Method and power supply device for generating regulated D.C. voltage from A.C. voltage

• US 6,483,278 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2001
• Issued: 11/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Secop GmbH (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Danfoss Compressors, Spol. S R.O. (AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA)
• Inventors: Harvest, Nils-Ole
• Primary Examiner(s): Riley, Shawn
• Application Number:
  US09/943,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20020031001A1
• Time in Patent Office: 446 Days
• Field of Search: 323/224, 323/282, 323/286, 323/287, 323/271, 323/284, 363/80, 363/89
• US Class Current: 323/224
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/007 Plural converter units in cascade push-pull DC/DC converters with pre-regulator H02M3/3374; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC stage including a high frequency transformer H02M7/4807; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC conversion stage generating periodically varying voltages H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/158 including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load

Abstract

A method and power supply device for generating a regulated direct voltage from an alternating voltage using a step-down transformer, a step-up transformer, an inductance coil and a control device that controls the transformer in a step-down or step-up transformation mode is disclosed herein. An inductance coil voltage measuring signal is compared with three limiting values (A, B, C), wherein A corresponds to zero, B lies between A and C and B and C correspond to the direct voltage. Switching from the step-down to the step-up transformation mode is effected when the increasing voltage measuring signal drops after reaching B and A is not reached again and increases to C instead. Switching from step-down to step-up transformation mode is effected when the decreasing voltage measuring signal increases after reaching A and B is not reached and drops to A instead. In the power supply device, the control device includes three comparators for comparing the limiting values (A, B, C) with the voltage measuring signal of a voltage measuring device, wherein at least B anc C are dependent upon regulation deviation.

Claims

1. Method for generating a regulated D.C. voltage (U_G) from an A.C. voltage (U_w) by means of a power supply device, comprising a step-down converter (S₁, D₁, D₂, C₀, L) with a first switch (S₁), a step-up converter (S₂, D₂, C₀, L) with a second switch (S₂), an inductor (L), which is common for both converters, and a control device (11), which sequentially controls the step-down converter and the step-up converter in such a way, that the power supply device is operated in either a step-down conversion mode or a step-up conversion mode, wherein

a measured current signal (I) of the current (I_L) flowing through the inductor (L) is compared with a first limit value (A), a second limit value (B) and a third limit value (C), the first limit value (A) being close to zero and the second limit value (B) ranging between the first limit value (A) and the third limit value (C), and at least the second and the third limit values (B, C) being inversely proportional to the actual value (X) of a physical magnitude corresponding to the D.C. voltage (U_G),

the control device (11) switches the power supply device from the step-up conversion mode to the step-down conversion mode, when, after reaching the second limit value (B), the rising measured current signal (I) starts decreasing, though not reaching the first limit value (A), but rises (t₄) to the third limit value (C), and

the control device (11) of the power supply device switches from the step-down conversion mode to the step-up conversion mode, when the decreasing measured current signal, after reaching the first limit value (A), starts rising and does not reach the second limit value (B), but decreases back (t₆) to the first limit value (A).

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein in the step-up conversion mode (t₀ to t₁) the first switch (S₁) is on and during this mode the second switch (S₂) is turned off, when the rising measured current signal (I) reaches the second limit value (B), and is turned on when the decreasing measured current signal (I) reaches the first limit value (A), and that in the step-down conversion mode (t₁ to t₅) the second switch (S₂) is off and during this mode the first switch (S₁) is turned on, when the decreasing measured current signal (I) reaches the first limit value (A), and is turned off, when the rising measured current signal (I) reaches the third limit value (C).

3. Power supply device for implementing the method according to claim 1 for a load (2), with a rectifier (3), on whose output side the first switch (S₁) and the inductor (L) are arranged in series, with a first diode (D₁), which forms a current circuit with the second switch (S₂), a second diode (D₂), a smoothing capacitor (C₀), into which the inductor is dischargeable through the two diodes (D₁, D₂), when the switches (S₁, S₂) are off (opened), and with a control device, which has an adder (12) for desired and actual values of the signals (W, X) having opposite signs and representing the D.C. voltage (U_G) and the control device (11) for the switches (S₁, S₂), wherein the control device (11) has three comparators (15, 16, 17), each comparing one of the limit values (A, B, C) with the measured current signal (I) of a current measuring device (5) arranged in series with the inductor (L) and that at least the second and the third limit values (B, C) are dependent upon the output signal (X_w) of the adder (12).

4. Power supply device according to claim 3, wherein the second and the third limit values (B, C) are directly proportional with the output signal (X_w) of the adder (12).

5. Power supply device according to claim 4, wherein the limit values (A, B, C) are supplied from a voltage divider (14), which is connected with the output of the adder (12) via an amplifier (13).

6. Power supply device according claims 5, wherein the switches (S₁, S₂) are connected directly in series.

7. Power supply device according to claim 6, wherein the control device (11) comprises a switching frequency limiter, which prevents that the switching period duration of the switches (S₁, S₂) drops below a certain minimum by delaying the switching-on time of the switches S, S₂, when a minimum time has not lapsed since the latest switching-on time, and prevents an exceeding of a maximum switching period duration by advancing the switching-on time of the switching elements (S₁, S₂), when a maximum time has lapsed since the latest switching-on time.