Filament power supply for electron accelerator and electron accelerator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10694616-B2
Application number	US-201916667849-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2019
Priority date	Oct 29, 2018
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a filament power supply for an electron accelerator and an electron accelerator. The filament power supply includes: a rectifier circuit configured to convert a power frequency AC voltage signal into a DC voltage signal; an inverter circuit configured to convert the DC voltage signal into an AC voltage signal; a sampling circuit configured to sample the AC voltage signal to obtain a current sampling signal or a voltage sampling signal; a pulse width modulation control chip configured to adjust a pulse width modulation signal until a voltage of the current sampling signal is equal to that of a reference current signal, or a voltage of the voltage sampling signal is equal to that of a reference voltage signal; a modulation circuit configured to modulate the power frequency AC voltage signal to obtain a modulation signal and output the pulse width modulation signal and the modulation signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A filament power supply for an electron accelerator, comprising:
a rectifier circuit configured to convert a power frequency AC voltage signal into a DC voltage signal;
an inverter circuit configured to convert the DC voltage signal into an AC voltage signal and output the AC voltage signal;
a sampling circuit configured to sample at least one of a current or a voltage of the AC voltage signal to obtain at least one of a current sampling signal or a voltage sampling signal;
a pulse width modulation control chip configured to adjust a duty cycle of a pulse width modulation signal output by the pulse width modulation control chip until a voltage of the current sampling signal is equal to that of a reference current signal, or a voltage of the voltage sampling signal is equal to that of a reference voltage signal; and
a modulation circuit configured to modulate the power frequency AC voltage signal according to the pulse width modulation signal to obtain a modulation signal and output the power frequency AC voltage signal and the modulation signal to the inverter circuit to trigger the inverter circuit to convert the DC voltage signal into the AC voltage signal.

2. The filament power supply according to claim 1 , wherein:
an absolute value of a difference between the voltage of the current sampling signal and the voltage of the reference current signal is a first value, and an absolute value of a difference between the voltage of the voltage sampling signal and the voltage of the reference voltage signal is a second value;
the pulse width modulation control chip is configured to adjust the duty cycle of the pulse width modulation signal until the voltage of the current sampling signal is equal to that of the reference current signal in a case where the first value is greater than the second value; and adjust the duty cycle of the pulse width modulation signal until the voltage of the voltage sampling signal is equal to that of the reference current signal in a case where the first value is less than the second value.

3. The filament power supply according to claim 1 , wherein a voltage of the power frequency AC voltage signal is a voltage between a first node and a second node;
the modulation circuit comprises:
a first sampling resistor, of which a first terminal is grounded, and a second terminal is connected to the first node via a first resistor;
a second sampling resistor, of which a first terminal is grounded, and a second terminal is connected to a first DC output terminal of the rectifier circuit via a second resistor;
a third sampling resistor, of which a first terminal of is grounded, and a second terminal is connected to the second node via a third resistor;
a first NAND gate, of which a first input terminal is connected to the second terminal of the first sampling resistor, a second input terminal is configured to receive a power supply voltage signal, a third input terminal is connected to the second terminal of the second sampling resistor, and an output terminal is configured to output the power frequency AC voltage signal;
a second NAND gate, of which a first input terminal is connected to the second terminal of the third sampling resistor, a second input terminal is configured to receive the power supply voltage signal, a third input terminal is connected to the second terminal of the second sampling resistor, and an output terminal is configured to output the power frequency AC voltage signal;
a third NAND gate, of which a first input terminal and a second input terminal are connected to the output terminal of the first NAND gate;
a fourth NAND gate, of which a first input terminal and a second input terminal are connected to the output terminal of the second NAND gate;
a fifth NAND gate, of which a first input terminal is connected to an output terminal of the third NAND gate, a second input terminal is configured to receive the pulse width modulation signal, and an output terminal is configured to output the modulation signal; and
a sixth NAND gate, of which a first input terminal is connected to an output terminal of the fourth NAND gate, a second input terminal is configured to receive the pulse width modulation signal, and an output terminal is configured to output the modulation signal.

4. The filament power supply according to claim 3 , wherein the output terminal of the first NAND gate is connected to a fourth input terminal of the second NAND gate, and the output terminal of the second NAND gate is connected to a fourth input terminal of the first NAND gate.

5. The filament power supply according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a soft start circuit configured to control the pulse width modulation control chip not to output the pulse width modulation signal in a case where neither the third NAND gate nor the fourth NAND gate outputs the modulation signal.

6. The filament power supply according to claim 5 , wherein the soft start circuit comprises:
a first diode, of which a first terminal is connected to the output terminal of the third NAND gate;
a second diode, of which a first terminal of the second diode is connected to the output terminal of the fourth NAND gate;
a first transistor, of which a control electrode is connected to a second terminal of the first diode and a second terminal of the second diode via a fourth resistor, and a first electrode is grounded;

a third diode, of which a first terminal is connected to a second electrode of the first transistor and connected, via a fifth resistor, to a first voltage terminal, and a second terminal is connected to a first port of the pulse width modulation control chip; and
a second transistor, of which a control electrode is connected to the second electrode of the first transistor via a sixth resistor, a first electrode is grounded, and a second electrode is connected to a second port of the pulse width modulation control chip.

7. The filament power supply according to claim 6 , wherein each of the first transistor and the second transistor comprises a bipolar transistor.

8. The filament power supply according to claim 3 , wherein the inverter circuit comprises:
a first switch, of which a control electrode is connected to the output terminal of the fifth NAND gate, a first electrode is connected to the first DC output terminal of the rectifier circuit, and a second electrode is connected to a first AC output terminal of the inverter circuit;
a second switch, of which a control electrode is connected to the output terminal of the sixth NAND gate, a first electrode is connected to the first AC output terminal of the inverter circuit, and a second electrode is connected to a second DC output terminal of the rectifier circuit;
a third switch, of which a control electrode is connected to the output terminal of the second NAND gate, a first electrode is connected to the first DC output terminal of the rectifier circuit, and a second electrode is connected to a second AC output terminal of the inverter circuit; and
a fourth switch, of which a control electrode is connected to the output terminal of the first NAND gate, a first electrode is connected to the second AC output terminal of the inverter circuit, and a second electrode is connected to the second DC output terminal of the rectifier circuit.

9. The filament power supply according to claim 8 , wherein each of the first switch, the second switch, the third switch, and the fourth switch comprises an insulated gate bipolar transistor.

10. The filament power supply according to claim 8 , further comprising at least one of a first protection circuit, a second protection circuit, a third protection circuit, or a fourth protection circuit, ea

Assignees

• Nuctech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Jinsheng
• Liu Yaohong
• Jia Wei
• Yan Xinshui
• Li Wei

Classifications

• H05H7/00 Primary

  Details of devices of the types covered by groups H05H9/00, H05H11/00, H05H13/00 · CPC title

• H01J2237/0473

  accelerating · CPC title

• H01J37/248

  Components associated with high voltage supply · CPC title

• H02H9/02

  responsive to excess current {(current limitation for voltage regulators G05F1/573; disconnection after limiting H02H3/025)} · CPC title

• H05H2007/022

  Pulsed systems · CPC title