Display apparatus with power supply having a power saving mode

• US 20030076316A1
• Filed: 06/12/2002
• Published: 04/24/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Ho-woong
• Granted Patent: US 6,822,646 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/212
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0006 Arrangements for supplying an adequate voltage to the control circuit of converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0032 Control circuits allowing low power mode operation, e.g. in standby mode
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33523 with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/10 Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a power supply comprising a commercial AC power supplying part, a transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil and supplying an AC voltage to driving circuits, and a feedback voltage sensing part sensing a load of the secondary coil. The power supply further includes a power mode information part outputting information for determining a normal mode or a power saving mode according to an input of a synchronous signal. The power supply also includes a power driving part including a power driver generating a power regulating signal according to a synchronous signal on the basis of a feedback voltage sensed by the feedback voltage sensing part at the normal mode, and an idle power driver generating a power saving voltage on the basis of a synchronous signal which is made by synthesizing different frequency signals at the power saving mode; an idle switching part turning on/off the idle power driver. In addition, the power supply includes a control part cutting off the feedback voltage applied to the power driver and controlling the idle switching part so as to operate the idle power driver in the power saving mode. In the power saving mode, power consumption is minimized by driving a power driving part with a synthetic synchronous signal, securing a stable operation of a control part and the power driving part.

Claims

1. A display apparatus having a power supply including a commercial AC power supplying part, a transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil and supplying an AC voltage to driving circuits, and a feedback voltage sensing part sensing a load of the secondary coil, and comprising:

a power mode information part outputting information for determining a normal mode or a power saving mode according to an input of a synchronous signal;

a power driving part including a power driver generating a power regulating signal according to a synchronous signal on the basis of a feedback voltage sensed by the feedback voltage sensing part in the normal mode, and an idle power driver generating a power saving voltage on the basis of a synchronous signal which is made by synthesizing different frequency signals in the power saving mode;

an idle switching part turning on/off the idle power driver; and

a control part cutting off the feedback voltage applied to the power driver and controlling the idle switching part so as to operate the idle power driver in the power saving mode.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the power driving part includes a power transistor connected to the primary coil, and the idle power driver includes a plurality of sawtooth generators respectively generating sawtooth signals of several tens of hertz and several tens of kilohertz, a plurality of comparators processing the sawtooth signals and outputting square wave signals having different pulse widths, and an AND gate logically synthesizing the square wave signals outputted from the comparators and supplying the synthetic square wave signal to the power transistor.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an OR gate provided between the power driver and the power transistor, logically OR-ing output signals of the power driver and the idle power driver, and supplying the resultant signal to the power transistor.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the sawtooth generator generating the sawtooth signal of several tens of hertz is driven on the basis of the DC voltage of the primary coil, and the sawtooth generator generating the sawtooth signal of several tens of kilohertz is driven on the basis of the driving voltage of the power driving part.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the power driving part further includes an inverter provided between the power driver and the AND gate so as to suspend the operation of the idle power driver in the normal mode, and the power driving part outputs a power-saving off signal to the AND gate through the inverter when the power saving mode changes to the normal mode.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the idle switching part includes a photocoupler and a power-saving off transistor turned on together with the photocoupler and cutting off the DC voltage supplied to the comparator receiving the several tens of hertz sawtooth signal.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the power driving part further includes a feedback voltage regulating part transmitting a feedback regulating signal after comparing a voltage sensed by a sensing resistor with a feedback voltage sensed by the feedback voltage sensing part, and

the idle switching part further includes a feedback-cutoff transistor operating contrary to the power-saving off transistor and cutting on/off the feedback voltage supplied to the feedback voltage regulating part.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the control part outputs a load-off signal for switching off a connection between the secondary coil and each driving circuit after operating the idle switching part after a predetermined time lapse at the beginning of the power saving mode.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the control part turns off the idle switching part after connecting the secondary coil with each driving circuit when the power saving mode changes to the normal mode.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the power mode information part includes a video card turning on/off the synchronous signal applied to the power driver according to the normal mode or the power saving mode.

11. A power supply for a display apparatus, comprising:

a power driving part receiving a synchronous signal and comprising;

a power driver generating a power regulating signal according to a synchronous signal on the basis of a feedback voltage sensed by a feedback voltage sensing part in a normal mode; and

an idle power driver generating a power saving voltage on the basis of a synchronous signal which is made by synthesizing different frequency signals in the power saving mode;

an idle switching part, coupled to the power driving part, turning on/off the idle power driver; and

a control part, coupled to the idle switching part, cutting off the feedback voltage applied to the power driver and controlling the idle switching part so as to operate the idle power driver in the power saving mode.

12. The power supply as in claim 11, wherein the power driving part comprises a power transistor connected to a primary coil of the power supply, and the idle power driver comprises:

a plurality of sawtooth generators respectively generating sawtooth signals;

a plurality of comparators processing the sawtooth signals and outputting square wave signals, each of the square wave signals having pulse widths different than the other of the square wave signals; and

an AND gate logically synthesizing the square wave signals and transmitting the resultant, synthetic square wave signal to the power transistor.

13. The power supply as in claim 12, further comprising an OR gate provided between the power driver and the power transistor and logically OR-ing signals output by the power driver and the idle power driver, and supplying the resultant signals to the power transistor.

14. The power supply as in claim 12, wherein the sawtooth generator generating one of the sawtooth signals is driven on the basis of a DC voltage drop across the primary coil, and the sawtooth generator generating another of the sawtooth signals is driven on the basis of the driving voltage of the power driving part.

15. The power supply as in claim 12, wherein the power driving part further comprising an inverter provided between the power driver and the AND gate so as to suspend the operation of the idle power driver in the normal mode, and the power driving part outputs a power-saving off signal to the AND gate through the inverter when the power saving mode changes to a normal mode.

16. The power supply as in claim 14, wherein the idle switching part comprising a photocoupler and a power-saving off transistor turned on together with the photocoupler and cutting off the DC voltage supplied to the comparator receiving the one of the sawtooth signals.

17. The power supply according to claim 16, wherein the power driving part further comprising a feedback voltage regulating part transmitting a feedback regulating signal after comparing a voltage sensed by a sensing resistor with a feedback voltage sensed by the feedback voltage sensing part;

and wherein the idle switching part further comprising a feedback-cutoff transistor operating opposite to the power-saving off transistor and cutting on/off the feedback voltage supplied to the feedback voltage regulating part.

18. The power supply according to claim 17, wherein the control part outputs a load-off signal for switching off a connection between a secondary coil and each of driving circuits after operating the idle switching part after a predetermined time lapse at the beginning of the power saving mode.

19. The power supply according to claim 18, wherein the control part turns off the idle switching part after connecting the secondary coil with each of the driving circuits when the power saving mode changes to a normal mode.

20. The power supply according to claim 11, wherein the synchronous signal is received from a video card.

21. A method of a power supply for a display apparatus, comprising:

receiving by a power driving part a synchronous signal;

generating by a power driver a power regulating signal according to a synchronous signal on the basis of a feedback voltage sensed by a feedback voltage sensing part in a normal mode;

cutting off the feedback voltage applied to the power driver in the power saving mode; and

generating a power saving voltage on the basis of a synchronous signal which is made by synthesizing different frequency signals in the power saving mode.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein generating the power saving voltage is performed by an idle power driver.

23. The method according to claim 22, wherein the idle power driver is turned off/on according to the normal mode and the power saving mode by an idle power switching part.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein the operation of the idle power switching part is controlled by a control part.

25. The method according to claim 21, wherein the cutting off the feedback voltage is performed by the control part.