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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1994
Masanori Ishii, Kawagoe, JP;
Koji Arakawa, Kawagoe, JP;
Toko, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an AC-DC converter in which an application range of an AC input voltage can be extended, keeping a voltage in a circuit from rising at a light load. In an AC-DC converter having a rectifier 3, a boost chopper 4 and a DC-DC converter 5, a PWM circuit 6, an one-shot multivibrator 7, a pulse synthesizer 8 and a comparator 9 are further arranged. The pulse synthesizer 8 generates a second pulse signal having a pulse width being narrower by a pulse width of the delay pulse V.sub.pD than that of the first pulse signal V.sub.pa by means of the first pulse signal V.sub.pa which the PWM circuit 6 output s and a delay pulse V.sub.pD generating in said one-shot multivibrator 7. The comparator 9 compares a voltage V.sub.C boosted up by the boost chopper 4 with a reference voltage V.sub.REF to stop generating the delay pulse when voltage V.sub.C drops below the reference voltage V.sub.REF .