Power supply apparatus and actuator control apparatus
In accordance with the switching operation of a switching section, current is made to flow from a battery to an inductor repeatedly. A voltage generated at the inductor is smoothed by a condenser and then input to a regulator. A D/A converter within a CPU monitors the input to the regulator, and an output voltage of the regulator stabilizes a reference voltage of the D/A converter.
1. A power supply circuit comprising:
a switching section which causes current to flow from a battery to an inductor repeatedly;
a smoothing circuit which smoothes a voltage generated at the inductor and inputs the smoothed voltage to a regulator;
a monitor circuit which monitors the output of the smoothing circuit, with a reference voltage of the monitor circuit being stabilized by the output voltage of the regulator;
a control section which controls the activation or inactivation of pulse generation of the switching section on the basis of the result of the monitoring by the monitor circuit, wherein the control section is composed of a microcontroller; and
pulse generating section sets a specific register in the microcontroller for the switching section, thereby making use of a pulse generating function of generating or stopping pulses with a specific on/off ratio.
2. The power supply circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the monitor circuit is composed of a comparator or a D/A converter which inputs a reference voltage to the comparator.
3. The power supply circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the regulator is configured on the same chip as the pulse generator circuit which provides switching control of the inductor.
4. A power supply circuit comprising:
a microcontroller with the function of controlling the oscillation of a pulse signal with a specific pulse width;
a DC/DC converter which uses a battery controlled by the generated pulse signal as a power supply;
a regulator which converts the output of the DC/DC converter into a low voltage, wherein
after a specific time has elapsed since the output of the pulse signal, the microcontroller compares the output of the regulator with the output of the DC/DC converter, thereby controlling the pulse signal.