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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2017
Power Integrations, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Balu Balakrishnan, Saratoga, CA (US);
David Michael Hugh Matthews, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Vikram Balakrishnan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Roland Sylvere Saint-Pierre, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhao-Jun Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Giao Minh Pham, Milpitas, CA (US);
Qing McIntosh, San Jose, CA (US);
Power Integrations, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for regulating a power converter includes initiating a transition of a switch coupled to an input side of the power converter from an OFF to an ON state to regulate a transfer of energy from the input to an output side of the power converter after a switch control signal generator receives an enable signal and if a feedback signal representative of an output of the power converter indicates a change in an output of the power converter. The enable signal is generated to communicate a control signal from the output to the input side in response to a first signal representative of a voltage on an output terminal that oscillates in response to an ending of the transfer of energy. The transition of the switch from the OFF to the ON state occurs substantially at a time that the first signal reaches an extremum.