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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2008
Hiroshi Usui, Niiza, JP;
Hiroshi Usui, Niiza, JP;
Sanken Electric Co., Ltd., Niiza-shi, JP;
Abstract
An AC-DC converter includes a rectifier DB for rectifying an alternating current supplied from an alternating power source AC, a power factor controllerconnected to an output side of the rectifier DB to improve a power factor, a DC-DC converterthat converts a voltage outputted from the power factor controllerto another voltage and also outputs either a power or a current limited to a predetermined value, a capacitor for storing an energy and a two-way converterhaving one input/output terminals connected to output terminals of the DC-DC converterand the other input/output terminals connected to the capacitor to carry out a two-way power conversion.