Patent attributes
A resonant converter has a primary resonant tank circuit and a secondary resonant tank circuit. An inverter circuit converts an input DC voltage received by the resonant converter at an input voltage node to a pulsating signal that is fed to the primary resonant tank circuit to generate a resonant tank current that flows through a primary winding of a transformer. The resonant tank current induces current in a secondary winding of the transformer. The induced current is rectified by a rectifier and the rectified signal is filtered by an output capacitor to generate an output DC voltage at an output voltage node. The secondary resonant tank circuit is disposed between the input voltage node and the output voltage node to inject odd order harmonics of the operating frequency to the primary tank circuit to shape the resonant tank current.
