Power supply with galvanic isolation

• US 8,649,192 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2008
• Issued: 02/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R. Stahl Schaltgerte Gmbh, Stahl Schaltergeräte GmbH
• Original Assignee: R. STAHL Schaltgeräte GmbH
• Inventors: Frey, Fritz
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhang, Jue
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEE III, HENRY E
• Application Number:
  US12/745,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20100295525A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,915 Days
• Field of Search: 363/20, 363/21.01, 363 2104- 2105, 363 2112- 2113, 363/21.16, 363/56.08, 363 5611- 5612, 363/109
• US Class Current: 363/21.12
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/32 Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33523 with galvanic isolation between input and output of both the power stage and the feedback loop
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/3381 using a single commutation path

Abstract

A power-supply includes a power-supply input. A transformer has a primary winding and a secondary winding separated galvanically from the primary winding. A controlled semiconductor switch has a control input in series circuit with the primary winding, which lies parallel to the power-supply input. A controllable control circuit for the semiconductor switch delivers a periodic control signal, which is controlled such that the output voltage on the secondary winding is kept at a desired value independent of the load, to the semiconductor switch. A voltage limiting circuit lies parallel to the input side of the primary winding. An output signal of the voltage limiting circuit acts on the switch state of the semiconductor switch to move the semiconductor switch to a stationary state, in which it generates no alternating current on the primary winding, when the voltage on the primary winding has exceeded a specified limiting value.

Claims

1. A power-supply with galvanic isolation, comprising:

a power-supply input having first and second input terminals, and a power-supply output having first and second output terminals,

a transformer that has a primary winding, the primary winding having first and second primary winding terminals, wherein the first primary winding terminal is connected to the first input terminal; and

a secondary winding separated galvanically from the primary winding, the secondary winding having first and second secondary winding terminals connected to the first and second power-supply output terminals and across an output capacitor,

a diode having a cathode connected to the first input terminal via an input capacitor and an anode connected to the second primary winding terminal;

a controlled semiconductor switch that has at least one control input, a first switch terminal, and a second switch terminal, wherein the first switch terminal is connected to the second primary winding terminal, and wherein the second switch terminal is connected to the second input terminal, such that the controlled semiconductor switch forms, with the primary winding, a series circuit that lies parallel to the power-supply input,

a controllable control circuit for the semiconductor switch that delivers, for the semiconductor switch, to the at least one control input, a periodic control signal that is controlled such that the output voltage on the secondary winding is kept at a specified desired value independent of the load, and

a voltage limiting circuit having first and second voltage limiting circuit terminals, the first voltage limiting circuit terminal being connected to the second primary winding terminal, and the second voltage limiting circuit terminal being connected to the anode of the diode, such that the voltage limiting circuit lies parallel to the primary winding on the input side so that the voltage limiting circuit receives a voltage of the primary winding, wherein an output signal of the voltage limiting circuit acts on the switch state of the semiconductor switch such that the semiconductor switch is moved to a stationary state in which it generates no alternating current on the primary winding when the voltage on the primary winding has exceeded a specified limiting value.

2. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein the primary winding has more or fewer windings than the secondary winding.

3. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein the controlled semiconductor switch is a MOSFET.

4. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein the controllable control circuit includes an astable multivibrator.

5. The power-supply according to claim 4, wherein the multivibrator has a constant clock frequency and is controllable in its pulse cycle.

6. The power-supply according to claim 4, wherein the multivibrator has a variable frequency and the pulse cycle is controllable.

7. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein the voltage limiting circuit has a storage element.

8. The power-supply according to claim 7, wherein the storage element is formed by a capacitor.

9. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein the power limiting circuit is connected to the primary winding by means of a diode.

10. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein the voltage limiting circuit contains a reference element.

11. The power-supply according to claim 10, wherein the reference element is formed by a shunt regulator.

12. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein a half-wave rectifier circuit having at least one filter capacitor is connected to the secondary side.

13. The power-supply according to claim 1, further including a current limiting circuit.

14. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein the power-supply is configured to operate as a blocking-oscillator-type converter.

15. The power-supply according to claim 1, wherein the voltage limiting circuit contains a potential inverting stage that has two bipolar transistors of opposite conduction type.