Device for regulating the intensity of the electric current in a receiver

• US 5,404,287 A
• Filed: 02/01/1993
• Issued: 04/04/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gaz D.E. Bordeaux, General Export Industries-Sogexi
• Original Assignee: Gaz D.E. Bordeaux
• Inventors: Poumey, Michel
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephan, Steven L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BERHANE, ADOLF D
• Application Number:
  US08/011,945
• Time in Patent Office: 792 Days
• Field of Search: 363/21, 363/37, 363/97, 363/131, 363/132, 315/200 R
• US Class Current: 363/21.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/335 using semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 39/045 with high-frequency bridge converters H05B39/048 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 41/2881 Load circuits; Control thereof
• 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

A device for regulating the intensity of an electric current in a receiver has a primary circuit containing a rectifier bridge connected across the terminals of a main power supply, thus defining a positive terminal and a negative terminal on the bridge after rectification. The positive and negative terminals are connected in series to a high-speed on/off switch and a parallel resonant circuit. The parallel resonant circuit includes an inductor and a capacitor connected in parallel. The device also includes a secondary circuit coupled magnetically to the primary circuit. The secondary circuit is connected in series with the receiver whose intensity it is desired to regulate.

Claims

1. A device for regulating the intensity of an electric current in a receiver, comprising:

a primary circuit containing a first rectifier bridge connected across the terminals of a main power supply thereby defining a positive terminal and a negative terminal on said first rectifier bridge after rectification, said positive and negative terminals of said first rectifier bridge being connected in series to a high-speed on/off switch and a parallel resonant circuit, said resonant circuit including in parallel a first inductor and a first capacitor, said on/off switch being a semiconductor switch capable of being closed for a predetermined amount of time d, said time d being governed by a monostable circuit and a synchronizing circuit, said synchronizing circuit controlling the triggering of said monostable circuit upon detection of a threshold value, said time d further being dependant on a control circuit for receiving input data to set said predetermined amount of time d within a preselected range;

a secondary circuit containing the receiver and a second inductor connected across the terminals of the receiver, said first and second inductors being proximate each other so that said secondary circuit is magnetically coupled to said primary circuit in the absence of any magnetic circuit.

2. The device according to claim 1 wherein power delivered to said secondary circuit is governed by the predetermined closing time d of said semi-conductor switch.

3. The device according to claim 1 wherein said secondary circuit further includes a capacitor connected in parallel with said second inductor, the values of the secondary circuit capacitor and second inductor being matched so that said secondary circuit resonates at the operating frequency of said primary circuit in such a manner as to transmit maximum power to the receiver.

4. The device according to claim 1 wherein said primary circuit further includes a second capacitor being shunt-mounted to filter high-frequency components generated by said parallel resonant circuit thereby avoiding any risk of transferring these high-frequency components to the main power supply.

5. The device according to claim 4 wherein said second capacitor of the primary circuit is connected in parallel between either said positive and negative terminals of said first rectifier bridge or between the terminals of the main power supply.

6. The device according to claim 1 wherein said secondary circuit further includes a second rectifier bridge having a positive terminal and a negative terminal after rectification, a third capacitor, and a motor, said third capacitor and motor being connected in parallel across said positive and negative terminals of said second rectifier bridge.

7. The device according to claim 1 wherein said threshold value is a predetermined value of the voltage across the terminals of said semi-conductor switch.