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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Maejima, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/42 (2007.01); H02M 1/32 (2007.01); H02M 1/36 (2007.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/4225 (2013.01); H02M 1/32 (2013.01); H02M 1/36 (2013.01);
Abstract
A controller IC has, for example, a current detection terminal for detecting a coil current passing in a switching power supply and an on-timing setter configured to check for a ground short circuit at the current detection terminal when an output transistor turns off to generate an on-timing setting signal so as to turn on the output transistor, during normal operation, at the time point that the coil current has decreased to a zero value or a value close thereto and, during a ground short circuit, after the lapse of a predetermined minimum off-period.