Arrangement for supplying variable loads

• US 7,279,811 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2005
• Issued: 10/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AEG Power Solutions GmbH
• Original Assignee: AEG Power Supply Systems GmbH
• Inventors: Vollmar, Wilfried, Liese, Michael-Harro
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Rajnikant B.
• Application Number:
  US11/229,507
• Publication Number:
  US 20060061295A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 307 31- 40, 307/110, 307/111, 700/291, 700/293, 700/286, 700/299, 363/21.1, 363/21.2, 363/95, 363/60, 363/131, 702/62, 702/130
• US Class Current: 307/110
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 29/02 with tappings on coil or winding; with provision for rearrangement or interconnection of windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/12 for conversion of voltage or current amplitude only

Abstract

The invention relates to a first circuit arrangement (E) for supplying variable loads that can be connected to the first circuit arrangement (E) from a first current or voltage source (MV) in a first state of the first circuit arrangement having the following features: the first circuit arrangement (E) has a first terminal and a second terminal for connection to the first current or voltage source (MV) and a third terminal, at least one fourth terminal and at least one fifth terminal for connection to a second current or voltage source (Z); the second terminal is at a reference potential; the first circuit arrangement (E) has at least one eighth terminal for connection to two loads (R₂; R₃); the first circuit arrangement (E) has controllable switching means for changing over between the first state and a second state; in the first state, the at least one eighth terminal for connection to the two loads (R₂, R₃) is connected to the first terminal and the third terminal and the fifth terminal are connected to the reference potential, in the second state, the at least one eighth terminal is connected to the fourth terminal.

Claims

1. A first circuit arrangement (E) for supplying variable loads that can be connected to the first circuit arrangement (E)

from a first current or voltage source (MV) in a first state of the first circuit arrangement

comprising:

the first circuit arrangement (E) has a first terminal and a second terminal for connection to the first current or voltage source (MV) and a third terminal, at least one fourth terminal and at least one fifth terminal for connection to a second current or voltage source (Z);

the second terminal is at a reference potential;

the first circuit arrangement (E) has at least one eighth terminal for connection to two loads (R₂;

R₃);

the first circuit arrangement (E) has controllable switching means for changing over between the first state and a second state;

in the first state, the at least one eighth terminal (8 for connection to the two loads (R₂, R₃) is connected to the first terminal and the third terminal and the fifth terminal are connected to the reference potential, and

in the second state, theat least one eighth terminal is connected to the fourth terminal.

2. The first circuit arrangement (E) as claimed in claim 1

from a second current or voltage source in particular of a second circuit arrangement (Z) in the second state of the first circuit arrangement (E),

comprising the following features:

the first circuit arrangement (E) has, in addition to the at least one eighth terminal, a seventh terminal and at least one ninth terminal for connection to the loads (R₁, R₂, R₃),

in the first state and in the second state, the seventh terminal is directly connected to the third terminal.

3. The first circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein, in the first state, the controllable switching means connects the seventh terminal and the ninth terminals to the reference potential.

4. The first circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the ninth terminal is connected to a fifth terminal in each case.

5. The first circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controllable switching means, in the second state, connects the at least one eighth terminal to a fourth terminal in each case.

6. The first circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first circuit arrangement (E) has a sixth terminal and a tenth terminal).

7. The first circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the sixth terminal and the tenth terminal are directly connected to one another.

8. The first circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the switching means, in the first state, connect the tenth terminal to the reference potential.

9. The first circuit arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the loads (R₁, R₂, R₃) can be connected between the seventh terminal and the at least one eighth terminals between the at least one eighth terminals and the ninth terminal, and between at least one ninth terminal and, with interposition of the tenth terminal, the reference potential, in which case all the loads can then be connected in series between the seventh terminal and, with interposition of the tenth terminal, the reference potential.

10. An arrangement for supplying variable loads (R₁, R₂, R₃)

comprising a first circuit arrangement (E) as claimed in claim 1, to which the loads (R₁, R₂, R₃) can be connected;

and

comprising a second circuit arrangement (Z) as second current or voltage source,

in which case the arrangement can be operated in at least three states, namely

a first starting operating state, in which the first circuit arrangement (E) is in the first state and the loads (R₁, R₂, R₃) can be supplied from the first current and voltage source (MV),

a second starting operating state, in which the first circuit arrangement (E) is in the second state and the loads (R₁, R₂, R₃) can be supplied from the second circuit arrangement (Z) in parallel with one another, and

a continuous operating state, in which the first circuit arrangement (E) is in the second state and the loads (R₁, R₂, R₃) can be supplied from the second circuit arrangement (Z) in a manner connected in series,

it being possible to effect changeover between the first starting operating state and the second starting operating state through the switching means of the first circuit arrangement and between the second starting operating state and the continuous operating state through switching means of the second circuit arrangement (Z).

11. The arrangement as claimed in claim 10, wherein the second circuit arrangement (Z) has means for ensuring a supply of the loads (R₁, R₂, R₃) with electrical energy of identical magnitude in the second starting operating state of the circuit arrangement.

12. The arrangement as claimed in claim 10, wherein the second circuit arrangement (Z) has output-side terminals by means of which the second circuit arrangement is connected to the third, fourth and fifth terminals of the first circuit arrangement (E).

13. The arrangement as claimed in claim 10, wherein, in the continuous operating state, a first voltage is dropped between the output-side terminal and connected thereto the third terminal and seventh terminal of the first circuit arrangement, on the one hand, and the reference potential, while the remaining output-side terminals of the second circuit arrangement and connected thereto the fourth and eighth terminals and, respectively fifth and ninth terminals are potential-free in no-load operation of the arrangement.

14. The arrangement as claimed in claim 12, wherein, in the second starting operating state, in no-load operation, a first voltage is dropped between the first output-side terminal of the second circuit arrangement (Z) and a first half of the second output-side terminals of the second circuit arrangement, on the one hand, and a second reference point, on the other hand, while a second half of the second output-side terminals of the second circuit arrangement (Z) has the same potential as the second reference point.

15. The arrangement as claimed in claim 10, wherein the second circuit arrangement comprises a last output-side terminal which is at the second reference potential.

16. The arrangement as claimed in claim 11, wherein the ensuring means comprise coils.