The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 2023112275381, filed on Sep. 21, 2023, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the field of power supply technologies, and in particular to a method for controlling a resonant circuit and a resonant circuit.
Harmonic components associated with a switching noise in an LLC resonant converter are quite large. In order to comply with EMI standards, effective suppression solutions should be taken. In the related arts, frequency jitter technologies are used to distribute energy within a certain frequency band around a fundamental frequency and harmonic frequencies. In this way, under the premise of a total energy remaining unchanged, an energy at each point within the frequency band will be less than an initial energy. Therefore, a value detected by a test device is less than an initial value, which is beneficial for reaching a limit specified by the standards and meeting EMI test requirements.
It should be noted that the information disclosed in the Background section above is only for enhancing the understanding of the background of the present disclosure, and thus may include information that does not constitute prior art known to those of ordinary skill in the art.
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for controlling a resonant circuit, wherein the resonant circuit includes:
According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, there is further provided a resonant circuit, including:
According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is further provided an electronic device, including: a processor; and a memory configured to store executable instructions of the processor; wherein the processor is configured to execute the method for controlling the resonant circuit in the first aspect as described above by executing the executable instructions.
It should be noted that the above general description and the following detailed description are merely exemplary and explanatory and should not be construed as limiting of the disclosure.
The drawings herein are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present disclosure, and together with the description serve to explain principles of the present disclosure. Apparently, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present disclosure. For those of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings may be obtained based on these drawings without paying any creative effort.
Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the example embodiments can be implemented in a variety of forms and should not be construed as being limited to examples set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that the present disclosure will be more complete and comprehensive so as to convey the idea of the example embodiments to those skilled in this art. The described features, structures or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.
In addition, the drawings are merely schematic representations of the present disclosure and are not necessarily drawn to scale. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar parts, and the repeated description thereof will be omitted. Some of the block diagrams shown in the figures are functional entities and do not necessarily correspond to physically or logically separate entities. These functional entities may be implemented in software, or implemented in one or more hardware modules or integrated circuits, or implemented in different networks and/or processor devices and/or microcontroller devices.
As described above, harmonic components associated with a switching noise in an LLC resonant converter are quite large. In order to comply with EMI standards, effective suppression solutions should be taken. In the related arts, frequency jitter technologies are used to distribute energy within a certain frequency band around a fundamental frequency and harmonic frequencies. In this way, under the premise of a total energy remaining unchanged, an energy at each point within the frequency band will be less than an initial energy. Therefore, a value detected by a test device is less than an initial value, which is beneficial for reaching a limit specified by the standards and meeting EMI test requirements.
An LLC resonant circuit is typically used as a post-stage circuit of a two-stage circuit. When an input voltage of a pre-stage circuit of the two-stage circuit is a direct current (DC) voltage, or the input voltage of the pre-stage circuit of the two-stage circuit is an alternating current (AC) voltage and the two-stage circuit is under light load conditions, a switching frequency of the resonant circuit hardly changes, resulting in the inability to reduce the noise energy through the frequency jitter, which in turn leads to a large switching noise and cannot meet the EMI test requirements.
SPecific implementations of embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
A resonant circuit shown in
It should be noted that in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the secondary switching circuit 104 includes two synchronous rectifier switches S, and each synchronous rectifier switch S includes a body diode D1. The secondary winding 132 has two end points and a center tap. The two rectifier switches S rectify a voltage provided by the secondary winding 132 and then power the load.
An expression of a voltage gain G of the resonant circuit shown in
Lr represents an inductance of the inductor L1; Ln represents an inductance of an excitation inductor;
fsw represents a switching frequency of the synchronous rectifier switch S; fr represents a resonant frequency of the resonant circuit, and
Cr represents a capacitance value of the capacitor C1.
λ, n and fr are fixed, and in a case where the output remains unchanged (that is, Vo remains unchanged), when there is no change in V′, whether the switching frequency of the resonant circuit changes only depends on whether the input voltage Vin changes. When the pre-stage circuit whose output connects to the input of the resonant circuit has the DC input or has the AC input with the load of the resonant circuit being light, Vin hardly changes, resulting in the switching frequency of the resonant circuit hardly changing. However, reducing the noise energy through the frequency jitter technology requires the switching frequency of the resonant circuit to change, which means that in these two cases, the frequency jitter technology cannot be used to reduce the noise energy.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for controlling a resonant circuit. As shown in
In the S202, a conduction time of a body diode is adjusted in different working periods to cause a switching frequency of the resonant circuit to change.
It should be noted that when the synchronous rectifier switch S is turned on and has been working in a synchronous rectification mode, a periodic average value V1 of a conduction voltage drop of the synchronous rectifier switch S is as shown in formula (2):
As can be seen from formula (3), when the conduction time of the body diode D1 changes, the voltage V2 will change. Substituting V2 in the formula (3) into V′ in the formula (1) gives that when there is no change in Vin or a change amplitude of Vin is small, the voltage gain G will also change due to the change in V′. When circuit parameters are determined, A, n and fr will be fixed. According to the voltage gain expression in the formula (1), the switching frequency fsw of the synchronous rectifier switch S will change as the gain changes. When the conduction time of the body diode D1 changes periodically between Ts1˜Ts2, the gain also changes periodically, resulting in the change of fsw, achieving the effect that the resonant circuit generates the frequency jitter, and achieving the purpose of reducing the switching noise.
It should be noted that the resonant circuit is electrically connected to the pre-stage circuit, the output of the pre-stage circuit is connected to the input of the resonant circuit, and when the input voltage of the pre-stage circuit is in the DC form, or the input voltage of the pre-stage circuit is in the AC form with the load being a light load, the conduction time of the body diode is adjusted in the different working periods to cause the switching frequency of the resonant circuit to change. The load being the light load means that a ratio of the current load to the full load is lower than a preset threshold, for example, 10%.
