POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, LUMINAIRE, AND POWER SUPPLYING METHOD

• US 20140077717A1
• Filed: 03/07/2013
• Published: 03/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: OTAKE, Hirokazu, Ooto, Katsuya
• Application Number:
  US13/788,136
• Publication Number:
  US 20140077717A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/224
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 5/00 Systems for regulating electric variables by detecting deviations in the electric input to the system and thereby controlling a device within the system to obtain a regulated output
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/3725 Switched mode power supply [SMPS]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/50 responsive to malfunctions or undesirable behaviour of LEDs; responsive to LED life; Protective circuits
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/30 Semiconductor lamps, e.g. solid state lamps [SSL] light emitting diodes [LED] or organic LED [OLED]

Abstract

In a power supply device 1 including a switching element 12 and a control section 11 configured to control the switching element 12, the control section 11 receives an input of a first signal fluctuating according to an output voltage of the power supply device 1 and fixed with respect to an input voltage of the power supply device 1 and a second signal, the amplitude of which fluctuates according to the input voltage of the power supply device 1, and controls ON or OFF of the switching element 12 according to time until a value of the second signal reaches a value of the first signal.

Claims

1. A power supply device comprising:

a switching element; and

a control section configured to control the switching element, wherein

the control section receives an input of a first signal fixed with respect to an input voltage of the power supply device and a second signal, amplitude of which fluctuates according to the input voltage of the power supply device, and controls ON or OFF of the switching element according to time until a value of the second signal reaches a value of the first signal.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the control section turns on the switching element at a predetermined period and, if the input voltage is a second input voltage larger than a first input voltage, sets time from timing when the switching element is turned on until timing when the switching element is turned off shorter than the time set when the input voltage is the first input voltage.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein

the second signal is a lamp waveform, and

a gradient of the lamp waveform is larger when the input voltage is the second input voltage than when the input voltage is the first input voltage.

4. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a forming section connected to the control section and configured to form the second signal on the basis of the input voltage and input the second signal to the control section.

5. The device according to claim 4, further comprising an input section to which the input voltage is input, wherein

the forming section includes:

a resistor, one end of which is connected to the input section;

a capacitor, one end of which is connected to the other end of the resistor and the other end of which is connected to a ground; and

another switching element, a collector terminal of which is connected to a connection line for the resistor and the capacitor and an emitter terminal of which is connected to the ground.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the control section includes:

a driving section configured to output a pulse width modulation signal for turning on or off the switching element;

a comparator, a non-inverting input terminal of which is connected to the connection line for the resistor and the capacitor and an inverting input terminal of which is connected to an output terminal of an error amplifier that outputs the first signal; and

a flip-flop, to a set terminal of which a predetermined periodic signal is input and a reset terminal of which is connected to an output terminal of the comparator, a Q bar terminal of which is connected to a base terminal of the other switching element, and Q terminal of which is connected to the driving section.

7. A luminaire comprising:

a light-emitting element; and

a power supply device including a switching element configured to adjust supplied power to the light-emitting element and a control section configured to control the switching element, wherein

the control section receives an input of a first signal fixed with respect to an input voltage of the power supply device and a second signal, amplitude of which fluctuates according to the input voltage of the power supply device, and controls ON or OFF of the switching element according to time until a value of the second signal reaches a value of the first signal.

8. The luminaire according to claim 7, further comprising:

a detecting section configured to detect an electric current flowing to the light-emitting element or a voltage applied to the light-emitting element; and

an error detecting section configured to receive an input of a detection signal detected by the detecting section, compare the detection signal and a fixed threshold to thereby generate the first signal, and input the first signal to the control section.

9. The luminaire according to claim 8, wherein the control section turns on the switching element at a predetermined period and, if the input voltage is a second input voltage larger than a first input voltage, sets time from timing when the switching element is turned on until timing when the switching element is turned off shorter than the time set when the input voltage is the first input voltage.

10. The luminaire according to claim 9, wherein

the second signal is a lamp waveform, and

a gradient of the lamp waveform is larger when the input voltage is the second input voltage than when the input voltage is the first input voltage.

11. The luminaire according to claim 8, further comprising a forming section connected to the control section and configured to form the second signal on the basis of the input voltage and input the second signal to the control section.

12. The luminaire according to claim 11, further comprising an input section to which the input voltage is input, wherein

the forming section includes:

a resistor, one end of which is connected to the input section;

a capacitor, one end of which is connected to the other end of the resistor and the other end of which is connected to a ground; and

another switching element, a collector terminal of which is connected to a connection line for the resistor and the capacitor and an emitter terminal of which is connected to the ground.

13. The luminaire according to claim 12, wherein the control section includes:

a driving section configured to output a pulse width modulation signal for turning on or off the switching element;

a comparator, a non-inverting input terminal of which is connected to the connection line for the resistor and the capacitor and an inverting input terminal of which is connected to an output terminal of an error amplifier that outputs the first signal; and

a flip-flop, to a set terminal of which a predetermined periodic signal is input and a reset terminal of which is connected to an output terminal of the comparator, a Q bar terminal of which is connected to a base terminal of the other switching element, and Q terminal of which is connected to the driving section.

14. A power supplying method in a power supply device that controls a switching element and controls supplied power to a light-emitting element, the power supplying method comprising controlling ON or OFF of the switching element according to time until a value of a second signal, amplitude of which fluctuates according to an input signal of the power supply device, reaches a value of a first signal fixed with respect to the input voltage of the power supply device.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

detecting an electric current flowing to the light-emitting element or a voltage applied to the light-emitting element; and

comparing a detection signal of the detection and a fixed threshold to thereby generate the first signal.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein, in the control of the switching element, the switching element is turned on at a predetermined period and, if the input voltage is a second input voltage larger than a first input voltage, time from timing when the switching element is turned on until timing when the switching element is turned off is set shorter than the time set when the input voltage is the first input voltage.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein

the second signal is a lamp waveform, and

a gradient of the lamp waveform is larger when the input voltage is the second input voltage than when the input voltage is the first input voltage.

18. The method according to claim 15, wherein the second signal is formed on the basis of the input voltage before the control of the switching element.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein, in the formation of the second signal, another switching element is turned on or off and charging in a capacitor and discharging from the capacitor by the input voltage are repeated, whereby the second signal is formed.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein

in the formation of the second signal, the other switching element is turned off at a predetermined period and the charging in the capacitor is started and, if the second signal is equal to or higher than the first signal, the discharging from the capacitor is started, and

in the control of the switching element, the switching element is turned on at the predetermined period and, if the second signal is equal to or higher than the first signal, to form the switching element.