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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2016
Applicant:

Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Chien-Tsun Hsu, Taipei, TW;

Hang-Seok Choi, Bedford, NH (US);

Chih-Hsien Hsieh, Dacun Township, Changhua County, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 1/08 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/33523 (2013.01); H02M 1/08 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0006 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0009 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0058 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0064 (2013.01); Y02B 70/1433 (2013.01);
Abstract

An exemplary embodiment of an alternating valley switching controller is provided. The alternating valley switching controller includes a valley detection circuit and an alternating circuit. The valley detection circuit is coupled to an auxiliary winding of a transformer to generate a valley-detection signal. The alternating circuit alternates a plurality of switching periods of a switching signal according to a blanking-window signal and the valley-detection signal. The blanking-window signal switches between a first voltage level and a second voltage level in the plurality of switching periods. The plurality of switching periods includes at least two first periods and at least two second periods which occur alternately in response to the first voltage level and the second voltage of the blanking-window signal.


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