Uninterruptible power supply and method for enabling the same to save energy
AssigneeGE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
InventorsYou Chen, Yu Ma
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Abstract
An uninterruptible power supply configured to automatically detect a load level and automatically power off and disable power supply or automatically power on and enable the power supply based on a detected load level, so that energy of a backup source of the uninterruptible power supply is not wasted and a life-cycle of the uninterruptible power supply is extended.
Claims20
An uninterruptible power supply which has a standby mode and a backup mode and configured to automatically detect a load level such that, when operating in the backup mode and when the detected load level is less than a specified level, the uninterruptible power supply is configured to automatically power off and to disable power supply to a load.
A method for enabling an uninterruptible power supply to save energy, the method comprising:
- automatically detecting a load level;
- and
- when the detected load level is less than a specified level, automatically powering off the uninterruptible power supply and disabling power supply to a load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.