Abstract:
The methods for starting a Hall-less single-phase BLDCM having an asymmetrical air gap are proposed. The provided methods are employed to input a specific amount of current impulse and stop the current impulse at a specific time such that the rotor of the single-phase BLDCM having an asymmetrical air gap can be realized to rotate in the pre-determined direction through one of the cogging torque and the rotor inertia after that specific time so as to accomplish the normal starting of a motor without the Hall-effect sensor.
Abstract:
A power supply device and a single photo-coupler control circuit thereof are provided. The power supply device includes a single photo-coupler control circuit, a main converter and an auxiliary converter. The main converter connects to an output load. The auxiliary converter connects in parallel with the main converter. The single photo-coupler control circuit, also connected to the output load, monitors the status of the power supply device and controls the main converter and the auxiliary converter accordingly. The single photo-coupler control circuit only has one photo-coupler. The main converter and the auxiliary converter together provide a first output to the output load when the power supply device works in a normal mode. The main converter is turned off so that only the auxiliary converter provides a second output to the output load when the power supply device works in a standby mode.
Abstract:
An LLC series resonant converter and a driving method for the synchronous rectification power switches thereof are provided. The LLC series resonant converter includes a bridge circuit, a resonant network, a transformer, a rectification circuit, and a frequency adjustment controller. The bridge circuit includes at least one pair of power switches. The power switches drive the resonant network. The rectification circuit includes at least one pair of synchronous rectification power switches. The synchronous rectification power switches and the power switches have a mapping relation between them. The frequency adjustment controller provides driving signals to the synchronous rectification power switches in response to the operating frequency of the LLC series resonant converter and the series resonant frequency of the resonant network, to implement synchronous rectification in the LLC series resonant converter.
Abstract:
The method and circuit for controlling a sensorless single-phase BLDCM having a stator with a winding are proposed. The provided controlling circuit includes a power supply circuit, an inverter coupled to the winding and the power supply circuit, a BEMF detecting circuit coupled to the winding and the inverter and measuring a BEMF of the winding, and a controller coupled to the power supply circuit, the inverter and the BEMF detecting circuit and analyzing a status of the BEMF to control the BLDCM accordingly. The provided method is based on the motor winding time-sharing theory, and the controller controls the inverter to make the winding used as a driving element with loading current when the absolute value of the BEMF is relatively large and as a sensing element when the absolute value of the BEMF is relatively small.
Abstract:
A method for starting-up a motor having multiple stator windings and a rotor contains first providing current to two of the windings to excite a predefined phase and allowing one of the windings floating, Then, the back electromotive force (BEMF) induced in the floating winding is monitored. If a zero crossing of BEMF occurs in the floating winding within the maximum startup time, then it commutates to the next phase, which is adjacent to the first initial phase in the predetermined sequence of excitation phases. If no zero crossing of BEMF occurs in the floating winding within the maximum startup time, then it commutates to the next phase, which is functionally shifted by two phase-intervals from the predefined phase.
Abstract:
An apparatus for reducing the heat losses caused by the DC Bus capacitor current is proposed. The apparatus includes: a double frequency boost converter circuit having two boost converter circuits coupled in parallel, in which two switches, respectively disposed on the two boost converter circuits, are turned on and off alternately to produce an output current having a frequency twice that of control signals of the two switches, and to offer a DC bus respectively, a full-bridge DC-DC converter coupled to an output terminal of the double frequency boost converter circuit for transforming an output of the DC bus to a DC voltage, and a DC bus capacitor coupled to the double frequency boost converter circuit and the full-bridge DC-DC converter in parallel for balancing two corresponding transient powers of the double frequency boost converter circuit and the full-bridge DC-DC converter respectively.
Abstract:
A DC-to-DC converter and a method thereof is provided. The DC-to-DC converter includes a power supply for providing a first direct current, a first capacitor, a first switch assembly for converting the first direct current into a first alternating current, a transformer for converting the first alternating current to a second alternating current, a rectifying circuit for converting and rectifying the second alternating current to a second direct current, a filtering circuit, and a range winding assembly for adjusting the output voltage of the second direct current in response to the voltage drop of the first direct current.
Abstract:
A method of controlling an ignition circuit to output an excitation voltage is disclosed. The ignition circuit is used to excite a discharge lamp and includes a transformer and a switch element which is connected to a primary winding of the transformer. The method of controlling the ignition circuit comprises steps of: (a) receiving a control signal which is set in accordance with a waveform characteristic of a predetermined excitation voltage to control an impedance of the switch element; (b) controlling a primary current in the primary winding or a primary voltage across the primary winding of the transformer by controlling the impedance of the switch element; and (c) generating the excitation voltage by the secondary winding of the transformer in accordance with the primary current or the primary voltage so as to excite the discharge lamp.
Abstract:
A high intensity discharge lamp (HID) control circuit and method are provided in the present invention. The circuit includes a first winding and a second winding, both of which are coupled with a series-connected inductor of an HID lamp circuit; a current zero point detector for detecting an inductor current zero crossing signal in the HID lamp circuit; an inductor current signal generator for generating an inductor current signal in the circuit to indicate a current value of the HID lamp; a modulator having input terminals connected to the current zero point detector and the inductor current signal generator, respectively, and an output terminal connected to a driving circuit for the HID lamp; and the driving circuit for driving switches in the HID lamp control circuit.
Abstract:
The present application discloses an open circuit protecting circuit, an open circuit protecting method and an illuminating apparatus. The open circuit protecting circuit is configured in an apparatus with a LED load being supplied with power by a current source, and comprises: a switch circuit, a timer circuit and a detecting circuit. When the LED load malfunctions, the open circuit protecting circuit carries out the following operations: the detecting circuit sends an enabling signal to the timer circuit, the timer circuit sends a driving signal with a set time to the switch circuit and the switch circuit is in the on-state during the set time, so as to make the LED load be short circuited to protect the circuit from being damaged. The open circuit protecting circuit can also resume to normal work automatically after the open circuited malfunction is cleared, and thus a hot-plugging function can be realized.