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Power supply device and image forming apparatus

Granted 24 Mar 2015 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Canon Inc.

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Inventors: Ryuhei Shoji, Minoru Hayasaki, Masaru Aoki · Examiner: Walter L Lindsay, Jr. · AU 2852 · TC 2800

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Abstract

The power supply device includes a transformer, a switching unit for driving a primary side of the transformer, a detection unit for detecting an output corresponding to a current flowing on the primary side, a transmission unit for transmitting an output voltage from a secondary side to the primary side, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the switching unit in accordance with an output from the transmission unit, in which, when a switching frequency for driving the switching unit falls within a predetermined frequency range including a resonant frequency of the transformer, the control unit controls the switching unit so as to shorten a turn-ON time of the switching unit in accordance with an output from the detection unit.

Claims

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Classifications

3 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section G — Physics
  • G03G15/00
Section H — Electricity
  • H02M3/335
USPC · US Patent Classification
399/88

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Pendency
2.1 y
754 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
non-final + final
Responses
1
no RCE
Examiner
Walter L Lindsay, Jr.
art unit 2852 · TC 2800
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related publicationUS 20130236206 A112 Sep 2013

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