Power supply device and image forming apparatus having the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10892685-B2
Application number	US-201716325675-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 16, 2017
Priority date	Aug 16, 2016
Publication date	Jan 12, 2021
Grant date	Jan 12, 2021

Abstract

A power supply device is provided. The power supply device includes an AC/DC converter configured to convert an input AC power into a first DC power having a predetermined size, and to output the first DC power, a DC/DC converter configured to convert the first DC power into a second DC power according to an enable signal, and a switch including a soft switch connected to the first DC power at one end, and configured to, in response to the soft switch being turned on, voltage-distribute the first DC power, and to provide the voltage-distributed first DC power to the DC/DC converter as an enable signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A power supply device, comprising:
an AC/DC converter to convert an input AC power into a first DC power having a predetermined size, and to output the first DC power;
a DC/DC converter to convert the first DC power into a second DC power; and
a switch including a soft switch and a resistor part, the soft switch connected to the first DC power at a first end of the soft switch and to the resistor part at a second end of the soft switch, and the resistor part, in response to the soft switch being turned on, to voltage-distribute the first DC power to provide the voltage-distributed first DC power to the DC/DC converter as an enable signal in a standby state of an apparatus to cause the DC/DC converter to convert the first DC power into the second DC power.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the switch, when the soft switch is turned off after the enable signal is provided, maintains the enable signal and provides the enable signal to the DC/DC converter.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein,
the soft switch is to selectively output the first DC power according to a user operation of the soft switch to be turned on; and
the switch comprises:
the resistor part including a first resistor and a second resistor connected in series;
a first switch to selectively provide the first DC power to the resistor part according to the operation of the soft switch;
a second switch to selectively provide the first DC power to the resistor part according to a control signal; and
an AND logical device to receive a first control signal and a second control signal, and to provide a logical multiplier of the first control signal and the second control signal as the control signal to the second switch,
wherein an intermediate node between the first resistor and the second resistor is connected to an enable signal input of the DC/DC converter to input the enable signal to the DC/DC converter.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the soft switch is a normal closed type of push switch which is turned on only when a push by the user as the user operation of the soft switch is received.

5. The device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the first switch is a first transistor which includes a collector connected to the first DC power, a base connected to another end of the soft switch via resistance, and an emitter connected to one end of the first resistance, and
wherein the second switch is a second transistor which includes a collector connected to the first DC power, a base connected to an output of the AND logical device, and an emitter connected to one end of the first resistance.

6. The device as claimed in claim 3 , further comprising:
a micom to operate using the second DC power, and to output a first control signal corresponding to an operation state of the apparatus; and
a resetting unit to operate using the second DC power, and to, in response to receiving the DC power, output a reset signal to a second control signal.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the micom is to determine an operation state of the apparatus, and to, in response to the determined operation state being the standby state, output a first control signal of a low value.

8. The device as claimed in claim 6 , further comprising:
a second battery unit to supply a charged power to the micom, the resetting unit and the soft switch.

9. The device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the micom controls the AC/DC converter to selectively output a first DC power according to a power charging state of the second battery unit.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the AC/DC converter comprises:
an input unit to receive an AC power;
an AC filter unit to filter the received AC power;
a first rectifier to rectify an AC power filtered in the AC filter unit;
a transformer to transform an output voltage of the first rectifier;
a second rectifier to rectify an output voltage of the transformer;
a controller to selectively supply an output voltage of the first rectifier to a first winding of the transformer in response to an output voltage of the second rectifier; and
a photo coupler to provide a signal corresponding to an output voltage of the second rectifier to the controller.

11. The device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the AC/DC converter further comprises a relay part which selectively transfers the input AC power to the first rectifier.

12. The device as claimed in claim 10 , further comprising:
a feedback controller to vary a size of current provided to the photo coupler according to an operation state of the apparatus and provide the varied current.

13. The device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the feedback controller, in a normal state, provides current to the photo coupler using a first resistance, and in a standby state, provides current to the photo coupler using a second resistance which is larger than the first resistance.

14. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a power supply to selectively supply power to the image forming apparatus according to a standby state of the image forming apparatus;
a communicator to receive print data;
an image former to print the received print data; and
a processor to, in response to receiving print data via the communicator, control the image former to print the received print data,
wherein the power supply is to,
supply a DC power to a DC/DC converter, and to a soft switch coupled to a resistor part, to cause the soft switch to be operable according to a turn-on operation of the soft switch to transfer the DC power to the resistor part to cause a voltage distribution of the DC power as an enable signal to the DC/DC converter in the standby state, the DC/DC converter operable according to the enable signal provided through the soft switch in the standby state, and
supply power to the communicator, the image former and the processor by providing the enable signal to the DC/DC converter through the soft switch according to the turn-on operation of the soft switch.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the power supply comprises:
an AC/DC converter to convert an input AC power into a first DC power having a predetermined size, and to output the first DC power as the DC power to the DC/DC converter;
the DC/DC converter is to convert the first DC power into a second DC power according to the enable signal and output the second DC power to the communicator, the image former and the processor; and
a switch including the soft switch, a first end of the soft switch connected to the first DC power, and a second end of the soft switch connected to the resistor part, and the turn-on operation of the soft switch to cause the voltage distribution of the first DC power.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Development Co

Inventors

• Jeong An-Sik
• Jung Hong-Ki

Classifications

• G03G15/5004 Primary

  Power supply control, e.g. power-saving mode, automatic power turn-off · CPC title

• H02M3/33507 Primary

  with automatic control of the output voltage or current, e.g. flyback converters (H02M3/33561, H02M3/33569 take precedence) · CPC title

• H02M1/0032

  Control circuits allowing low power mode operation, e.g. in standby mode · CPC title

• H02M1/0003

  Details of control, feedback or regulation circuits · CPC title

• H02M1/007

  Plural converter units in cascade (push-pull DC/DC converters with pre-regulator H02M3/3374; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC stage including a high frequency transformer H02M7/4807; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC conversion stage generating periodically varying voltages H02M7/4826) · CPC title