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.