Electrical and/or electronic supply circuit and method for providing a supply voltage

• US 9,577,470 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2012
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG
• Original Assignee: Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG
• Inventors: Fiedler, Marc, Griech, Reinhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Amaya, Carlos
• Application Number:
  US13/482,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20120306276A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,729 Days
• Field of Search: 307/80, 307/64
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/263 Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC G06F1/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/305 in the event of power-supply fluctuations
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 1/082 Plural DC voltage, e.g. DC supply voltage with at least two different DC voltage levels
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00009 using pulsed signals
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/04 in which the distribution system is disconnected from the normal source and connected to a standby source
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/061 for DC powered loads
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/1607 Supply circuits converters H02M; filters therefor H02M1/14; voltage stabilisers G05F1/46
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/12 Energy storage units, uninterruptible power supply [UPS] systems or standby or emergency generators, e.g. in the last power distribution stages
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/248 UPS systems or standby or emergency generators

Abstract

An electrical and/or electronic supply circuit, which serves to provide a first or a second, essentially constant value of a supply voltage, which supply voltage serves to operate an operating electronics. The supply circuit serves to output the first value of the supply voltage when the supply voltage is derived from a first voltage source, and the supply circuit serves to output the second value of the supply voltage when the supply voltage is derived from a second voltage source.

Claims

1. An arrangement comprising:

an electrical and/or electronic supply circuit that provides a supply voltage, which serves to output a first value of the supply voltage when the supply voltage is derived from a first voltage source and a second value of the supply voltage when the supply voltage is derived from a second voltage source, wherein said second voltage source is a chargeable energy storer and

an operating electronics for a radio unit for a plant of process automation technology which serves for the functions of the radio unit and provides a voltage for the supply of a field device which is connectable to said radio unit; and

a detection circuit in said operating electronics which measures the values of the supply voltage and sets said operating electronics to different operating modes based on the measured value;

wherein, in the case in which the supply voltage is delivered from the second voltage source a radio connection via the radio unit is uninterrupted for a predetermined period of time and wherein said field device connected to the radio unit is switched off to save energy.

2. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the operating electronics has a first and a second mode; and

said operating electronics sets said first or second operating mode as a function of the first or the second value of the supply voltage.

3. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the supply circuit serves to output a third value of the supply voltage, which differs from the first value and the second value of the supply voltage, when said energy storer is being charged via said first voltage source.

4. A radio unit for a plant of process automation technology comprising an arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the supply circuit Includes a power supply and an energy storer, and the supply circuit outputs the first value or second value of the supply voltage as a function of whether the voltage supply occurs via the power supply or the energy storer,

wherein the radio unit includes said operating electronics, which measures the values of the supply voltage and sets said operating electronics to different operating modes based on the measured value, wherein;

in the case in which the supply voltage is delivered from the energy storer a radio connection via the radio unit is uninterrupted for a predetermined period of time; and

said field device connected to the radio unit is switched off.

5. The radio unit as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

said operating electronics serves to set a first or second operating mode of said operating electronics as a function of the value of the supply voltage.

6. The radio unit as claimed in claim 4 wherein:

said operating electronics has a communication interface and in the case, in which the supply voltage changes, from the first value to the second value, said communication interface serves to transmit a corresponding radio signal.

7. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first voltage source is an alternating voltage source.

8. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first voltage source is a grid connection.

9. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second voltage source is an chargeable energy storer.

10. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first value of the supply voltage differs from said second value of the supply voltage.

11. A method for providing a supply voltage, by means of which supply voltage an operating electronics of a radio unit for a plant of process automation technology is operated, said radio unit provides a voltage for the supply of a field device which is connected to the radio unit, comprising the steps of:

a first value of a supply voltage is output when the supply voltage is derived from a first voltage source;

a second value of a supply voltage is output when the supply voltage is derived from a second voltage source; and

measuring the values of the supply voltage and sets said operating electronics to different operating modes based on the measured value, wherein;

in the case in which the supply voltage is delivered from the second voltage source a radio connection via said radio unit is uninterrupted for a predetermined period of time; and

said field device connected to the radio unit is switched off.