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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2017
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Kazunori Kidera, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 3/337 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/33584 (2013.01); H02M 3/3376 (2013.01); H02M 3/33569 (2013.01); H02M 3/33576 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0003 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0032 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control circuit converts power by controlling a phase difference between a switching phase of a plurality of switching elements of a first bridge circuit and a switching phase of a plurality of switching elements of a second bridge circuit such that the control circuit controls the phase difference to be smaller to reduce the output power. When the phase difference reaches a predefined lower limit value in a step-down mode of stepping down the input power, the control circuit controls an on-time of the plurality of switching elements of the second bridge circuit to be shorter while the phase difference is fixed at the lower limit value.