Abstract: The specification may disclose a switching power supply operated in a discontinuous current power factor corrected mode, having multiple boost circuits or boost modules, and controlled by a digital signal processor. The digital signal processor may implement a control scheme whereby the duty cycle of the switching signals applied to the boost modules may be controlled, in part, by the amount of power delivered to the load in the previous half cycle of the source voltage. In another aspect, an output voltage correction to the switching signals may be applied at the end of each half cycle, which may result in voltage correction at twice the source frequency.

Abstract: The specification may disclose a switching power supply operated in a discontinuous current power factor corrected mode, having multiple boost circuits or boost modules, and controlled by a digital signal processor. The digital signal processor may implement a control scheme whereby the duty cycle of the switching signals applied to the boost modules may be controlled, in part, by the amount of power delivered to the load in the previous half cycle of the source voltage. In another aspect, an output voltage correction to the switching signals may be applied at the end of each half cycle, which may result in voltage correction at twice the source frequency.

Abstract: An alternating current to direct current switching power supply, with power factor correction, and having an integrated rectifying bridge and boost circuit.

Abstract: The specification discloses an alternating current to direct current switching power supply, with power factor correction, and having an integrated rectifying bridge and boost circuit that results in the use of fewer power semiconductor devices in the rectification and boosting process. The use of fewer power semiconductor devices translates into a power supply with greater efficiency and/or smaller size. More particularly, the diodes in a rectifying bridge that typically conduct power back to the alternating current power source are paralleled by power MOSFETs, and the boost inductor is coupled between the source and the modified bridge. Charging of the boost inductor takes place through the power MOSFETs, resulting in only a two MOSFET power dissipation. Discharging of the boost inductor (and therefore supplying power not the load) takes place through two diodes, and therefore two forward power losses (as opposed to three diodes and three forward conduction losses associated in the related art).

Abstract: The specification discloses a system and related method for ensuring that power supply units operated in a parallel fashion evenly distribute the load among them. More particularly, the specification discloses a system and related method for correcting current sharing signals produced by each power supply unit for offsets induced by imperfections in the electronic circuitry that produces the current sharing signals.