POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20130262886A1
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: NISHIMURA, Seiichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,990,595 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/26 Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof for memories G11C

Abstract

A power supply control device includes an always powered section and a selectively powered section. The always powered section includes a switch determining whether or not to supply external power to the selectively powered section, a first memory circuit storing information for turning on/off the switch, and a second memory circuit storing information on a change in a main power supply switch. The selectively powered section includes a power supply circuit supplying power to the device body, a non-volatile memory configured to storing information on an on/off-state of the device body, and a control section changing the information in the first memory circuit in accordance with the information in the non-volatile memory and the second memory circuit.

Claims

1. A power supply control device controlling power supplied to an device body, the device comprising:

an always powered section coupled to an external power supply; and

a selectively powered section to which external power is supplied from the always powered section while the device body operates, wherein

the always powered section includes

a switch configured to determine whether or not to supply the external power to the selectively powered section,

a first memory circuit configured to store information for turning on/off the switch, and to set the information to information for turning on the switch when supply of the external power to the always powered section starts or when a main power supply switch for booting the device body is depressed, and

a second memory circuit configured to store information on an on/off change of the main power supply switch, and to store information that there is no on/off change of the main power supply switch when the supply of the external power to the always powered section starts,

the switch is turned on/off in accordance with the information in the first memory circuit,

the selectively powered section includes

a power supply circuit configured to generate the power from the external power supplied from the always powered section, and to supply the generated power to the device body,

a non-volatile memory configured to store information on an on/off-state of the device body, and

a control section configured to operate on the supplied power, to determine the on/off-state of the device body based on the information stored in the non-volatile memory and the information stored in the second memory circuit, and to change the information in the first memory circuit in accordance with a determination result.

2. The power supply control device of claim 1, wherein

the first and second memory circuits are flip-flops.