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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1999
Hiroki Takita, Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A power regulator including a coil connected to an output of a DC power source for rectifying an AC voltage, a charge-and-discharge capacitor for charging a current supplied from the DC power source through the coil and a backflow preventing diode, a switching device connected to a connection point of the coil and backflow preventing diode in parallel with the DC power source, and a microcomputer for detecting a zero-cross point of the magnetic field energy generated in the coil or the current flowing through the coil, and for bringing the switching device into conduction in response to the detection of the zero-cross point. This makes it possible to solve a problem of a conventional device in that the switching period of the switching device cannot be changed in accordance with variables such as temperature change, errors in circuit constants and the like because switching periods of the switching device are predetermined values.