OPEN LOOP POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS

• US 20150055376A1
• Filed: 08/21/2013
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Chicony Electronics Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Chicony Electronics Company Limited)
• Inventors: HUANG, Wen-Nan, LEE, Shiu-Hui
• Application Number:
  US13/972,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20150055376A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/21.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/01 Resonant DC/DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33569 having several active switching elements H02M3/3353 takes precedence
• 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

An open loop power conversion apparatus is applied to a load apparatus and an input power. The open loop power conversion apparatus outputs a predetermined voltage to the load apparatus. The open loop power conversion apparatus includes a resonant inductor, a magnetic inductor, a resonant capacitor, and a transformer. The resonant inductor has a non-uniform air gap. An inductance of the resonant inductor is decreasing when a current outputted from the open loop power conversion apparatus to the load apparatus is increasing. An output voltage gain of the open loop power conversion apparatus is increasing, so that the predetermined voltage is increasing.

Claims

1. An open loop power conversion apparatus applied to a load apparatus and an input power, the open loop power conversion apparatus outputting a predetermined voltage to the load apparatus, the open loop power conversion apparatus comprising:

a resonant inductor having a non-uniform air gap;

a magnetic inductor electrically connected to the resonant inductor;

a resonant capacitor electrically connected to the magnetic inductor; and

a transformer having a transformer primary side and a transformer secondary side, the transformer primary side electrically connected to the resonant inductor, the magnetic inductor and the resonant capacitor, the transformer secondary side electrically connected to the load apparatus,

wherein an inductance of the resonant inductor is decreasing and an output voltage gain of the open loop power conversion apparatus is increasing when a current outputted from the open loop power conversion apparatus to the load apparatus is increasing;

whereby the predetermined voltage is increasing.

2. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 1, further including a first switch unit electrically connected to the input power and the resonant inductor.

3. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 2, further including a second switch unit electrically connected to the input power, the resonant inductor, the first switch unit and the resonant capacitor.

4. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 3, further including a switch control unit electrically connected to the first switch unit and the second switch unit.

5. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 4, further including a first diode electrically connected to the transformer secondary side and the load apparatus.

6. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 5, further including an output side capacitor electrically connected to the first diode, the load apparatus and the transformer secondary side.

7. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 6, wherein the transformer further includes an auxiliary winding electrically connected to the transformer secondary side, the output side capacitor and the load apparatus.

8. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 7, further including a second diode electrically connected to the auxiliary winding, the first diode, the output side capacitor and the load apparatus.

9. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 8, wherein the first switch unit is a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor, an insulation gate bipolar transistor, a silicon controlled rectifier or a bipolar junction transistor;

the second switch unit is a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor, an insulation gate bipolar transistor, a silicon controlled rectifier or a bipolar junction transistor.

10. The open loop power conversion apparatus in claim 9, wherein the transformer is a flyback transformer, a forward transformer, an inductor-inductor-capacitor resonant transformer or a push pull transformer.