	US 12,278,561 B2
	Switched capacitor voltage converter
Wei Zhao, Shanghai (CN); and Xing Liang, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN)
Filed by Southchip Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/985,050.
Claims priority of application No. 202111337104.8 (CN), filed on Nov. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0155494 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H02M 3/07 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01); H02M 3/156 (2006.01)

CPC H02M 3/07 (2013.01) [H02M 1/0058 (2021.05); H02M 3/1566 (2021.05)]

5 Claims

1. A switched capacitor voltage converter, comprising an inductive branch and two branches, wherein the two branches comprise a first branch and a second branch, and an input voltage, upon travelling via the two branches, is converted into another voltage and output;

the inductive branch is connected between the first branch and the second branch, and switch transistors in the first branch and the second branch are primary switch transistors; and

the inductive branch is configured to transfer an electric charge or electric charges on parasitic capacitors of one branch to another branch of the two branches after all the primary switch transistors are turned off, so that a voltage difference between both terminals of each of the primary switch transistors becomes zero, and then the each of the primary switch transistors is turned on, the voltage difference between both terminals of the each of the primary switch transistors is zero at an instant when the each of primary switch transistors is turned on respectively;

wherein the first branch comprises a first switch transistor, a second switch transistor, a third switch transistor, a fourth switch transistor, a fifth switch transistor, a sixth switch transistor, a seventh switch transistor, an eighth switch transistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor and a third capacitor; and the second branch comprises a ninth switch transistor, a tenth switch transistor, an eleventh switch transistor, a twelfth switch transistor, a thirteenth switch transistor, a fourteenth switch transistor, a fifteenth switch transistor, a sixteenth switch transistor, a fourth capacitor, a fifth capacitor and a sixth capacitor;

a first terminal of the first switch transistor and a first terminal of the ninth switch transistor are connected an input terminal of the switched capacitor voltage converter, the input terminal is connected to an external input voltage, a second terminal of the first switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the second switch transistor and a first terminal of the first capacitor, and a second terminal of the ninth switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the tenth switch transistor and a first terminal of the fourth capacitor;

a second terminal of the second switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the third switch transistor and a first terminal of the second capacitor, and a second terminal of the tenth switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the eleventh switch transistor and a first terminal of the fifth capacitor;

a second terminal of the third switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the fourth switch transistor and a first terminal of the third capacitor, and a second terminal of the eleventh switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the twelfth switch transistor and a first terminal of the sixth capacitor;

a second terminal of the fourth switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the fifth switch transistor and a first terminal of the seventh switch transistor, and a second terminal of the twelfth switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the thirteenth switch transistor and a first terminal of the fifteenth switch transistor;

a second terminal of the fifth switch transistor is connected to a second terminal of the first capacitor, a second terminal of the third capacitor and a first terminal of the sixth switch transistor, a second terminal of the seventh switch transistor is connected to a second terminal of the second capacitor and a first terminal of the eighth switch transistor, and a second terminal of the sixth switch transistor and a second terminal of the eighth switch transistor are grounded;

a second terminal of the thirteenth switch transistor is connected to a second terminal of the fourth capacitor, a second terminal of the sixth capacitor and a first terminal of the fourteenth switch transistor, and a second terminal of the fifteenth switch transistor is connected to a second terminal of the fifth capacitor and a first terminal of the sixteenth switch transistor, and a second terminal of the fourteenth switch transistor and a second terminal of the sixteenth switch transistor are grounded; and

the second terminal of the fourth switch transistor, the first terminal of the fifth switch transistor, the first terminal of the seventh switch transistor, the second terminal of the twelfth switch transistor, the first terminal of the thirteenth switch transistor and the first terminal of the fifteenth switch transistor are connected to an output terminal of the switched capacitor voltage converter;

wherein the inductive branch comprises a seventeenth switch transistor, an eighteenth switch transistor, a nineteenth switch transistor, a twentieth switch transistor, a twenty-first switch transistor, a twenty-second switch transistor and the inductor;

the second terminal of the first capacitor, the second terminal of the third capacitor, the second terminal of the fifth switch transistor and the first terminal of the sixth switch transistor are connected to a first connection point, and the second terminal of the second capacitor, the second terminal of the seventh switch transistor and the first terminal of the eighth switch transistor are connected to a second connection point;

the second terminal of the fourth capacitor, the second terminal of the sixth capacitor, the second terminal of the thirteenth switch transistor and the first terminal of the fourteenth switch transistor are connected to a third connection point, and the second terminal of the fifth capacitor, the second terminal of the fifteenth switch transistor and the first terminal of the sixteenth switch transistor are connected to a fourth connection point;

a first terminal of the seventeenth switch transistor is connected to the second connection point, a second terminal of the seventeenth switch transistor is connected to a first terminal of the inductor, a first terminal of the eighteenth switch transistor and a first terminal of the nineteenth switch transistor; a second terminal of the eighteenth switch transistor is grounded, and a second terminal of the nineteenth switch transistor is connected to the third connection point; and

a second terminal of the inductor is connected to a first terminal of the twentieth switch transistor, a first terminal of the twenty-first switch transistor and a first terminal of the twenty-second switch transistor, and a second terminal of the twentieth switch transistor is connected to the fourth connection point; and a second terminal of the twenty-first switch transistor is grounded, and a second terminal of the twenty-second switch transistor is connected to the first connection point.