connected to any of the plurality of taps, and a connection position of the wiper W according to a command signal input from the microcomputer (monitoring unit) 22. It has a wiper control unit 21 for electronic control. The microcomputer 22 monitors the state of charge of the battery 11 via the CAN bus.

The cathode terminal of the shunt regulator 17 is connected to the reference voltage input terminal REF of the switching control circuit C2 and one end A of the resistor array 20, and is connected to a 15V external power source (DC voltage source) via the resistor 18. The anode terminal of the shunt regulator 17 is connected to the other end B of the resistor array 20 and is connected to a reference potential (GND). The reference terminal of the shunt regulator 17 is connected to any tap of the resistor array 20 through the wiper W. The shunt regulator 17 controls the current flowing between the cathode terminal and the anode terminal so that the voltage value of the tap to which the wiper W is connected matches the preset internal reference voltage value _Vref .

となる。上記（４）式から、抵抗アレイ２０の他端ＢとワイパーＷとの間の抵抗値Ｒ_ＢＷは、

となる。上記（５）式から、基準電圧出力回路Ｃ４から出力される基準電圧の電圧値Ｖ_ＲＥＦは、

となる。 Here, if the ratio of the resistance value R _BW between the other end B and the wiper W to the resistance value (full-scale resistance value) R _AB between the one end A and the other end B of the resistor array 20 is defined as k. , Ratio k is

It becomes. From the above equation (4), the resistance value R _BW between the other end B of the resistor array 20 and the wiper W is

It becomes. From the above equation (5), the voltage value V _REF of the reference voltage output from the reference voltage output circuit C4 is

It becomes.

As can be seen from the above equation (6), the voltage value V _REF of the reference voltage output from the reference voltage output circuit C 4 is equal to the internal reference voltage value V _ref of the shunt regulator 17 and the position (resistance) of the wiper W of the digital potentiometer 19. The ratio k) of the resistance value R _BW and the resistance value R _AB of the array 20 is determined. Here, since the resistance value R _BW and the resistance value R _AB of the resistance array 20 _vary in the same direction at the same rate, the ratio k is not affected by the variation. Therefore, the voltage value V _REF of the reference voltage output from the reference voltage output circuit C4 is independent of the resistance value R _AB of the resistor array 20 and its variation.

となる。 On the other hand, the switching control circuit C2 includes a switching element such that the difference between the voltage value of the feedback voltage input to the feedback voltage input terminal FB and the voltage value V _REF of the reference voltage input to the reference voltage input terminal REF becomes zero. Since 2, 3, 4, 5 are driven, the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage output from the DC / DC converter circuit C1 is

It becomes.

となる。上記（８）式から分かるように、ＤＣ／ＤＣコンバータ回路Ｃ１から出力される出力電圧の電圧値Ｖ_ＯＵＴは、シャントレギュレータ１７の内部基準電圧値Ｖ_ｒｅｆと、デジタルポテンショメータ１９のワイパーＷの位置（抵抗アレイ２０の抵抗値Ｒ_ＢＷと抵抗値Ｒ_ＡＢとの比率ｋ）と、抵抗１５、１６の抵抗値Ｒ_１５、Ｒ_１６とで決定される。上述したように、比率ｋは抵抗アレイ２０の抵抗値Ｒ_ＡＢのバラツキの影響を受けないので、ＤＣ／ＤＣコンバータ回路Ｃ１から出力される出力電圧の電圧値Ｖ_ＯＵＴは、抵抗アレイ２０の抵抗値Ｒ_ＡＢおよびそのバラツキとは無関係になる。 Therefore, from the above equations (6) and (7), the voltage value V _OUT of the output voltage output from the DC / DC converter circuit C1 is

It becomes. As can be seen from the above equation (8), the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage output from the DC / DC converter circuit C1 is equal to the internal reference voltage value _Vref of the shunt regulator 17 and the position of the wiper W of the digital potentiometer 19 ( The ratio k) of the resistance value R _BW and the resistance value R _AB of the resistance array 20 and the resistance values R ₁₅ and R ₁₆ of the resistors ₁₅ and ₁₆ are determined. As described above, since the ratio k is not affected by variations in the resistance value R _AB of the resistor array 20, the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage output from the DC / DC converter circuit C1 is the resistance value of the resistor array 20. It becomes irrelevant to R _AB and its variation.

