• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.71-78
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• 2002

A method of soft switching in the half bridge converter using a small saturable core is presented. For the soft switching, a small dead time of both switch off is made in a pair of MOSFET switch. The saturable core is of rectangular magnetization characteristics and the core flux swings from the minus to the plus saturation during ON time of the switch. The soft switching is realized in dead time by a resonance between the saturating inductance of the core and the stray capacitance of MOSFET. As an extension of this concept, instead of the saturable core, we propose a new soft switching circuit using a linear inductance and two switches, which is especially suitable for regulating the output and also for high frequency switching. A theoretical principle of soft switching presented here was confirmed by experiments on a half bridge converter of 1.25 KW.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.445-448
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• 2005

A new high efficiency phase shifted full bridge (PSFB) converter for sustaining power module of plasma display panel (PDP) is proposed in this paper .The proposed converter employs the rectifier of voltage doubler type without output inductor. Since it has no output inductor, the voltage stresses of the secondary rectifier diodes can be clamped at the level of the output voltage. Therefore, no dissipative resistor-capacitor (RC) snubber for rectifier diodes is needed and a high efficiency as well as low noise cutout voltage can be realized. In addition, due to elimination of the large output inductor, it features a simple structure, lower cost, less mass, and lighter weight. Furthermore, the proposed converter has wide zero voltage switching (ZVS ) ranges with low current stresses of the primary switches. Also the resonance between the leakage inductor of the transformer and the capacitor of the voltage doubler cell makes the current stresses of the primary switches and rectifier diodes reduced. In this paper, the operational principles, analysis of the proposed converter, and the experimental results are presented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.8A
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• pp.613-619
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• 2003

Bluetooth is a communication technology enabling short-range devices to be wirelessly connected. A master and one or more slave devices are connected to form a piconet, and piconets are joined to form a scatternet. The units participating in two or more piconets in a scatternet, is called bridge or gateway nodes. In order to operate the scatternet efficiently, both piconet scheduling for the master and slaves of a piconet, and scatternet scheduling for the bridge nodes are playing important roles. In this paper, we propose a traffic-adaptive dynamic scatternet scheduling algorithm based on rendezvous points and rendezvous windows. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared and analyzed with that of a static scheduling algorithm via simulations. Simulation results show that our algorithm can distribute wireless resources efficiently to bridge nodes depending on the traffic characteristics.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.600-608
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• 2016

This paper proposes a new high-efficient interleaved phase-shift full-bridge (PSFB) converter for low-voltage and high-current power systems. The proposed converter is composed of three switch-bridges and two transformers in the primary side and two rectifiers in the secondary side. Each transformer handles half of the total power with an interleaved operation, so that the proposed converter has high system reliability, as much as the conventional interleaved PSFB converter. The soft-switching characteristics of the proposed converter are better than those of the conventional converter due to the modulated primary side configuration. The proposed converter represents a single lagging-leg bridge, which has a poor soft switching condition in its operation, while the conventional converter has two lagging-leg bridges in its operation. Therefore, the number of switches having hard-switching conditions is reduced by half in the proposed converter. In addition, the reduced switch counts in the primary side of the proposed converter helps decrease the complexity of the proposed converter compared to that of the conventional converter. The operational principle and analysis are presented in this paper and the characteristics are verified using a PSIM simulation with 3kW server power specification.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.423-431
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• 2001

This paper proposes a new active common-mode voltage damper circuit that is capable of suppressing a common-mode voltage produced in the PWM VSI-fed induction motor drives. The new active common mode voltage damper is consists of a four-level half-bridge Inverter and a common mode transformer with a blocking capacitor. In order to reduce the common mode voltage and high frequency leakage current the active common mode damper applies to the PWM inverter system the compensated voltage of which the amplitude is the same as the common mode voltage and of which the polarity is opposite to the common mode voltage. Simulated using P-SPICE and experimental results show that common-mode voltage damper makes contributions to reducing a high frequency leakage current and common-mode voltage.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.11
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• pp.62-68
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• 1990

On the basis of standard Si processing, the miniaturized piezoresistive-type Si pressure sensor with a chip size of $1.7{\times}1.7{mm^2}$ was fabricated and its operating characteristics were investigated. The sensor chip has a full-bridge type of 4 boron-diffused resistors which is formed on an $1.0{\times}1.0{mm^2}$ area, $20{\mu}m$ thick n-type Si diaphragm and finally, encapsulated under room temperature, 1 atm in order to measure a gauge pressure. The operating characteristics of this sensor were determined as a pressure sensitivity of $14.2{\mu}$V/VmmHg, a rated pressure range of 0~760 mmHg, and a maximum nonlinearity of $1.0{\%}$ FS at room temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.10-13
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• 2002

In this study, we used a 16-bit microprocessor, 80C196KC for a control part in order to develop a multi-functional wheel-chair system, and implemented a joy-stick to control this system. For the complete system, we used a commercial electromotive wheelchair as a basic plant, and applied an encoder to get the rotating number of the motor to transfer data to the MCU to control the motor. We used PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) method to control the wheel-chair motor where a H-bridge circuit was configured. We used the fuzzy control algorithm for the operation of DC motor, which was attached to the electromotive wheelchair and manipulated following the change of the joystick position while a user was controlling the Joystick. He also could control the speed and direction of DC motor as well as control position information.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.12-18
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• 1994

In this study, we fabricated and characterized a calorimetric-type flow sensing element using a micromachined silicon substrate. The cooling and heating effects resulted from the gas flow were measured by two temperature sensors located at both sides of the heating resistor, and the insulator diaphragm was employed as a substrate in order to improve thermal isolation. The sensor generated $0{\sim}378.4mV$ output signal under 10V bridge-applied voltage when the nitrogen gas was passed on the sensor surface having a mass flow rate of $0{\sim}0.25grs/min$, and reached to the stable operating condition within 10 seconds.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.520-523
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• 2022

In this paper, an ESD protection device with a simpler structure than the existing ESD protection device is proposed. The proposed new structure operates an additional NPN parasitic bipolar transistor by adding an N+ diffusion region and connecting it to the bridge region, thereby lowering the current gain. As a result, it was confirmed that the proposed ESD protection device has a trigger voltage of 10.8V and a holding voltage of 6.1V. It is expected to have reliability for 5V applications and is expected to have high tolerance characteristics.

• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.189-199
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• 2004

A bridge transported servo manipulator (BTSM) system for the advanced spent fuel conditioning process (ACP) has been developed to overcome the limitation of access, which is a drawback of mechanical master-slave manipulators (MSM) for the equipment maintenance. The servo manipulator is composed of a slave manipulator attached to the telescoping tubesets equipped with the overhead bridge installed at a hot cell and a master manipulator installed at an out-of-hot cell. Each manipulator has 7 degrees-of-freedom (DOF): a body rotation, an upper-arm tilt, a lower-arm tilt, a lower-arm rotation, a wrist pan & tilt, and a grasp motion. A wire-driven mechanism for a lower-arm rotation, a wrist pan and tilt, and a grasp motion of the manipulator has been adopted to increase the handling capacity compared to the manipulator weight and decrease the friction. The main disadvantage of the wire-driven mechanism is that if one link is in motion, other links can be affected. In this paper, the transmission characteristics among the wire-driven links have been formulated to overcome this drawback. The unexpected behaviors are confirmed by analyses of transmission characteristics as well as experiments. Also, the experimental results show that the unexpected behaviors are greatly decreased by the proposed compensation equations.