Plasma television and power supply circuit

• US 20080068367A1
• Filed: 09/17/2007
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Takahiro
• Application Number:
  US11/901,429
• Publication Number:
  US 20080068367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/211
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/026 Arrangements or methods related to booting a display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/028 Generation of voltages supplied to electrode drivers in a matrix display other than LCD
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/296 Driving circuits for producing the waveforms applied to the driving electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33523 with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop

Abstract

The present invention discloses a power supply circuit initiating an oscillation on a primary side of the power supply circuit upon receipt of a startup signal, comprising: a detecting module receiving an output voltage from the power supply circuit for detecting whether the output voltage is below a predetermined voltage; a power supply switching module turning OFF a main power supply of the power supply circuit when the detecting module determines the output voltage to be below the predetermined voltage; and a detection invalidating module invalidating the detecting of the detecting module from the receipt of the predetermined startup signal to the output voltage becomes above or equal the predetermined voltage.

Claims

1. Plasma television having a sustain voltage generator initiating an oscillation on a primary side of the sustain voltage generator upon inputting thereto of a startup signal and taking a predetermined time until a sustain voltage from a secondary side of the sustain voltage generator becomes an ordinary voltage after the oscillation is started, for displaying on a screen a video image based on a video signal input thereto, comprising:

a rectifier circuit supplied with an AC voltage for generating a DC voltage;

an address voltage generator having the DC voltage input to a primary address winding of a transformer and generating an address voltage in a secondary address winding for outputting the address voltage to a plasma display panel;

the sustain voltage generator having the DC voltage input to a primary sustain winding of a transformer and generating the sustain voltage and a monitor voltage, that are out put through conductors located in different tap positions of a secondary sustain winding and different in voltage level, for outputting the sustain voltage to the plasma display panel and the monitor voltage to outside;

a stand-by voltage generator having the DC voltage input to a primary stand-by winding of a transformer for generating a first erase voltage, a second erase voltage, and a scan voltage, that are output from conductors located in different tap positions of a secondary stand-by winding and being different in voltage level, for outputting the stand-by voltages to the plasma display panel;

a detector circuit including first voltage dividing resistors having first end supplied with the monitor voltage, a dividing point generating an inspection voltage and second end grounded;

a relay circuit for switching between turning ON and OFF of the AC voltage to the rectifier circuit;

a microcomputer for instructing the relay circuit to switch to turning OFF the AC voltage to the rectifier circuit when the inspection voltage input at an Analog/Digital (A/D) terminal is lower than a predetermined voltage; and

a detection invalidating circuit configured to comprise;

second voltage dividing resistors having first end supplied with an externally supplied constant voltage equal to or above a predetermined voltage, a dividing point connected to the A/D terminal of the microcomputer and second end grounded;

third voltage dividing resistors having first end grounded;

a zener diode having an anode connected with second end of the third voltage dividing resistors and a cathode supplied with the sustain voltage, the zener diode broken down under the sustain voltage after elapse of a predetermined time from the start of the oscillation; and

a transistor having a collector connected with a voltage dividing point of the second voltage dividing resistors, a base connected with a voltage dividing point of the third voltage dividing resistors, and an emitter grounded.

2. A power supply circuit initiating an oscillation on a primary side of the power supply circuit upon receipt of a startup signal, comprising:

a detecting module receiving an output voltage from the power supply circuit for detecting whether the output voltage is below a predetermined voltage;

a power supply switching module turning OFF a main power supply of the power supply circuit when the detecting module determines the output voltage to be below the predetermined voltage; and

a detection invalidating module invalidating the detecting of the detecting module from the receipt of the predetermined startup signal to the output voltage becomes above or equal the predetermined voltage.

3. The power supply circuit as set forth in claim 2 wherein:

the detecting module has first voltage dividing resistors having first end supplied with the output voltage and second end grounded and detects the output voltage to be below the predetermined voltage when a voltage at a voltage dividing point of the first voltage dividing resistors is below the predetermined voltage, and

the detection invalidating module is configured to include second voltage dividing resistors having first end supplied with an externally supplied constant voltage equal to or above the predetermined voltage and second end grounded, third voltage dividing resistors having first end grounded, a zener diode having an anode connected to second end of the third voltage dividing resistors and a cathode supplied with the output voltage, the zener diode yielding under the output voltage after elapse of a predetermined time from the start of the oscillation, and a transistor having a collector connected with a voltage dividing point of the second voltage dividing resistors, a base connected with a voltage dividing point of the third voltage dividing resistors, and an emitter grounded, the voltage dividing point of the first voltage dividing resistors and the voltage dividing point of the second voltage dividing resistors are connected with each other.