Power saving uninterruptible power supply
AssigneeCyber Power System Inc.
InventorsLien-Hsun Ho, Shou-Ting Yeh, Hung-Ming Hsieh
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Abstract
The power saving uninterruptible power supply (UPS) has a first and second switches, an energy spared switch, a transformer, an automatic voltage regulator (AVR), a charger-and-inverter, a normal mode determination unit and an electric switch. When the utility power is stable, the first and second switches are connected together to supply the utility power to a load. At the time, the energy spared switch is physically disconnected with the utility power and the transformer and the AVR. Therefore, the transformer and AVR do not consume more energy of the utility power and the transforming efficiency of the UPS is increased.
Claims6
A power saving uninterruptible power supply comprising:
- two power coupling terminals adapted to connect to a utility power;
- a first switch having a common node and a first and second switching nodes, wherein the common node is connected to one of the power coupling terminals;
- a second switch having a common node and a third and fourth switching nodes, wherein the common node of the second switch is adapted to connected to a load and the third switching nodes of the second switch is connected to the first switching node of the first switch;
- a power spared switch has two nodes, wherein one node of the power spared switch is connected to first switching node of the first switch;
- a transformer having:
- a primary winding has two ends, wherein one end of the primary winding is connected to the other node of the energy spared switch and the second switching node of the first switch, and the other end is connected to the other of power coupling terminals;
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- a secondary winding;
- an automatic voltage regulator having inputs and a output, wherein the inputs are connected to the secondary winding and the output is connected to the fourth switching node of the second switch;
- a charger-and-inverter coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer to acquire a recharged power source to convert to a recharged current, and then the charger-and-inverter charges a battery;
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- a normal mode determination unit having input terminals and an output terminal, wherein the input terminals are connected to the battery and the utility power to determine a current status of the utility power and a battery capacity, and the output terminal is connected to the energy spared switch, and the normal mode determination unit drives the energy spared switch according to a determination result.
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