A controller includes a first sensing pin receiving a first sensing signal indicating a level of an input voltage of a resonant converter, a second sensing pin receiving a second sensing signal indicating a level of an input current of the resonant converter, a feedback pin receiving a feedback signal indicating a level of an output voltage of the resonant converter, and a first driving pin and a second driving pin controlling a high side switch and a low side switch of the resonant converter, respectively. The controller generates a compensated signal based on the first sensing signal, compares the compensated signal with a peak value of the second sensing signal to generate a first comparison result, compares the feedback signal with a threshold to generate a second comparison result, and controls the high side low side switches based on the first and the second comparison results.

A power supply comprises a controller configured to control a power converter by generating drive signals that control the opening and closing of a high side switch and a low side switch. The controller is configured to selectively control the high side switch according to various modes of operation depending on operating conditions such as input voltage and load power consumption. The modes of operation can include, for example, a mode in which the high side switch is closed and then opened once during each of the series of switching cycles and a mode of operation in which the high side switch is closed and then opened two times during each of the series of switching cycles.

A driver circuit includes an input node to receive an input signal for conversion at the output node of a converter, a driver node to provide to a switching power circuit stage in the converter a pulse-width modulated drive signal having an active time, first and second active time generation paths, and a selector circuit coupled to the first and second active time generation paths. The circuit is operable selectively in a first and a second operational mode wherein the driver node receives the pulse-width modulated drive signal having a first active time value generated in the first active time generation path, or a second active time value generated in the second active time generation path. The second active time generation path includes an active time generator network to provide a second active time value with the second active time value adaptively variable to match the first active time value.

The present invention relates to a switched-mode power supply that comprises a detection circuit for detecting a coupling of an electrical device to the switched-mode power supply and a decoupling of the electrical device from the switched-mode power supply, a switch for controlling the supply of electric power to the switched-mode power supply, a control circuit for controlling the switch, the control circuit being configured to turn on the switch when the coupling of the electrical device has been detected, and to turn off the switch when the decoupling of the electrical device has been detected, and a supply circuit for providing a supply voltage to the detection circuit and the control circuit.

A PWM controller in a switching mode power supply provides to a power switch a PWM signal determining an ON time and an OFF time. A peak detector detects a voltage peak of a line voltage generated by rectifying an alternating-current input voltage. An OFF-time control unit controls the PWM signal and determines the OFF time in response to a compensation voltage, which is in response to an output voltage of the switching mode power supply. An ON-time control unit controls the PWM signal and determines the ON time in response to the compensation voltage and the voltage peak. The ON-time control unit is configured to make the ON time not less than a minimum ON time, and the minimum ON time is determined in response to the voltage peak.

An LLC resonant converter includes a transformer and a primary-side circuit coupled to the transformer. The primary-side circuit includes a first bridge arm, a second bridge arm, and a control unit. The first bridge arm includes a first switch and a second switch, and the second bridge arm includes a third switch and a fourth switch. The control unit provides a first control signal to control the first switch and provides a fourth control signal to control the fourth switch. The control unit adjusts a switching frequency of the first control signal and the fourth control signal according to an output voltage. When the switching frequency increases to a frequency threshold value, the switching frequency is controlled to be fixed at the frequency threshold, and the first control signal and the fourth control signal are controlled to have a variable phase difference.

A bidirectional direct current converter includes a controller that controls a switching transistor in the bidirectional direct current converter to reduce an inductance of an inductor, thereby reducing a size and costs of the inductor, and further reducing a size and costs of the entire bidirectional direct current converter. The bidirectional direct current converter further includes a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a third switching transistor, a fourth switching transistor, and a capacitor. The controller is coupled to the first switching transistor, the second switching transistor, the third switching transistor, and the fourth switching transistor. The controller performs complementary control on the first switching transistor and the third switching transistor, and performs complementary control on the second switching transistor and the fourth switching transistor.

Embodiments include systems, methods, and apparatuses for controlling off-time during a burst mode in an LLC converter. In one embodiment, a circuit comprises an LLC converter having a primary side and a burst mode controller, the burst mode controller configured to monitor, on the primary side of the LLC converter, electrical current, and in response to a determination that the electrical current is below a first threshold, increase an off-time for switches in the LLC converter and in response to a determination that the electrical current is above a second threshold that is higher than the first threshold, decrease the off-time for the switches in the LLC converter.

An overall loss L during non-execution of intermittent boosting (in ordinary boosting) is calculated from losses L1 and L2 of motors and a loss LC of a boost converter during non-execution of intermittent boosting. The overall loss L during execution of intermittent boosting is calculated from the losses L1 and L2 of the motors and the loss LC of the boost converter during execution of intermittent boosting. A minimum loss-time boosting voltage Vtmp at which the overall loss L provides a minimum loss Ltmp is set to a target voltage VH*. The boost converter is then controlled in a control state corresponding to the minimum loss-time boosting voltage Vtmp.

A control method is provided for operating a power converter with a power switch and an inductive device. A current-sense signal is provided to represent an inductor current through the inductive device. An ON time of the power switch is determined in response to a feedback signal and a saw-wave signal, to operate the power converter in a non-power-saving mode. The feedback signal is generated according to an output voltage of the power converter. The power converter can be operated in a power-saving mode, a burst mode. Operating in the burst mode, the ON time is determined in response to the current-sense signal and a current-limiting signal, which is increased during a soft burst-in time and is decreased during a soft burst-out time.