Power supply with active energy storage to reuse the braking energy for servo drives

This paper presents a new power supply consisting of an inverter and a power factor correcting stage with an integrated active energy storage for servo drives. The energy storage is realized with a capacitor and a DC-DC-converter. This enables the power supply to reuse the braking energy of servo drives instead of losing it in a braking chopper resistor. The main advantage is the simple integration of the active storage to the power factor correcting stage.