Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Rubinic Jaksa

Bing Gong

Anil Yaramasu

An LLC converter includes a switching stage including primary transistors, a resonant stage connected to the switching stage, a transformer including a primary winding connected to the resonant stage and a secondary winding coupled with the primary winding, a rectifying stage connected to the secondary winding of the transformer and providing an output voltage of the LLC converter, and a controller configured and/or programmed to, during start-up, control the output voltage by switching the primary transistors based on a first reference voltage that exponentially increases during start-up and a second reference voltage that is based on a resonant current of the resonant stage.

Soft-start for resonant converters

A power factor correction converter that outputs a DC output voltage from an AC input voltage, includes two channels each including a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected in cascade between a positive output terminal and a negative output terminal of the power factor correction converter and with a node between the high-side switch and the low-side switch; an inductor connected to a first terminal of the AC input voltage and the first node; a gate driver connected to the second high-side switch and the second low-side switch; a bootstrap circuit connected to the second node and the gate driver; wherein the second node is connected to a second terminal of the AC input voltage; and the bootstrap circuit is pre-charged at beginnings of negative half-cycles of the AC input voltage.

Bootstrap pre-charge circuit in totem-pole power factor correction converter

A converter includes a switching stage including first and second primary transistors, a resonant stage connected to the switching stage, a transformer including a primary winding connected to the resonant stage, a rectifying stage connected to a secondary winding of the transformer and including first and second synchronous rectifiers, and a controller. The controller is configured and/or programmed to operate in a steady-state mode in which an output voltage of the converter is regulated by varying a switching frequency of the first and second primary transistors and of the first and second synchronous rectifiers and a synchronous-rectification control mode in which the output voltage is regulated when an output-voltage overshoot is detected by switching the first and second primary transistors and the first and second synchronous rectifiers at a fixed switching frequency and by varying a duty cycle of the first and second synchronous rectifiers.

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Markham, Canada

Rubinic Jaksa