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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1990
Antonius A Marinus, Eindhoven, NL;
Guy L De Bondt, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A switched mode power supply circuit includes a controllable switch in series with an inductive element between the terminals of a DC input voltage. A control circuit renders the switch alternately conductive and non-conductive. A rectifier for deriving a DC output voltage is coupled to the inductive element. To prevent the inductive element from becoming saturated, a switching element is coupled to the control circuit for maintaining the controllable switch in its blocked state only during a time interval which immediately follows an interval of conductance of the controllable switch and during which the voltage across the inductive element has the same polarity as when the rectifier is conductive.