Power circuit for data storage device to prevent data loss

• US 8,868,938 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2011
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Luo, Qi-Yan, Chen, Peng, Tong, Song-Lin
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Chun
• Application Number:
  US13/169,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20120311352A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,212 Days
• Field of Search: 713/300, 713/320, 713/340, 714/14, 714/22
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/28 Supervision thereof, e.g. detecting power-supply failure by out of limits supervision
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/30 Means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption, e.g. power-supply fluctuations for resetting only G06F1/24
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 5/145 Applications of charge pumps; Boosted voltage circuits; Clamp circuits therefor G11C5/141 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 5/147 Voltage reference generators, voltage or current regulators; Internally lowered supply levels; Compensation for voltage drops G11C5/141 takes precedence

Abstract

A power circuit which is applicable to a data storage device. A boost circuit receives a first voltage and converts it to a second voltage. A charging and discharging circuit receives the second voltage and charges a charging capacitor. As long as a voltage detecting circuit detects that the second voltage exists, it outputs a first selection signal. When the voltage detecting circuit detects that the second voltage does not exist, it outputs a second selection signal and also outputs a signal to the charging and discharging circuit, to release a stored voltage. A voltage selection circuit will output the second voltage according to the first selection signal, or will output the stored voltage from the charging capacitor according to the second selection signal. Buck circuits convert the second voltage or the stored voltage to the different voltages required by a control chip of the data storage device.

Claims

1. A power circuit applicable to a data storage device, the power circuit comprising:

a boost circuit to receive a first voltage from a motherboard and convert the first voltage to a second voltage;

a control circuit comprising;

a charging capacitor;

a charging and discharging circuit to receive the second voltage and charge the charging capacitor, wherein the charging and discharging circuit comprises a charging chip, an inductor, first to fifth capacitors, and first to fifth resistors, an input pin of the charging chip is connected to a first end of the inductor, a second end of the inductor is connected to the boost circuit, the first capacitor is connected between the first end of the inductor and ground, the second capacitor is connected between the second end of the inductor and ground, the third capacitor is connected between first and second I/O pins of the charging chip, the first resistor is connected between a third I/O pin of the charging chip and ground, a fourth I/O pin of the charging chip is connected to the boost circuit and also grounded through the second resistor, the third and the fourth resistors are connected in parallel between a fifth I/O pin of the charging chip and ground, a sixth I/O pin of the charging chip is connected to a seventh I/O pin of the charging chip through the fifth resistor, and also connected to the charging capacitor, and the fourth and the fifth capacitors are connected in parallel between the seventh I/O pin and ground;

a voltage detecting circuit to detect whether the second voltage exists or not, wherein the voltage detecting circuit outputs a first selection signal in response to the voltage detecting circuit detects that the second voltage exists, the voltage detecting circuit outputs a second selection signal, and also outputs a control signal to the charging and discharging circuit to control the charging capacitor to discharge in response to the voltage detecting circuit detects that the second voltage does not exist; and

a voltage selection circuit to receive the first selection signal and output the second voltage according to the first selection signal, or receive the second selection signal and output a discharging voltage of the charging capacitor according to the second selection signal; and

first and second buck circuits to receive the second voltage or the discharging voltage of the charging capacitor, and convert the second voltage or the discharging voltage to different voltages and provide the different voltages to a control chip of the data storage device.

2. The power circuit of claim 1, further comprising an over-current protection circuit, wherein the over-current protection circuit is connected to the boost circuit, the charging and discharging circuit, the voltage detecting circuit, and the voltage selection circuit, the over-current protection circuit is disconnected when current output from the boost circuit is greater than a preset current.

3. The power circuit of claim 2, wherein the over-current protection circuit is a fuse.

4. The power circuit of claim 1, wherein the control circuit further comprises an indication circuit, the indication circuit is connected to the voltage selection circuit to receive the second voltage or the discharging voltage, and also connected to the voltage detecting circuit, when the voltage detecting circuit detects the second voltage exists, the indication circuit receives a first indication signal from the voltage detecting circuit, to indicate the motherboard works normally, when the voltage detecting circuit detect the second voltage does not exist, the indication circuit receives a second indication signal from the voltage detecting circuit, to indicate the motherboard loses power.

5. The power circuit of claim 4, wherein the voltage detecting circuit comprises a voltage monitoring chip, first and second diodes, sixth to thirteen resistors, and sixth to tenth capacitors, a sensing pin of the voltage monitoring chip is grounded through the eighth capacitor, and also connected to the boost circuit through the eighth resistor and connected to an anode of the second diode, a first I/O pin of the voltage monitoring chip is connected to the charging and discharging circuit through the ninth resistor, a second I/O pin of the voltage monitoring chip is grounded through the ninth capacitor, a third I/O in of the voltage monitoring chip is grounded through the tenth resistor and the tenth capacitor connected in series, a fourth I/O pin of the voltage monitoring chip is connected to the voltage selection circuit and the indication circuit through the eleventh resistor, the fourth I/O pin of the voltage monitoring chip is also connected to a voltage pin of the voltage monitoring chip through the seventh resistor and also connected to cathodes of the first and the second diodes, a fifth I/O pin of the voltage monitoring chip is connected to the voltage selection circuit through the twelfth resistor and also grounded through the thirteen resistor, an anode of the first diode is connected to the charging capacitor through the sixth resistor, the sixth and the seventh capacitors are connected in parallel between the voltage pin of the voltage monitoring chip and ground.

6. The power circuit of claim 5, wherein the voltage selection circuit comprises a control chip, fourteenth to eighteenth resistors, and eleventh to fifteenth capacitors, a first input pin of the control chip is connected to the charging capacitor and also grounded through the eleventh capacitor and the fourteenth resistor connected in series, first and second I/O pins of the control chip are respectively connected to the fourth and the fifth I/O pins of the voltage monitoring chip, a second input pin of the control chip is connected to the boost circuit and also grounded through the twelfth capacitor and the fifteenth resistor connected in series, first and second output pins of the control chip are both connected to the indication circuit and first ends of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth resistors, second ends of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth resistors are connected to the first and the second buck circuits, the thirteenth capacitor is connected between the first output pin of the control chip and ground, the fourteenth and the fifteenth capacitors are connected in parallel between the second end of the sixteenth resistor and ground.

7. The power circuit of claim 6, wherein the indication circuit comprises a field effect transistor (FET), a light emitting diode (LED), and nineteenth and twentieth resistors, a gate of the FET is connected to the fourth I/O pin of the voltage monitoring chip through the twentieth resistor, a source of the FET is grounded, a drain of the FET is connected to a cathode of the LED, an anode of the LED is connected to the first output pin of the control chip through the nineteenth resistor.

8. The power circuit of claim 1, wherein the charging capacitor is a supercapacitor.