Circuit arrangement for generating a DC-separated output voltage

• US 5,673,185 A
• Filed: 04/02/1996
• Issued: 09/30/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Durbaum, Thomas, Albach, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Peter S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAN, YOUNGHUIE JESSICA
• Application Number:
  US08/626,529
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• Field of Search: 363/20, 363/21, 363/44, 363/45
• US Class Current: 363/45
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/12 Arrangements for reducing harmonics from ac input or output
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/4258 using a single converter stage both for correction of AC input power factor and generation of a regulated and galvanically isolated DC output voltage H02M1/4241 takes precedence
• 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

A circuit arrangement for generating at least a DC output voltage (at 18, 19) from an at least substantially sine-shaped AC input voltage (at 2, 3) of a first frequency by a first rectifier arrangement (1) to which the AC input voltage can be applied (at 2, 3) and which has a DC output (4, 5) from which a rectified voltage is obtainable, a first inductance (6), a second rectifier arrangement (7) and a first filter capacitance (8) which, in this order, constitute a series arrangement connected parallel to the DC output (4, 5), a switched-mode power supply (9) having two input terminals (10, 11) with which it is arranged parallel to the first filter capacitance (8) and between which it includes a series arrangement of a second inductance (12) and a switching device (13) which is alternately switchable in the conducting state and in the blocked state at a second frequency and from which the DC output voltage(s) is (are) obtainable (at 18, 19), as well as a first control capacitance (23) by which the junction point (22) between the first inductance (6) and the second rectifier arrangement (7) is combined with the junction point (24) between the second inductance (12) and the switching device (13), as well as the series arrangement of a second control capacitance (28) and a second switching device (29) which is arranged parallel to the first control capacitance (23) between the junction points (22) and (24), the first inductance (6) and the first control capacitance (23) being dimensioned in such a way that a resonance frequency determined thereby is larger than the second frequency and the last-mentioned frequency is chosen to be large with respect to the first frequency, while the second control capacitance (28) is chosen to be large with respect to the first control capacitance (23). While using a small number of components, both the voltage rise at the switching device and thus the high-frequency interference originating therefrom can be reduced under all occurring circumstances, and the harmonics of the line current can also be reduced. Moreover, the maximum voltage occurring at the switching elements may be limited to a predetermined value without any additional losses.

Claims

1. A circuit arrangement for generating at least one DC output voltage from an at least substantially sine-shaped AC input voltage of a first frequency by means of a first rectifier arrangement to which the AC input voltage is applied and which has a DC output from which a rectified voltage is obtainable, a first inductance, a second rectifier arrangement and a first filter capacitance which, in this order, constitute a series arrangement connected in parallel to the DC output, a switched-mode power supply having two input terminals with which said switched-mode power supply is arranged in parallel to the first filter capacitance, said switched-mode power supply comprising, between said input terminals, a series arrangement of a second inductance and a switching device which is alternately switchable in a conducting state and in a blocked state at a second frequency and from which the at least one DC output voltage is obtainable, as well as a first control capacitance by which a junction point between the first inductance and the second rectifier arrangement is combined with a junction point between the second inductance and the switching device, as well as a series arrangement of a second control capacitance and a second switching device which is arranged in parallel to the first control capacitance between the junction points, the first inductance and the first control capacitance being dimensioned in such a way that a resonance frequency determined thereby is larger than the second frequency and the second frequency is chosen to be large with respect to the first frequency, while the second control capacitance is chosen to be large with respect to the first control capacitance.