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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2006
Applicants:
Johan Piper, Cambridgeshire, GB;
David M. Garner, London, GB;
Inventors:
Johan Piper, Cambridgeshire, GB;
David M. Garner, London, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for sensing the output current in a switch mode power supply (SMPS) using primary side sensing are described. A system includes a primary current sense input, a charge input to sense a charging time of an SMPS transformer; a discharge input to sense a discharging time of the transformer; at least one averager; and a calculator. The primary current is averaged by the averager over at least a switching cycle of the SMPS and the calculator estimates the output current of the SMPS using the averaged primary current, the charge signal and the discharge signal.