Patent ID: 7755874
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: H02M,Y02B

Abstract:
1. A switching control circuit that is provided in a self-excited DC-DC converter chopping a direct-current input voltage by turning on/off a switching element and then smoothing the chopped voltage with a smoothing circuit to generate an output voltage of a target level that is different from the level of the input voltage, the switching control circuit comprising: a switching control signal generation circuit that detects a change in ripples of the output voltage and generates a switching control signal for the on/off control of the switching element by comparing a feedback voltage obtained by feeding back the output voltage and a comparison voltage as a comparison target to make the output voltage follow the target level; an overcurrent protection signal generation circuit that detects the output current of the self-excited DC-DC converter and, when it is detected that the output current is in an overcurrent state where being equal to a predetermined current or greater, generates an overcurrent protection signal for turning off the switching element to make the output current less than the predetermined current regardless of the switching control signal; and an output correction circuit that adjusts the comparison voltage according to a relative error of the feedback voltage with respect to the reference voltage to make the average level of the feedback voltage coincide with the reference voltage corresponding to the target level and, when the overcurrent protection signal generation circuit detects that the output current is in the overcurrent state, reduces the level of the comparison voltage.