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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1986
Manfred Albach, Aachen, DE;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A circuit arrangement for producing a direct voltage from a sinusoidal input voltage comprising a filter required for suppressing interference voltages, a rectifier, a switched mode power supply part and a pulse generator. The pulse generator produces, from the rectified input signal, switching pulses for the combinatorial circuit part, whose frequency is varied so that it is a minimum at the maximum value of the rectified input voltage and is a maximum at the minimum value and is varied between the extreme values so that the second derivative of the frequency with respect to time is invariably zero or negative. A switching pulse is terminated when a signal proportional to the rectified input voltage is smaller than an integrated signal proportional to the output current of the rectifier.