As a result, the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment can eliminate the variation of the digital potentiometer 19 (the variation of the resistance value R _AB of the resistor array 20) that has the greatest influence on the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage. Further, in the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment, the resistors 24 and 25 of the reference voltage output circuit C4 ′ provided in the conventional power supply circuit are not necessary, and thus the resistance values R ₂₄ and R ₂₅ of the resistors ₂₄ and ₂₅ vary. Can also be eliminated. Therefore, in the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment, variations in the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage can be significantly reduced, so that processing for absorbing the variations is not necessary. Since the variation of the internal reference voltage value V _ref of the shunt regulator 17 and the resistance values R ₁₅ and R ₁₆ of the resistors ₁₅ and ₁₆ are relatively small, the influence of the output voltage on the voltage value V _OUT is limited. .

[Comparison study 1]
Next, the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment and the conventional power supply circuit shown in FIG. The variation was within ± 2%).

In the conventional power supply circuit, the internal reference voltage value V _ref of the shunt regulator 17 is 2.5 V, the variation is ± 0.5%, the resistance value R ₂₄ of the resistor ₂₄ is 10 kΩ, and the variation is ± 0.5%. The resistance value R ₂₅ of ₂₅ is 6.2 kΩ, the variation is ± 0.5%, the resistance value R ₁₅ of the resistor ₁₅ is 6.8 kΩ, the variation is ± 0.5%, and the resistance value R ₁₆ of the resistor ₁₆ is 4 .3Keiomega, and 0.5% ± variation, the resistance value _{R AB} of the resistor array 20 to 5 k.OMEGA, and 20% ± variation. The digital potentiometer 19 is an 8-bit product, the number of taps is 256 Taps, and the position range of the wiper W is 20% to 80% (50 Taps to 205 Taps). Further, the required resistance value of R _BW calculated inside the microcomputer 22 based on the above equation (3) is 1.35 kΩ, and the position of the wiper W is an integer value of Steps = 256 × R _BW / R _AB . The indicated value for the position (number of steps) of the wiper W is 69 Steps.

When the microcomputer 22 instructs 69 Steps, if the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage is calculated backward using the above equation (3), the center value V _OUTTYP of the output voltage becomes 14.40 V, and the maximum value V _{OUTMAX of the} output voltage. Was 15.03 V (the variation was + 4.4%), and the minimum value V _OUTMIN of the output voltage was 13.82 V (the variation was −4.0%). From this result, it can be seen that the conventional power supply circuit does not satisfy the required specification 1 of the output voltage, and therefore a separate process for absorbing the variation is required.

On the other hand, in the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment, the internal reference voltage value V _ref of the shunt regulator 17 is 2.5 V, the variation is ± 0.5%, the resistance value R ₁₅ of the resistor ₁₅ is 5.6 kΩ, and the variation is ± The resistance value R ₁₆ of the resistor ₁₆ was 3.3 kΩ, the variation was ± 0.5%, the resistance value _AB of the resistor array 20 was 5 kΩ, and the variation was ± 20%. The digital potentiometer 19 is an 8-bit product, the number of taps is 256 Taps, and the position range of the wiper W is 20% to 80% (50 Taps to 205 Taps). Further, the ratio k of R _BW and R _AB calculated inside the microcomputer 22 based on the above equation (8) is k = 0.468, and the position of the wiper W is Steps = 256 × R _BW / R _AB = 256 ×. Since it is an integer value of k, the indicated value of the position (number of steps) of the wiper W is 120 Steps.

When the microcomputer 22 instructs 120 Steps, the center value V _OUTTYP of the output voltage is 14.38 V _when the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage is calculated backward using the above equation (8), and the maximum value V _{OUTMAX of the} output voltage is _obtained. Was 14.55 V (the variation was + 1.0%), and the minimum output voltage V _OUTMIN was 14.22 V (the variation was −1.3%). From this result, it can be seen that the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment satisfies the required specification 1 of the output voltage, so that the process for absorbing the variation is unnecessary.

[Comparison study 2]
Next, the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment and the conventional power supply circuit shown in FIG. The variation was within ± 2%).

The configurations of the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment and the conventional power supply circuit are the same as those in Comparative Study 1 except for the position (number of steps) of the wiper W. In the conventional power supply circuit, the required resistance value of R _BW calculated inside the microcomputer 22 based on the above equation (3) is 3.27 kΩ, and the position of the wiper W is set to an integer value of Steps = 256 × R _BW / R _AB Therefore, the instruction value of the position (number of steps) of the wiper W is 167 Steps. On the other hand, in the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment, the ratio k between R _BW and R _AB calculated inside the microcomputer based on the above equation (8) is k = 0.544, and the position of the wiper W is Steps = 256 × R. _{Since BW} / R _AB = 256 × k is an integer value, the indicated value of the position (number of steps) of the wiper W is 139 Steps.

