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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2011
Bernard Keogh, Cork, IE;
Colin Gillmor, Limerick, IE;
Bernard Keogh, Cork, IE;
Colin Gillmor, Limerick, IE;
Texas Instruments (Cork) Limited, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A sensing arrangement and method a sense winding is used to provide a voltage which represents the voltage appearing across an in-circuit magnetic component. In a flyback phase, when the component is supplying the output, that voltage represents an output voltage and in a supply phase, the supply voltage. This arrangement provides a solution to the problem of the disparity in magnitude of sense winding output during the two phases by proving a pull-up resistor arranged to apply bias to the voltage measured, the pull-up being to a first level during the supply period and to a second value during the flyback period, the first and second levels being selected such that the voltage across the sense winding is scaled differently during the supply period and the flyback period. The invention is suitable for use in a transformer based flyback power converter in which the magnitude disparity problem may be exacerbated by a turns ratio.