SYSTEM WITH ZERO POWER STANDBY MODE FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC APPARATUS

摘要

A zero power standby system for controlling electric appliances is able to wait for switch on instructions without any power consumption. This is done by a remote controller (1) transmitting power in form of either electromagnetic field, light, or audio signal to a power receiving section (2) of a control signal receiving device (13). The power receiving section will then use the received power to force a multi-switch section (7) to connect between a power supply and a control signal receiving section (9) and a control signal processing section (3) and put the appliance into its usual running mode. When a user desires to turn off the electric appliance, the system stop supplying power to the control signal receiving section (9) and the control signal processing section (3) by turning off multi-switch section (7) and put the electric appliance back to its zero power standby mode (i.e. consuming no power). Therefore, wasting of electrical energy in standby mode is thus reduced to zero.