• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.222-226
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• 2001

This paper compares three kinds of soft-switching circuits from viewpoints of surge suppression, load characteristic, and power efficiency for a tapped-inductor buck converter with low voltage and high current. As a result, these soft-switching techniques have achieved much higher efficiency of $80\%$ when compared with a hard-switching buck converter for the output condition of 1V and 20A.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.49-53
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• 2003

In this paper, to analyze efficiency characteristic, one of important factors in design of DC-DC converter prototype, theoretically derived power loss of individual components generating in DC-DC converter and compared theoretical results with experimental results. For evaluation of results, active clamp type Forward DC-DC converter with synchronous rectifier was composed of experimental converter. Efficiency result measured in experimental converter was compared with theoretical efficiency result derived in this paper. In comparative results, a fact that derived theoretical value and experimental value comparatively correspond have been able to verify.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.807-810
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• 2004

This is a experimental result which is reported with using 16-Bit microprocessor H8 series of Renesas company, organizing digital control which is practicable PWM embodiment, and applying switched-mode power supply. The basic topology consists of the active clamp forward DC-DC converter which is widely used for the highly efficient power supply these days. In an experiment, it incites the result to lay emphasis on the highly efficient operation of converter, and performance of digital control which is practicable PWM embodiment. And it is debated on performance of processor and condition for improving performance of part.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.615-619
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• 2004

A new asymmetrical zero voltage switching (ZVS) active clamp forward converter is proposed. Since the ripple current of secondary inductor plays a key role in the ZVS operation of main power switch, the proposed converter shows an excellent ZVS performance. The synchronous rectification is employed to reduce the rectification loss. The operational principle and ZVS analysis are presented. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed converter can achieve an excellent ZVS performance throughout all load conditions and the significant improvement in the efficiency for the 100W(5V,20A) prototype converter.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.403-405
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• 2008

This paper proposes an output inductor-less active clamp forward converter employing current boost-up circuit for high power density adaptor. By applying the proposed current boost-up circuit, the proposed converter has low conduction loss and low voltage ringing of the secondary rectifier. This paper presents the analysis of the proposed converter and a comparison between the proposed converter and the conventional converter through experiment.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.400-402
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• 2008

A new interleaved forward converter, adopting series-input parallel-output structure with a common transformer reset circuit, is proposed in this paper. Series-input structure distributes the voltage stress on switches, which makes it suitable for high input voltage application. Paralleling output stage with an interleaving technique enables the circuit handle large output current and reduces filter size. In addition, since two forward converters share one active-clamp circuit for the transformer reset, its primary structure is simplified. All these features make the proposed converter promising for high input voltage applications with high efficiency and simple structure.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.505-507
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• 2008

A conventional active-clamp forward (ACF) converter is a favorable candidate in low-to-medium power applications. However, the switches suffer from high voltage stress, i.e., sum of the input voltage and the reset capacitor voltage. Therefore, it is not suitable for high input voltage applications such as a front-end converter of which the input voltage is about 400-$V_{dc}$. To solve this problem, three-switch ACF (TS-ACF) converter, which employs two main switches and one auxiliary switch with low voltage stress, is proposed. Utilizing low-voltage rated switches, the proposed converter is promising for high input voltage applications with high efficiency and low cost.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.374-377
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• 2002

This paper presents dynamic analyses and control design of the current-mode controlled active-clamp forward-flyback converter. The circuit averaging technique is used to extract the small-signal circuit model for the power stage From the small-signal circuit model of the power stage, the open-loop transfer functions are derived and used for the compensation design. The analysis results are verified using an experimental converter that delivers a 3.3V/10A output from a $40\~60V$ input source.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.498-501
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• 2002

In the conventional PWM converter, high-frequency switching techniques was used for high-density of energy, but occurred a lot of problems such as switching losses, switching voltage/current stresses, EMI(Electromgnetic Interference) and so on. To overcome these problems, various soft switching techniques have been presented. However these techniques are focused on reducing switching losses and voltage/current stresses . The simulation and experimental results are shown that the active clamp ZVS flyback converter with the proposed RPWM(Random Pulse Width Modulation) technique reduces the conducted noise.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.636-641
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• 1998

In this paper, operation characteristics of the Zero-voltage-Switching(ZVS) mode and Non-Zero-Voltage-Switching (NZVS) mode of the active clamp (ACL) forward converter are compared through the loss analysis. The losses of semiconductor devices, transformer and passive elements of the converter are analyzed and compared for each type of operation mode. In order to verify the validity of the analysis, we have built a 50W ACL forward converter and measured the losses of the converter. From the experiment it is known that the ACL forward converter shows nearly same loss distribution for both of operation modes