Medical and More
Your choice of power supply can have a major impact on your embedded system’s capabilities. Power supply innovators are smoothing the way with devices designed to match application needs.
By Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
Arguably the unsung heroes of any embedded system design, power supplies and converters are critical enablers for meeting today’s needs. As embedded systems pack ever more intelligence into smaller spaces, power has direct implications on the size, cooling and mobility of any system.
To keep pace, power supply vendors continue to roll out more efficient products, new partitioning strategies and more compact solutions. In tandem to those trends, there’s a growing demand to reduce size, weight and power of system electronics. Driving those demands is a desire to fit more functionality in the same space or into a smaller footprint.
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If you look at the power supply products released over the last 12 months, there’s been a definite uptick in new products that have some sort of application or industry focus. While this hasn’t diminished the role of general purpose power supplies, the trend has been toward supplies that include either certifications, special performance specs or tailored packaging intended for a specific application area such as medical, industrial, railway or the IoT.
Power Supplies for Medical
An example along those lines in the medical space is the TDK-Lambda brand CUS150M series of AC-DC 150 W rated power supplies announced early this year by TDK (Figure 1). The device has the capability of operating in ambient temperatures of up to 85°C without the need for forced air cooling. Certified to medical and ITE standards for Class I and II (no earth ground connection) operation, the product meets both curve B radiated and conducted emissions. CUS150M target applications include medical, home healthcare, dental, test and measurement, broadcast and industrial equipment.
Figure 1
The CUS150M series of AC-DC 150 W rated power supplies are certified to medical and ITE standards for Class I and II operation. It meets both curve B radiated and conducted emissions.
Output voltage options include 12 V, 15 V, 18 V, 24 V, 28 V and 36 V models. The CUS150M operates from an 85 VAC to 264 VAC input and has operating efficiencies up to 91%. Off-load power consumption is less than 0.5 W and a 10 V to 12 V, 0.5 A fan supply is fitted as standard.
The open frame version is in the industry standard 50.8 mm x 101.6 mm (2″ x 4″) footprint with a height of 31.5 mm. Convection cooled it can deliver 120 W at 40°C, or with forced air cooling 150 W at 50°C, 140 W at 70°C and 75 W at 85°C. With the U-channel construction variant, measuring 64 mm x 116 mm x 38.5 mm, the CUS150M can be conduction cooled via a cold plate to deliver 150 W at 50°C, 100 W at 70°C and
50 W at 80°C. Cover or top fan options are also available.
Input to output isolation is 4 kVAC (2xMoPP (Means of Patient Protection)), input to ground 1.5 kVAC (1xMoPP) and output to ground 1.5 kVAC (1xMoPP) making the series suitable for B and BF rated medical equipment. Touch current is a maximum of 100 µA, with leakage current less than 250 µA. 5,000 m is the maximum operating, transportation and storage altitude.
Encapsulated Converters
Also targeting medical applications, Minmax Technology offers its Minmax MAU01M / MSCU01M series, a range of high performance 1 W medical safety approved DC-DC converters with encapsulated SIP-7 and SMD packages. They are specifically designed for medical applications. The series includes models available for input voltages of 4.5 VDC to 5.5 VDC, 10.8 VDC to 13.2 VDC, and 21.6 to
26.4 VDC. The I/O isolation is specified for 4,000 VAC with reinforced insulation and rated for a 300 VRMS working voltage.
Additional features include short circuit protection, a low leakage current of 2 μA max. and operating ambient temperature range of -40°C to 95°C. This is achieved without de-rating and with a high efficiency of up to 84%. The MAU01M / MSCU01M series conforms to the 4th edition medical EMC standard. It meets 2xMoPP per 3rd edition of IEC/EN 60601-1 and ANSI/AAMI ES60601-1. The MAU01M / MSCU01M series offers an economical solution for demanding medical instrument applications that require a certified supplementary and reinforced insulation system to comply with latest medical
safety approvals under the 2xMoPP requirements.
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Meanwhile, CUI’s Power Group added five open frame series products, ranging from
180 W up to 550 W, to its line of internal AC-DC medical power supplies (Figure 2). Certified to the medical 60601-1 edition 3.1 safety standards for 2xMoPP applications and 4th edition EMC requirements, the VMS-180, VMS-225, VMS-275, VMS-350 and VMS-550 series feature high efficiency up to 94% and high-power densities up to 30 W/in3. The devices are housed in 2″ x 4″ (50 mm x 101 mm) and 3″ x 5″ (76 mm x 127 mm) packages with profiles measuring as low as 0.75″ (19 mm), providing a compact, high density solution fokproviding a compact, high density solution for medical diagnostic equipment, medical monitoring devices and dental applications.
Figure 2
The VMS-180, VMS-225, VMS-275, VMS-350 and VMS-550 series power supplies are certified to the medical 60601-1 edition 3.1 safety standards for 2xMoPP applications and 4th edition EMC requirements.
All of these VMS series supplies provide output voltage options from 12 VDC to 58 VDC, feature wide universal input voltage ranges from 80 VAC to 264 VAC and offer no-load power consumption as low as 0.5 W. The 180 W to 550 W models also carry an input to output isolation of 4,200 VAC with leakage current ratings as low as 0.3 mA at 230 VAC. Operating temperatures range at full load from -40°C up to +50°C with forced air cooling, derating to 50% load at +70°C.
Other features include protections for over voltage, over current and short circuit, along with power factor correction and a 12 VDC / 500 mA fan output. These medical power supplies further meet EN 55011 Class B limits for conducted and radiated emissions and achieve an MTBF of 3.37 million hours, calculated per Telcordia SR-332 Issue 3. …
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