Constant voltage dimming power supply and dimming system for lighting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10602580-B2
Application number	US-201916425394-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2019
Priority date	May 31, 2018
Publication date	Mar 24, 2020
Grant date	Mar 24, 2020

Abstract

The invention relates to a constant voltage dimming power supply for lighting device, which is used for adjusting output voltage regulated by dimmer to realize constant voltage PWM output, including a rectifying circuit performing rectifier filtering to output voltage regulated by dimmer; a constant voltage circuit electrically connected to output end of the rectifying circuit; a constant current load circuit electrically connected to output end of the rectifying circuit; a frequency conversion and protection sampling circuit electrically connected to output end of the constant current load circuit and constant voltage; and a switching circuit for controlling lighting load illumination; the frequency conversion and protection sampling circuit converts an output signal of the constant current load circuit into a duty cycle signal suitable for controlling the switching circuit and detects the output abnormality of the constant voltage circuit in real time, and the switching circuit is controlled to be turned on and off accordingly. Compared with the prior art, the constant voltage dimming power supply provided by the invention can provide a stable current and voltage and can well protect the lighting load.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A constant voltage dimming power supply for lighting device, being configured to adjust the output voltage after being regulated by a dimmer to realize constant voltage PWM output, includes:
a rectifying circuit, configured to rectify and filter an output voltage regulated by dimmer;
a constant voltage circuit, configured to be electrically connected to an output end of the rectifying circuit;
characterized in that:
a constant current load circuit, electrically connected to an output end of the rectifying circuit;
a frequency conversion and protection sampling circuit, configured to be electrically connected to the output end of the constant current load circuit and the output end of the constant voltage circuit;
and a switching circuit for controlling illumination of lighting load;
wherein the frequency conversion and protection sampling circuit includes a frequency conversion circuit that receives pulse signals output from the constant current load circuit, converts the output signal of the constant current load circuit into a duty cycle signal suitable for controlling the switching circuit, provides frequency conversion to output the same duty cycle signal, and detects the output abnormality of the constant voltage circuit in real time, so as to control the on-off of the switching circuit; and
a short circuit protection sampling circuit being configured to collect signals output from the constant voltage circuit and transmit them to the frequency conversion circuit.

2. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 1 , wherein the constant voltage dimming power supply further includes an absorbing circuit for filtering between the rectifying circuit and the constant current load circuit.

3. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 2 , wherein the constant voltage dimming power supply further includes a low voltage discharge circuit electrically connected between the absorbing circuit and the constant current load circuit;
the low voltage discharge circuit conducts when the input voltage is a low voltage and releases part of energy through the built-in load.

4. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 3 , wherein the low voltage discharge circuit includes electrically connected fourth switching tube, fifth switching tube, and load circuit in cooperation with the fourth switching tube for releasing the residual voltage of the circuit;
the fourth switching tube is inhibited from being turned on by the fifth switching tube when the rectifying circuit outputs a high voltage, and is turned on when the rectifying circuit outputs a low voltage, and the load circuit electrically connected thereto is energized to consume the residual voltage of the circuit.

5. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 4 , wherein the fourth switching tube and the fifth switching tube are NPN type triodes, and the load circuit is composed of load resistor;
the collector of the fourth switching tube is connected to the output end of the rectifying circuit through a load resistor, and the base is connected to the collector of the fifth switching tube and then connect to the output end of the rectifying circuit through a third current limiting resistor, the base of the fifth switching tube is connected with a pull-up resistor and a pull-down resistor;
the fifth switching tube is controlled to be on when the rectifying circuit outputs high voltage and off when it outputs low voltage by the resistance value ratio between the pull-up resistor and the pull-down resistor.

6. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 2 , wherein the absorbing circuit is composed of a fifth resistor and capacitor.

7. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 1 , wherein the constant current load circuit includes constant current circuit electrically connected to an output end of the rectifying circuit, and constant current load composed of optocoupler isolation device;
the constant current load outputs an output signal that is proportional to the phase-cut angle of the output voltage regulated by the dimmer.

8. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 7 , wherein the constant current circuit includes first constant current switching tube, second constant current switching tube electrically connected to each other to control the magnitude of the output current and voltage regulator tube electrically connected with first constant current switching tube to control the constant current load on and off;
when the first constant current switching tube is on and the current flowing therethrough is sufficient to cause the second constant current switching tube to be turned on, the second constant current switching tube is on to inhibit the first constant current switching tube to be on, and the output current is controlled to be constant by mutual inhibition of the two;
the voltage regulator tube controls the conduction and the off of the constant current load when the output value is lower than the stable value.

9. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 8 , wherein the first constant current switching tube and the second constant current switching tube are NPN type triodes;
wherein the base of the first constant current switching tube is electrically connected to the first current limiting resistor and the collector of the second constant current switching tube, the collector of the first constant current switching tube is connected to the positive pole of the voltage regulator tube, the base of the second constant current switching tube is electrically connected to the emitter of the first constant current switching tube and grounded through the second current limiting resistor, the emitter of the first constant current switching tube is grounded, and the negative pole of the voltage regulator tube is electrically connected to the optocoupler isolation device.

10. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 1 , wherein the short circuit protection sampling circuit includes at least two voltage sampling resistors connected in series, and the frequency conversion circuit is composed of microprocessor;
the microprocessor judges whether the constant voltage circuit is abnormal or not and controls the switching circuit to be turned on and off according to the obtained partial voltage signal of at least one of the resistors.

11. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 1 , wherein the frequency conversion and protection sampling circuit further includes a voltage stabilizing source formed by voltage stabilizing block for use in the frequency conversion circuit.

12. The constant voltage dimming power supply of claim 1 , wherein the constant voltage circuit includes a power factor correction circuit at the rear end of the rectifying circuit, a flyback circuit electrically connected to the power factor correction circuit and carrying out energy conversion through the transformer, a second rectifying circuit for rectifying and filtering the output of the flyback circuit and a current limiting circuit.

Assignees

• Self Electronics Co Ltd
• Lin Wanjiong
• Self Electronics Usa Corp

Inventors

• Wang Qiming

Classifications

• H05B45/37 Primary

  Converter circuits · CPC title

• H05B45/327

  Burst dimming · CPC title

• H02M3/33523

  with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop · CPC title

• F21V23/023

  Power supplies in a casing (F21V23/003 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H05B45/34

  Voltage stabilisation; Maintaining constant voltage · CPC title