Power supply apparatus with extending hold up time function

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9866106-B2
Application number	US-201615013237-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 2, 2016
Priority date	Jun 5, 2015
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

A power supply apparatus includes a bulk capacitor, a voltage dropper unit and a pre-charging capacitor. The voltage dropper unit is electrically connected to the bulk capacitor. The pre-charging capacitor is electrically connected to the voltage dropper unit. When the power supply apparatus receives an input direct current voltage, a voltage of the bulk capacitor is provided with a first voltage, and the pre-charging capacitor is charged so that the pre-charging capacitor is provided with a second voltage, and the second voltage is greater than the first voltage. When the voltage of the bulk capacitor is less than a predetermined voltage, the second voltage of the pre-charging capacitor is converted voltage by the voltage dropper unit to provide for extending a hold up time of the power supply apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power supply apparatus having a hold up time, the power supply apparatus comprising:
a bulk capacitor;
a pre-charging capacitor; and
a voltage dropper unit electrically connected between the bulk capacitor and the pre-charging capacitor,
wherein when the power supply apparatus receives an input direct current voltage, the bulk capacitor is provided with a first voltage, and the pre-charging capacitor is charged so that the pre-charging capacitor is provided with a second voltage, and the second voltage is greater than the first voltage;
wherein when the voltage of the bulk capacitor is less than a predetermined voltage, the voltage of the pre-charging capacitor is converted by the voltage dropper unit to supply to the bulk capacitor for extending the hold up time.

2. The power supply apparatus in claim 1 , wherein when the voltage of the bulk capacitor is less than the predetermined voltage, the voltage dropper unit converts the second voltage into the predetermined voltage to supply to the bulk capacitor.

3. The power supply apparatus in claim 1 , further comprising:
a first voltage detection unit electrically connected to the bulk capacitor,
wherein the first voltage detection unit is configured to detect the voltage of the bulk capacitor.

4. The power supply apparatus in claim 1 , further comprising:
a boost charging unit electrically connected to the pre-charging capacitor,
wherein when receiving the input voltage, the pre-charging capacitor is charged by the boost charging unit, so that the pre-charging capacitor is provided with the second voltage.

5. The power supply apparatus in claim 4 , further comprising:
a switch unit electrically connected between the pre-charging capacitor and the boost charging unit;
a control unit electrically connected to the switch unit; and
a second voltage detection unit electrically connected to the pre-charging capacitor and the control unit,
wherein the control unit obtains the voltage of the pre-charging capacitor through the second voltage detection unit, and turns on or turns off the switch unit according to the voltage of the pre-charging capacitor.

6. The power supply apparatus in claim 5 , wherein when receiving the input direct current voltage and when the voltage of the pre-charging capacitor is less than the second voltage, the control unit turns on the switch unit, so that the pre-charging capacitor is charged by the boost charging unit; when receiving the input direct current voltage and when the voltage of the pre-charging capacitor is greater than or equal to the second voltage, the control unit turns off the switch unit, so that the boost charging unit stops charging the pre-charging capacitor.

7. The power supply apparatus in claim 4 , further comprising:
an auxiliary power unit electrically connected to the boost charging unit,
wherein the auxiliary power unit provides the boost charging unit with an electric power for charging the pre-charging capacitor.

8. The power supply apparatus in claim 7 , wherein the boost charging unit comprises:
a diode electrically connected to the auxiliary power unit; and
a capacitor electrically connected between the diode and a ground terminal.

9. The power supply apparatus in claim 1 , further comprising:
a full bridge converter electrically connected to the bulk capacitor and the voltage dropper unit.

10. The power supply apparatus in claim 9 , further comprising:
a main transformer electrically connected to the full bridge converter; and
an output rectifier electrically connected to the main transformer.

11. The power supply apparatus in claim 9 , further comprising:
an electromagnetic interference filter electrically connected to the bulk capacitor, the voltage dropper unit and the full bridge converter; and
an inrush current limiter electrically connected to the electromagnetic interference filter.

Assignees

• Delta Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Hsu Cheng-Chan
• Chang Yi-Sheng

Classifications

• G06F1/30 Primary

  Means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption, e.g. power-supply fluctuations (for resetting only G06F1/24) · CPC title

• H02M3/22

  with intermediate conversion into AC · CPC title

• H02M2001/0096

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02M1/32 Primary

  Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection · CPC title

• H02M3/155

  using semiconductor devices only · CPC title