A wide-range compatible voltage resonant converter provides high efficiency and allows use of low-breakdown-voltage products for a circuit. The voltage resonant converter is provided with a secondary-side parallel resonant circuit and a secondary-side series resonant circuit, and a loose coupling state is established in which the coupling coefficient of an isolation converter transformer is about 0.7 or less. Thus, a constant-voltage control characteristic is obtained as a sharp unimodal characteristic, which narrows the switching frequency control region required for stabilization of an output voltage. In addition, a primary-side parallel resonant frequency, a secondary-side parallel resonant frequency and a secondary-side series resonant frequency are set so that a favorable power conversion efficiency is obtained. Moreover, an active clamp circuit is provided to suppress the peak level of a resonant voltage pulse to thereby allow use of low-breakdown-voltage products for a switching element and so on.

 
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