For the conventional power supply circuit, when the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage is calculated backward using the above equation (3), the center value V _OUTTYP of the output voltage is 12.41 V, and the maximum value V _OUTMAX of the output voltage is 13 .16V (variation is + 6.1%), and the minimum output voltage V _OUTMIN is 11.77V (variation is -5.1%). From this result, it can be seen that the conventional power supply circuit does not satisfy the required specification 2 of the output voltage, and therefore a separate process for absorbing the variation is required.

On the other hand, for the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment, when the voltage value _VOUT of the output voltage is calculated backward using the above equation (8), the center value V _OUTTYP of the output voltage becomes 12.42 V, _which is the maximum value of the output voltage. V _OUTMAX was 12.56 V (the variation was + 1.3%), and the minimum output voltage V _OUTMIN was 12.28 V (the variation was −1.0%). From this result, it can be seen that the power supply circuit according to the present embodiment satisfies the required specification 2 of the output voltage, and therefore processing for absorbing variations is unnecessary.

  Although the embodiments of the reference voltage output circuit and the power supply device according to the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments.

  For example, if the wiper control unit 21 of the digital potentiometer 19 can electronically control the connection position of the wiper W according to an externally input command signal, the configuration can be changed as appropriate.

  Moreover, although the said embodiment demonstrated the case where the power supply device which concerns on this invention was applied to electric vehicles, such as an electric vehicle, naturally, it can apply also to other than an electric vehicle.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the reference voltage output circuit according to the present invention is applied to a DC / DC converter has been described, but the voltage value of the feedback voltage obtained by feeding back the output voltage matches the voltage value of the reference voltage. As long as the power supply device includes a power supply circuit that performs feedback control and a feedback voltage output circuit that generates a feedback voltage and outputs the feedback voltage to the power supply circuit, the power supply device can be applied to devices other than the DC / DC converter.

C1 DC / DC converter circuit C2 Switching control circuit C3 Feedback voltage output circuit C4 Reference voltage output circuit 1 High voltage battery 2 to 5 Switching element 6 Transformer 7 and 8 Diode 9 Choke coil 10 Smoothing capacitor 11 Auxiliary battery 12 Error amplifier 13 PWM Signal generator 14 Drive units 15 and 16 Resistor 17 Shunt regulator 18 Resistor 19 Digital potentiometer 20 Resistor array 21 Wiper controller 22 Microcomputer

Claims (3)

A reference voltage output that outputs the reference voltage generated from the DC voltage of the DC voltage source to a power supply circuit that performs feedback control so that the voltage value of the feedback voltage obtained by feeding back the output voltage matches the voltage value of the reference voltage A circuit,
A shunt regulator having a cathode terminal connected to an output terminal for outputting the reference voltage;
A digital potentiometer having a resistor array having a plurality of taps, a wiper connected to one of the plurality of taps, and a wiper control unit for controlling a connection position of the wiper according to a command signal input from the outside;
With
The shunt regulator has the cathode terminal connected to one end of the resistor array, the anode terminal connected to the other end of the resistor array, and a reference terminal connected to one of the plurality of taps through the wiper. A reference voltage output circuit. A power supply circuit that performs feedback control so that a voltage value of a feedback voltage obtained by feeding back an output voltage matches a voltage value of a reference voltage; a feedback voltage output circuit that generates the feedback voltage and outputs the feedback voltage; and A reference voltage output circuit that generates a reference voltage and outputs the reference voltage to the power supply circuit,
The feedback voltage output circuit is composed of a voltage dividing resistor circuit having one end connected to the output terminal of the power supply circuit and a voltage dividing point connected to the feedback voltage input terminal of the power supply circuit,
The reference voltage output circuit is
A shunt regulator having a cathode terminal connected to a reference voltage input terminal of the power supply circuit;
A digital potentiometer having a resistor array having a plurality of taps, a wiper connected to one of the plurality of taps, and a wiper control unit for controlling a connection position of the wiper according to a command signal input from the outside;
With
The shunt regulator has the cathode terminal connected to one end of the resistor array, the anode terminal connected to the other end of the resistor array, and a reference terminal connected to one of the plurality of taps through the wiper. A power supply device characterized by that. The power supply circuit is a DC / DC converter circuit that charges a battery mounted on a vehicle and a control circuit that controls the DC / DC converter circuit.
The power supply according to claim 2, wherein the wiper control unit of the digital potentiometer controls a connection position of the wiper according to a command signal output from a monitoring unit that monitors a state of charge of the battery. apparatus.

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