It should be noted that the working period refers to the switching period, that is, the switching period of the synchronous rectifier switch S.
In some embodiments, the conduction time of the body diode D1 is adjusted in the different working periods to cause the switching frequency of the resonant circuit to change periodically. However, a period corresponding to the periodic change in the switching frequency of the resonant circuit is not the working period and is greater than the working period. The period corresponding to the periodic change in the switching frequency of the resonant circuit may have a time length of a plurality of working periods. That is, within several consecutive working periods, the switching frequency of the resonant circuit corresponding to each working period is different and changes continuously, which may be continuously increased or decreased, so as to achieve the frequency jitter effect.
Correspondingly, a conduction control signal of the body diode D1 is a periodically changing signal, a period of which is greater than the working period, and may have the time length of the plurality of working periods. In a specific implementation, the conduction control signal of the body diode D1 is a triangular wave, an exponential wave or a sine wave. It can be understood by those skilled in the art that the waveform of the conduction control signal of the body diode D1 is only an example without limiting the protection scope of embodiments of the present disclosure, and any waveform of the conduction control signal of the body diode D1 that can cause the switching frequency of the resonant circuit to change periodically can be adopted.
It can be seen from the above step that in the method for controlling the resonant circuit provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, the conduction time of the body diode is adjusted to cause the switching frequency of the resonant circuit to change, achieving the frequency jitter, so as to reduce the noise energy and reduce the switching noise in the resonant circuit, thereby meeting the EMI test requirements.
In order to better illustrate the method for controlling the resonant circuit provided in embodiments of the present disclosure and the achieved technical effect, a specific example is now given for further explanation. This specific example takes a specific LLC resonant converter as an example. Taking the control for the synchronous rectifier switch Ss2 of the secondary switching circuit as an example, a block diagram of a control logic for the synchronous rectifier switch Ss2 in the related arts as shown in
As can be seen from
A formation process of a sawtooth wave is as follows: there is a crystal oscillator in an internal circuit or outside of a Micro Control Unit (MCU), which is used to set a time t1 taken for each count inside the MCU; and the frequency controller outputs an LLC total counting period Tperiod, so in each counting period inside the PWM generator module, the total number of counts that need to be counted is Iperid/t1, and the count starts from 0 to Tperid/t1, and then starts from 0 again, and the sawtooth wave is formed.
A logic for generating the primary driving signal in
A logic for generating the secondary driving signal in
It can be seen from
It can be seen from the above process that compared with the related arts, the SR dead time controller capable of outputting the conduction control signal of the body diode in the waveform of the triangular wave, the sine wave or the exponential wave is added within the PWM generator module in this specific example, so that the conduction time of the secondary switch after the superimposition is gradually increased or decreased in several consecutive different working periods, and then the switching frequency of the LLC resonant converter changes periodically (which is not the working period of the switch), which achieves the effect of frequency jitter and reduces the switching noise to meet the EMI test requirements.
Based on the same inventive concept, embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a resonant circuit. Since a principle of solving the problem in the resonant circuit embodiments is similar to that in the above method embodiments, the implementation of the resonant circuit embodiments may refer to the implementation of the above method embodiments, and the repeated parts will not be repeated.
It should be noted that the controller 705 is configured to:
A conduction control signal of the body diode 741 is a periodically changing signal, and a period of the periodically changing signal is greater than the working period. The conduction control signal of the body diode 741 is a triangular wave, an exponential wave or a sine wave.
The resonant circuit is typically used as the post-stage circuit of the two-stage circuit. The resonant circuit is electrically connected to the pre-stage circuit, and the output of the pre-stage circuit is connected to the input of the resonant circuit.
Further, the controller 705 is configured to:
Those skilled in the art can understand that various aspects of the present disclosure may be implemented as a system, a method, or a program product. Therefore, various aspects of the present disclosure can be embodied in the following forms: a complete hardware implementation, a complete software implementation (including firmware, microcode, etc.), or a combination of hardware and software implementations, which can be collectively referred to as “circuit”, “module’, or “system”. It should be noted that although several modules or units of devices for executing actions in the above detailed description are mentioned, such division of modules or units is not mandatory. In fact, features and functions of two or more of the modules or units described above may be embodied in one module or unit in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. Alternatively, the features and functions of one module or unit described above may be further divided into multiple modules or units.
In addition, although various steps of the method of the present disclosure are described in a particular order in the figures, this is not required or implied that the steps must be performed in the specific order, or all the steps shown must be performed to achieve the desired result. Additionally or alternatively, certain steps may be omitted, multiple steps may be combined into one step, and/or one step may be decomposed into multiple steps and so on.
Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art will readily understand that the example embodiments described herein may be implemented by software or by a combination of software with necessary hardware. Therefore, the technical solutions according to embodiments of the present disclosure may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (which may be a CD-ROM, a USB flash drive, a mobile hard disk, etc.) or on a network. A number of instructions are included to cause a computing device (which may be a personal computer, server, mobile terminal, or network device, etc.) to perform the methods in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure.
Other embodiments of the present disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art after those skilled in the art consider the specification and practice the technical solutions disclosed herein. The present application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the present disclosure, which are in accordance with the general principles of the present disclosure and include common general knowledge or conventional technical means in the art that are not disclosed in the present disclosure. The specification and embodiments are illustrative, and the real scope and spirit of the present disclosure is defined by the appended claims.
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2023112275381 | Sep 2023 | CN | national |