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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1999
Nathan M. Denkin, Aberdeen, NJ (US);
Alexander Golubchik, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Bharat P. Sinha, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The monitoring of regulated redundant power supplies is enhanced by returning to each power supply a feedback (sensed) voltage signal that is indicative of the voltage level that the respective power supply is outputting and the voltage level supplied to a system load. In one embodiment, a feedback signal that is supplied to a power supply as the sensed signal is derived using a voltage divider network across the output of the power supply and a common connection at which the outputs of the power supplies are “Ored” for delivery to the system load. In this way, each power supply regulates its output voltage as a function of the level of the feedback signal and the level of a respective preset signal.