Patent ID: 7012816

Claim:
A self-excited switching power supply circuit comprising: a transformer including a primary winding, a secondary output winding, and a feedback winding; an oscillating field effect transistor which is connected in-series with the primary winding to a direct current power supply and which is turned on when a gate voltage of the transistor reaches a threshold voltage; a start-up resistor that is connected between a high voltage side terminal of the direct current power supply and a gate of the oscillating field effect transistor; an ON-control circuit which includes a feedback capacitor and a feedback resistor that are connected in-series between the feedback winding and the gate of the oscillating field effect transistor; and an OFF-control transistor which is connected between the gate of the oscillating field effect transistor and a low voltage side terminal of the direct current power supply, and which, following a turn-on operation of the oscillating field effect transistor, turns the oscillating field effect transistor off after a predetermined time has elapsed by causing electrical continuity to be established between the gate and the low voltage side terminal, wherein after the oscillating field effect transistor is turned off, the gate voltage is raised to the threshold voltage by a charge voltage of the feedback capacitor that is charged by a flyback voltage generated in the feedback winding to turn the oscillating field effect transistor on once again, and a time constant of the ON-control circuit is set such that the gate voltage exceeds the threshold voltage when, at the least, a polarity of a voltage of the feedback winding is reversed because of discharge of energy stored in the secondary output winding of the transformer.