The present disclosure relates to a control circuit for an electric blanket. The control circuit includes a main control circuit composed of a relatively low voltage power conversion circuit, a heating main loop, a micro control unit (MCU) main control circuit, an active/passive protection circuit and a main power carrier serial port circuit. The control circuit further includes a sub-control circuit. The sub-control circuit is composed of an auxiliary power carrier serial port circuit, a sub-control power extraction circuit, an MCU sub-control circuit, a function key input circuit and a display circuit. The main control circuit and the sub-control circuit exchange operating state information and user control information through the main power carrier serial port circuit and the auxiliary power carrier serial port circuit to implement heating control of the electric blanket in a mutually cooperative control mode.

The present invention allows individual control of an output voltage of a main transformer and an output voltage of a teaser transformer while utilizing output characteristics of the respective transformer when a Scott connected transformer has control equipment arranged on the input side thereof, including first control equipment arranged in one of two phases of the main transformer on the input side in order to control a voltage or a current and second control equipment arranged in one end of a primary coil of the teaser transformer on the input side in order to control a voltage or a current, the control equipment controlling an output voltage of the main transformer and an output voltage of the teaser transformer individually.

A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load includes a thyristor, a gate coupling circuit for conducting a gate current through a gate of the thyristor, and a control circuit for controlling the gate coupling circuit to conduct the gate current through a first current path to render the thyristor conductive at a firing time during a half cycle. The gate coupling circuit is able to conduct the gate current through the first current path again after the firing time, but the gate current is not able to be conducted through the gate from a transition time before the end of the half-cycle until approximately the end of the half-cycle. The load current is able to be conducted through a second current path to the electrical load after the transition time until approximately the end of the half-cycle.

The instant disclosure concerns a power converter including: a primary stage (110) including at least one first cut-off switch (S.sub.11, S.sub.12, S.sub.13, S.sub.14); a control circuit (112) capable of applying a first control signal to said at least ore first switch; a secondary stage (130) including at least one second cut-off switch (S.sub.21, S.sub.22, S.sub.23, S.sub.24); a control circuit (132) capable of applying a second control signal to said at least one second switch; a power transmission stage (120) coupling the primary stage (110) to the secondary stage (130), wherein the control circuit (132) of the secondary stage is electrically isolated from the control circuit (112) of the primary stage.

The present invention concerns a power converter including a primary stage including at least one first cut-off switch; a control circuit capable of applying a first control signal to said at least one first switch; a secondary stage including at least one second cut-off switch; a control circuit capable of applying a second control signal to said at least one second switch; and a power transmission stage coupling the primary stage to the secondary stage, wherein the control circuit of the secondary stage is electrically isolated from the control circuit of the primary stage.

A load identification system includes an AC-power input unit, a load, a zero-crossing detector, a microcontroller, a first and a second current phase detectors. The zero-crossing detector is configured to output a zero-voltage pulse signal when a zero-crossing signal of the AC-power input unit is detected. The first current phase detector detects a current flowing through the load to output a first voltage signal. When the current flows along a first direction, the first voltage signal is at a high level. The second current phase detector is configured to detect the current flowing through the load to output a second voltage signal. When the current flows along a second direction, the second voltage signal is at a high level. The microcontroller is configured to receive and identify the type of the load according to the zero-voltage pulse signal, the first and the second voltage signals.

Power to an electrical device is controlled using a phase control that changes a cutoff phase of an alternating current (AC) electrical signal delivered to the electrical device. The power delivered to the electrical device is increased to an operational level using the phase control. A level of the power delivered to the electrical device is maintained at the operational level using an integral half cycle control that selectively removes a plurality of half cycles from the AC electrical signal delivered to the electrical device such that a plurality of remaining half cycles in the AC electrical signal delivered to the electrical device have a frequency outside a range of sub-harmonic frequencies.

The present invention allows individual control of an output voltage of a main transformer and an output voltage of a teaser transformer while utilizing output characteristics of the respective transformer when a Scott connected transformer has control equipment arranged on the input side thereof, including first control equipment arranged in one of two phases of the main transformer on the input side in order to control a voltage or a current and second control equipment arranged in one end of a primary coil of the teaser transformer on the input side in order to control a voltage or a current, the control equipment controlling an output voltage of the main transformer and an output voltage of the teaser transformer individually.

A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load includes a thyristor, a gate coupling circuit for conducting a gate current through a gate of the thyristor, and a control circuit for controlling the gate coupling circuit to conduct the gate current through a first current path to render the thyristor conductive at a firing time during a half cycle. The gate coupling circuit is able to conduct the gate current through the first current path again after the firing time, but the gate current is not able to be conducted through the gate from a transition time before the end of the half-cycle until approximately the end of the half-cycle. The load current is able to be conducted through a second current path to the electrical load after the transition time until approximately the end of the half-cycle.

A hub device and a power supply method thereof are provided. The hub device includes a power input port, first and second power output ports, a power management circuit and a controller. When first and second electronic devices are respectively connected to the first and second power output ports, the controller determines an input electric power from at least one default supply power of the power adapter based on first operating power information of the first electronic device and second operating power information of the second electronic device, so as to control the power adapter to provide the input electric power to the power input port. The power management circuit receives the input electric power to generate first and second operating power, so as to output the first operating power to the first power output port and output the second operating power to the second power output port.