CHARGING EQUIPMENT OF VARIABLE FREQUENCY CONTROL FOR POWER FACTOR

• US 20120091970A1
• Filed: 12/28/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Cho, Young Jin, Han, Kyu Bum
• Application Number:
  US12/979,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20120091970A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/160
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0032 Control circuits allowing low power mode operation, e.g. in standby mode
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/007 Plural converter units in cascade push-pull DC/DC converters with pre-regulator H02M3/3374; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC stage including a high frequency transformer H02M7/4807; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC conversion stage generating periodically varying voltages H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/4225 using a non-isolated boost converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/3384 of the parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 40/00 Technologies aiming at improving the efficiency of home appliances, e.g. induction cooking or efficient technologies for refrigerators, freezers or dish washers
• 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

Disclosed herein is a charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor. In addition, the present invention relates to a charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor including: an AC-DC converter converting AC power into DC power; a DC-DC converter converting DC power output from the power factor calibration circuit into DC power for charging a battery and outputting the converted DC power; and a power factor calibration circuit calibrating power factor by the operation of the switching device and outputting the calibrated power factor; and a power factor calibration circuit controller performing the switching control by varying the frequency of the pulse signal when performing a switching control by modulating a pulse width of a pulse signal on the switching devices of the power factor calibration circuit, thereby making it possible to maintain the power factor even in the light load status.

Claims

1. A charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor, comprising:

an AC-DC converter receiving AC power and converting it into DC power and outputting it;

a power factor calibration circuit including a switching device and calibrating the power factor of the DC power output from the AC-DC converter by the switching operation of the switching device and outputting it;

a DC-DC converter converting DC power output from the power factor calibration circuit into DC power for charging a battery and outputting the converted DC power; and

a power factor calibration circuit controller performing the switching control by varying the frequency of the pulse signal according to a load status of a battery output from a battery management system when performing a switching control on the switching devices of the power factor calibration circuit by modulating a pulse width of a pulse signal according to the DC power output from the power factor calibration circuit.

2. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 1, wherein the power factor calibration circuit controller varies the frequency of the pulse signal in order to have a switching frequency relatively lower in a heavy load status than in a case where the load status of the battery is in a light load status.

3. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 1, wherein the power factor calibration circuit controller includes:

a pulse width modulator outputting a pulse signal of which the pulse width is modulated in order to perform a switching control on the switching device of the power factor calibration circuit; and

a pulse frequency modulator varying a frequency of the pulse signal output from the pulse width modulator according to the load status of the battery output from the battery management system to perform the switching control on the switching device.

4. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 3, wherein the pulse frequency modulator includes:

a comparator receiving output voltage and reference voltage in proportion to the load status from the battery management system to compare the input signals and output them;

a transistor having a first terminal connected to power voltage and a second terminal and a third terminal connected to ground voltage;

a capacitor connected between the first and second terminals of the transistor in parallel;

a latch connected to the output terminal of the comparator and the first terminal of the transistor and outputting the pulse signal of which the frequency is varied; and

a delayer delaying the pulse signal of which the frequency is varied to provide it to the third terminal of the transistor.

5. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a filter unit receiving the AC power to remove high frequency component and output it to the AC-DC converter.

6. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a charging filter unit receiving the DC power output from the DC-DC converter to remove the high frequency component and output it to the battery.

7. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 1, wherein the AC-DC converter includes a bridge full-wave rectification circuit in which four diodes are connected in a bridge scheme.

8. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 1, wherein the power factor calibration circuit includes:

an inductor connected to one terminal of the AC-DC converter in series;

a blocking diode connected to the inductor in series in a positive direction toward a load terminal and blocking current in a reverse direction;

a switching transistor having a first terminal connected to the output terminal of the inductor and a second terminal connected to the other terminal of the AC-DC converter and performing a function as the switching device by performing the turn-on/off operation according to the switching control signal applied through the third terminal from the power factor calibration circuit controller; and

a storage capacitor connected between the output terminal of the blocking diode and the other terminal of the AC-DC converter.

9. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 1, wherein the DC-DC converter includes:

a DC-AC converter converting DC power output from the power factor calibration circuit into AC power;

a contactless transformer increasing and reducing AC power output from the AC-DC converter and outputting the AC power; and

an AC-DC converter converting the increased or reduced AC power output from the contactless transformer into DC power for the battery and outputting the converted DC power.

10. The charging equipment of variable frequency control for power factor as set forth in claim 9, wherein the DC-AC converter includes:

a pair of switching transistors having a first terminal connected to one terminal of the output side of the power factor calibration circuit and a second terminal connected to each of the two terminals of the contactless transformer;

another pair of switching transistors having a first terminal connected to each of the two terminals of the contactless transformer and a second terminal connected to the other side terminal of the power factor calibration circuit; and

four anti-parallel diodes reversely connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of each of the switching transistors in order to prevent current from reflowing from the winding of the secondary side of the contactless transformer.