Buck power factor correction system

• US 8,901,900 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Tsai, Wen-Tien, Lee, Ching-Ran
• Primary Examiner(s): STERRETT, JEFFREY L
• Application Number:
  US13/351,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20130082666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,050 Days
• Field of Search: 323/271, 323/282, 363/89
• US Class Current: 323/271
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/4208 Arrangements for improving power factor of AC input
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/4291 by using a Buck converter to switch the input current
• 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

The invention disclosed buck power factor correction system. The system includes: a first storing device, for storing and discharging energy; a first converter device, coupled to the first storing device, for transferring and converting energy; a second storing device, coupled to the first storing device, for storing and discharging energy; and a second converter device, coupled to the second storing device, for transferring and converting energy.

Claims

1. A buck power factor correction system, comprising:

a first storing device, for storing and discharging energy;

a first converter device, coupled to the first storing device, for transferring and converting energy;

a second storing device, coupled to the first storing device, for storing and discharging energy;

a second converter device, coupled to the second storing device, for transferring and discharging energy;

a rectifying device, coupled to the first storing device, for receiving and rectifying a power source to generate an input voltage; and

a load, coupled to the first storing device;

wherein the first storing device comprises a plurality of energy-storing paths as a plurality of energy-transferring paths; and

wherein the plurality of energy-transferring paths comprise;

a first energy-transferring path, formed by directly charging the first and second storing devices by the input voltage;

a second energy-transferring path, formed by charging the first storing device via the first converter device by the input voltage; and

a third energy-transferring path, formed by charging the first storing device via the second converter device by the second storing device.

2. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 1, wherein the first and second storing devices are capacitors.

3. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 1, wherein the rectifying device is a bridge rectifier.

4. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 1, wherein the first converter device comprises a first diode, a first active switch transistor and a first inductor;

the second converter device comprises the first diode, the first active transistor, the first inductor and a second active switch transistor.

5. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 4, wherein the second active switch transistor is for low-frequency switching, the first active switch transistor is controlled by high-frequency pulse width modulation (PWM), and the pulse width is modulated via a feedback signal.

6. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 4, wherein the first diode in the first converter device is coupled to the rectifying device, the first active switch transistor in the first converter device has one end coupled to the first diode and one other end coupled to the rectifying device, the first inductor in the first converter device has one end coupled to the first diode and one other end coupled to the first storing device.

7. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 6, wherein the second active switch transistor in the second converter device has one end coupled to the first active switch transistor and one other end coupled to the second storing device.

8. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 4, wherein the first energy-transferring path is formed from the input voltage via the first and second storing devices and a bypass diode on the second active switch transistor;

the second energy-transferring path is formed from the input voltage via the first storing device and the first converter device; and

the third energy-transferring path is formed from the second storing devices via the second converter device and the first storing device.

9. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 8, wherein between the first storing device and the load forms a fourth energy-transferring path.

10. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 1, wherein the energy is a voltage or a current.

11. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 1, wherein the first converter device comprises a first diode, a first active switch transistor and a first inductor;

the second converter device comprises a second diode, a second active switch transistor and a second inductor.

12. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 11, wherein the first active switch transistor and the second active switch transistor are controlled by high-frequency PWM, and the pulse width is modulated via a feedback signal.

13. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 11, further comprising:

a switch element, coupled between the first storing device and the second storing device.

14. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 13, wherein the first diode in the first converter device is coupled to the rectifying device, the first active switch transistor in the first converter device has one end coupled to the first diode and one other end coupled to the rectifying device, and the first inductor in the first converter device has one end coupled to the first diode and one other end coupled to the switch element.

15. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 14, wherein the second diode in the second converter device is coupled to the first diode, the second active switch transistor in the second converter device has one end coupled to the second diode and one other end coupled to the first active switch transistor, and the second inductor in the second converter device has one end coupled to the second diode and one other end coupled to the switch element.

16. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 13, wherein the switch element is a semiconductor diode.

17. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 16, wherein the first energy-transferring path is formed from the input voltage via the first and second storing devices and the semiconductor diode;

the second energy-transferring path is formed from the input voltage via the first storing device and the first converter device; and

the third energy-transferring path is formed by the first storing device, the second storing device and the second converter device.

18. The buck power factor correction system according to claim 17, wherein between the first storing device and the load forms a fourth energy-transferring path.