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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2006
Masaru Sakai, Kyoto, JP;
Kiyotaka Umemoto, Kyoto, JP;
Masaru Sakai, Kyoto, JP;
Kiyotaka Umemoto, Kyoto, JP;
Rohm Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
An output monitoring comparator outputs an ON signal when an output voltage becomes lower than a reference voltage. A pulse modulator generates a pulse signal at a predetermined level, an ON time-period from when the ON signal is outputted. A driver circuit alternately turns ON, after a dead time, a switching transistor and a synchronous rectification transistor, based on the pulse signal. A light load mode detector compares a switching voltage at a connection point of the switching transistor and the synchronous rectification transistor, and ground potential, and at timing at which the ON signal is outputted from the output monitoring comparator, when the switching voltage is higher than the ground potential, nullifies the ON signal.