Control device applied in power factor correction power converter and control method thereof

Abstract

A control device and a control method applied to a power factor correction power converter. The control device is used to reduce the change rate of a reference signal having a rising part and a falling part when the input voltage is close to zero potential. When the main winding almost completely releases the stored energy and the falling part of the reference signal reaches a condition, the control device turns on a switch to start increasing the stored energy of the main winding.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an AC to DC converter architecture, in particular to an AC to DC converter architecture with power factor correction (power factor correction, PFC). Background technique [0002] In most AC-to-DC converters, it is desirable to have the entire circuit exhibit a purely resistive behavior with respect to the AC input voltage. For this reason, many active PFC architectures have been developed today, and these PFC architectures can generate a corresponding AC input current when receiving an AC input voltage. [0003] For PFC, it is very important to generate a sine wave current with very low total harmonic distortion (THD). THD and power factor represent the operational performance of the PFC circuit. The highest value of power factor is 1, and in general practice, THD is acceptable as long as it is lower than 15%. [0004] For example, US Patent Nos. 7,375,995, 7,397,678, re40016, and 7,295,452, etc. all disclose part of...

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[0007] However, even if the on-time increases slightly with the shortening of the off-time, once the off-time is too short, it will cause unnecessary high-frequency switching energy loss (switching loss)

Moreover, the on-time changes with the off-time (off-time), which may increase the THD instead

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