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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1997
Qing Chen, Plano, TX (US);
Victor Ke-Ji Lee, Plano, TX (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
For use in a power converter having a rectifier coupled to an output thereof, a snubber circuit including an energy storage device coupled to the rectifier that moderates a voltage across the rectifier and a method of moderating the voltage. In one embodiment, the snubber circuit includes: (1) a first switch that regulates a voltage across the energy storage device, (2) an inductor, coupled to the first switch, that provides a discharge path for energy stored in the energy storage device when the first switch is conducting and (3) a second switch that recovers energy stored in the inductor to the output when the first switch is not conducting. The snubber circuit thereby reduces voltage stress across the rectifier during a current limit mode of operation.