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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2005
Kimihiko Furukawa, Kakogawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Seo, Hirakata, JP;
Yoshiaki Takahashi, Kobe, JP;
Sany Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A power supply apparatus according to the present invention includes a battery and a voltage detection circuit for detecting the voltage of the battery. The voltage detection circuit includes a differential amplifier which has a first input terminal for receiving a voltage based on the voltage of the battery and a second input terminal for receiving a predetermined triangular wave and outputs a rectangular wave with a pulse width modulated according to the voltage based on the voltage of the battery and a predetermined offset voltage, and an offset circuit which supplies the offset voltage to one of the first input terminal and the second input terminal so that the differential amplifier outputs a particular rectangular wave according to the offset voltage even when the voltage based on the voltage of the battery which is supplied to the first input terminal is 0.