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Power supply

  • US 5,528,484 A
  • Filed: 09/13/1994
  • Issued: 06/18/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/14/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A power supply comprising a full wave ac-to-dc rectifier, a reservoir capacitor connected permanently in current conductive relationship across the dc side of the rectifier, an inverter stage comprising a solid state switching device and an oscillator connected in circuit with the reservoir capacitor, the oscillator being connected in circuit with the switching device, being arranged to generate a gating signal at a frequency significantly greater than that of the voltage waveform across the rectifier and being arranged to apply the gating signal to the switching device, the reservoir capacitor having a capacitance value which causes the successive half-cycles of the voltage waveform across the dc side of the rectifier to have a minimum instantaneous value which is greater than zero but small relative to the maximum instantaneous value of the voltage waveform, and the switching device being arranged to provide an output voltage which has a frequency determined by the applied gating signal and which has a peak amplitude value which varies over successive cycles with the waveform of the voltage across the reservoir capacitor.

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