US 12,244,225 B2
Systems and methods for reducing effects of leakage inductance in flyback DC-DC converters
Xiucheng Huang, Torrance, CA (US); Bin Li, Pleasanton, CA (US); Weijing Du, Torrance, CA (US); and Yun Zhou, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Navitas Semiconductor Limited, Dublin (IE)
Filed by Navitas Semiconductor Limited, Dublin (IE)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/933,803.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/264,143, filed on Nov. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202111116824.1 (CN), filed on Sep. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0090234 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H02M 1/34 (2007.01); H02M 1/44 (2007.01); H02M 3/335 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01); H02M 1/32 (2007.01)
CPC H02M 1/44 (2013.01) [H02M 1/344 (2021.05); H02M 3/3353 (2013.01); H02M 3/33569 (2013.01); H02M 1/0054 (2021.05); H02M 1/32 (2013.01); H02M 3/33507 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A circuit comprising: a flyback DC-DC converter comprising: a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, the primary winding extending from a first terminal to a second terminal; a first switch having a first gate terminal, a first source terminal and a first drain terminal, the first drain terminal coupled to the first terminal of the primary winding; a second switch having a second gate terminal, a second source terminal and a second drain terminal, the second source terminal coupled to the first terminal of the primary winding; and a capacitor coupled between the second drain terminal and the second terminal of the primary winding; wherein the second switch is arranged to transition between on and off states such that a sum of a first time period and a second time period equals a sum of a third time period and a fourth time period, wherein: the first time period is a delay time period from a time that the first switch is turned off to a time that the second switch is turned on; the second time period is a time period that the second switch is on; the third time period is a resonance time period of a resonator, the resonator formed by a leakage inductance of the transformer and a capacitance of the capacitor; and the fourth time period is a time period to discharge the leakage inductance of the transformer into the capacitor.