Power supply comprising a standby feature

• US 9,306,460 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2012
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VKR Holding A/S (Villum Fonden)
• Original Assignee: VKR Holding A/S (Villum Fonden)
• Inventors: Srensen, Alex
• Primary Examiner(s): Dole, Timothy J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ahmed, Yusef
• Application Number:
  US14/001,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20140003094A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,506 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0035 using burst mode control
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0058 by employing soft switching techniques, i.e. commutation of transistors when applied voltage is zero or when current flow is zero using an auxiliary actively switched resonant commutation circuit connected to an intermediate DC voltage or between two push-pull branches of an inverter bridge H02M7/4811; in resonant inverters H02M7/4815; in inverters operating from a resonant DC source H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/01 Resonant DC/DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/156 with automatic control of output voltage or current, e.g. switching regulators
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33507 with automatic control of the output voltage or current, e.g. flyback converters H02M3/33561, H02M3/33569 take precedence
• 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 3/33571 Half-bridge at primary side of an isolation transformer
• 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

A power supply device including a switch arrangement including switches for generating a square wave output, a switch control arrangement for controlling the switch arrangement, a resonator tank, a rectifier circuitry for rectifying in an output from the tank, and a burst mode operation arrangement configured to facilitate a standby mode of the power supply and including a burst mode restriction arrangement for receiving and evaluating a first feedback parameter associated with a switch of the switch arrangement, the burst mode operation arrangement further receiving and evaluating a second feedback parameter indicative of the output voltage of the power supply device, and being configured to disable and enable the burst mode feature based on the evaluation of both the first feedback parameter and second feedback parameter by controlling an output from the burst mode operation arrangement.

Claims

1. A power supply device comprising:

a switch arrangement comprising switches for generating a square wave output,

a switch control arrangement for controlling said switch arrangement,

a resonator tank,

a rectifier circuitry for rectifying an output from said tank,

wherein said switch arrangement is arranged to operate according to an output from said switch control arrangement, wherein said resonator tank is arranged to receive said square wave output, wherein said rectifier circuitry is arranged to provide an output, and

wherein said power supply device further comprises a burst mode operation arrangement configured to facilitate a standby mode of said power supply,

said burst mode operation arrangement comprising a burst mode restriction arrangement configured for receiving and evaluating a first feedback parameter associated with a switch of said switch arrangement and being indicative of the power consumption at said output said burst mode operation arrangement further being configures for receiving and evaluating a second feedback parameter indicative of the output voltage of said power supply device,

the burst mode restriction arrangement being configured to disable and enable said burst mode feature based on said evaluation of both the first feedback parameter and second feedback parameter by controlling an output from said burst mode operation arrangement.

2. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said evaluation comprises continuously evaluating said first feedback parameter.

3. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said evaluation comprises said first feedback parameter being averaged over a time period.

4. The power supply device according to any of claim 1, wherein said evaluation comprises utilizing a moving average approach for continuously determining an average of said first feedback parameter within a predefined time period.

5. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said evaluation comprises comparing a result of an averaging with a first threshold and disabling said burst mode feature if said result cross said first threshold.

6. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said burst mode restriction arrangement is configured for establishing a DC component varying according to the result of an averaging of said first feedback parameter to be compared with a first threshold value.

7. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said first feedback parameter is configured to be averaged for more than the time period of one duty cycle of the operation of said switches.

8. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said burst mode restriction arrangement comprises a low-pass filter arrangement configured for establishing an average of said first feedback parameter.

9. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said first feedback parameter is a voltage indicative of the power supplying said output.

10. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said resonator tank comprises a LLC resonator arrangement.

11. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said burst mode operation arrangement further comprises a voltage control arrangement configured for receiving and evaluating said second feedback parameter indicative of the output voltage of said power supply device and to enable said switch arrangement when said second feedback parameter exceeds a second threshold.

12. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said burst mode operation arrangement further comprises a standby power supply arrangement configured for automatically enabling and disabling said switch arrangement during standby so as to at least ensure power supply to said switch control arrangement in standby mode.

13. The power supply device according to claim 12, wherein said standby power supply arrangement is further configured so as to provide power supply to said load in standby mode.

14. The power supply device according to claim 12, wherein said standby power supply arrangement comprises a timer arrangement configured for periodically enabling said switch arrangement.

15. The power supply device according to claim 12, wherein said standby power supply arrangement comprises a pulse generator arranged to generate a pulse signal with a predetermined duty cycle to periodically enable said switch arrangement.

16. The power supply device according to claim 15, wherein said duty cycle of said pulse signal comprises an on-time between 0.1% and 15%.

17. The power supply device according to claim 12, wherein said standby power supply arrangement is configured for enabling and disabling said switch arrangement based on said first and said second feedback signal.

18. The power supply according to claim 1, wherein said switch arrangement is configured to be operated with a first duty cycle during normal operation and a second duty cycle in standby mode.

19. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein said burst mode control arrangement is configured for generating a modulated output based on at least two burst mode control parameters.

20. A method of controlling a standby feature of a power supply device by a burst mode control arrangement, said method comprising:

a burst mode operation arrangement receiving a first feedback parameter associated with a switch of a switch arrangement and being indicative of the power consumption at said an output,

continuously averaging said first feedback parameter over a time period to establish a resulting parameter, and

continuously comparing said resulting parameter with a first threshold, so as to disable said standby feature if said resulting parameter exceeds said first threshold,

receiving and evaluating a second feedback parameter indicative of the output voltage of said power supply device to enable said switch arrangement when said second feedback parameter exceeds a second threshold.