A wide-range compatible switching power supply circuit employs switching
frequency varying control and allows enhancement of its AC to DC power
conversion efficiency when a large AC input voltage is used. A coupled
resonant circuit employing electromagnetic coupling by an isolation
converter transformer is formed by providing a series resonant circuit
both on the primary side and on the secondary side of the transformer. In
order to achieve a unimodal output characteristic in the coupled resonant
circuit, the length of a gap formed in a core of the isolation converter
transformer is set to about 2.0 mm, and a coupling coefficient is set to
about 0.8 or less. Thus, the switching frequency variable control range
can be narrowed, which allows a wide-range compatible configuration. In
addition, resonant frequencies of primary-side and secondary-side
resonant circuits are set so that a requisite phase shift arises between
a primary-side series resonant current and a secondary-side rectified
current at least when an AC input voltage is 100 V and the load power is
the maximum load power. Thus, the AC to DC power conversion efficiency
when the AC input voltage VAC is 230 V can be enhanced.