CONTROL CIRCUIT OF POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

• US 20130294125A1
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Electric Company Limited (Fuji Electric Systems Company Limited)
• Inventors: CHEN, Jian
• Granted Patent: US 9,160,250 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/89
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/4225 using a non-isolated boost converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/217 using semiconductor devices only
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 80/10 Efficient use of energy, e.g. using compressed air or pressurized fluid as energy carrier

Abstract

Aspects of the invention provide an error amplifier that can compare a feedback voltage of an output voltage with a reference voltage to produce a resulting error signal in cooperation with a phase compensating circuit. In some aspects of the invention, an AC detecting circuit makes a decision as to whether a detected input voltage signal is that of a 100 Vac system or that of a 200 Vac system to change the gain of the error amplifier according to the result of the decision. When the voltage signal Vis is lower than the threshold voltage established beforehand, for making the transient response speed of the phase compensating circuit faster, the AC detecting circuit increases the gain of the error amplifier. When the voltage signal is higher than the threshold voltage established beforehand, for making a power factor higher, the AC detecting circuit decreases the gain of the error amplifier.

Claims

1. A control circuit of a power supply system converting a rectified AC input voltage to a DC output voltage comprising:

an error signal producing unit detecting the DC output voltage and outputting a signal into which the difference voltage between the detected DC output voltage and a reference voltage is amplified;

a phase compensating unit producing an error signal in cooperation with the error signal producing unit; and

an input voltage detecting unit detecting the AC input voltage and outputting a control signal with the level thereof corresponding to the magnitude of the detected AC input voltage to change the gain in the error signal producing unit by the outputted control signal.

2. The control circuit of a power supply system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the input voltage detecting unit increases the gain of the error signal producing unit when deciding that the AC input voltage is the voltage of a low voltage system and decreases the gain of the error signal producing unit when deciding that the AC input voltage is the voltage of a high voltage system.

3. The control circuit of a power supply system as claimed in claim 1 wherein when the detected AC input voltage is lower than a threshold voltage during a half period of the AC input voltage, the input voltage detecting unit decides that the AC input voltage is the voltage of a low voltage system, and when the detected AC input voltage is sometimes higher than the threshold voltage during a half period of the AC input voltage, the input voltage detecting unit decides that the AC input voltage is the voltage of a high voltage system.

4. The control circuit of a power supply system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the error signal producing unit is a voltage to current converting amplifier circuit.

5. The control circuit of a power supply system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a multiplication of the error signal and the detected AC input voltage is carried out and, on the basis of the result of the multiplication, on-off control of a switching device combining the AC input voltage and the DC output voltage is carried out.

6. The control circuit of a power supply system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a comparison is carried out between the error signal and a carrier signal outputted from an oscillation circuit and, on the basis of the result of the comparison, on-off control of a switching device combining the AC input voltage and the DC output voltage is carried out.

7. The control circuit of a power supply system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the error signal producing unit comprises:

a constant current source;

a first and second current branches sharing a constant current from the constant current source according to the magnitude of the detected DC output voltage and the magnitude of the reference voltage;

a first transistor of a P-channel type in which a first current flows between the drain and the source thereof with an amount proportional to the amount of a current flowing in the first current branch;

a second transistor of a P-channel type in which a second current flows between the drain and the source thereof with an amount proportional to the amount of the current flowing in the first current branch;

a third transistor of an N-channel type in which a third current flows between the drain and the source thereof with an amount proportional to the amount of a current flowing in the second current branch;

a fourth transistor of an N-channel type in which a fourth current flows between the drain and the source thereof with an amount proportional to the amount of the current flowing in the second current branch; and

an output control unit producing the error signal from a first current signal flowing through a first connection point and a second current signal flowing through a second connection point on the basis of the level of a control signal for gain changing outputted from the input voltage detecting unit, and outputting the produced error signal, the first connection point being the connection point of the drain of the first transistor and the drain of the third transistor and the second connection point being the connection point of the drain of the second transistor and the drain of the fourth transistor,

when the detected DC output voltage is higher than the reference voltage, makes a current larger than a current flowing in the first current branch flow on the second current branch side, and

when the detected DC output voltage is lower than the reference voltage, makes a current larger than a current flowing in the second current branch flow on the first current branch side, and

the output control unit, when recognizing from the level of the control signal that the detected AC input voltage is higher than the threshold voltage, outputs the first current signal, being the difference obtained by subtracting the third current flowing in the third transistor from the first current flowing in the first transistor, as the error signal, and when recognizing that the detected AC input voltage is lower than the threshold voltage, outputting a current signal, being the sum obtained by adding the second current signal, being the difference obtained by subtracting the fourth current flowing in the fourth transistor from the second current flowing in the second transistor, to the first current signal, as the error signal.