• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.33-38
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• 1997

전기자동차용 배터리 충전회로에는 일반적으로 다양한 전력용 반도체 스위칭 소자들이 사용되고 있다. 따라서 사용소자의 비선형성에 기인하는 고조파 발생과 큰 피크전류, 낮은 역률 등으로 부근에 있는 전력시스템에 과도기전류나 파형 왜곡 현상을 발생한다. 그리하여 최근에는 기존의 정류회로에서 무시되었던 역율제어, 선 전류의 피크치 억제, 고조파 발생문제 등이 보다 중요하게 되었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존의 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 전압 상승특성을 개선하고 역율이 0.97이상인 고역율 배터리 충전기용 콘버어터 회로를 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템은 정류된 직류전압을 고주파 인버어터에서 교류 공진파로 변환하고, 고주파 트랜스를 통과한 전압을 다시 정류하여 직류전압으로 변환한다. 특히, 이러한 콘버어터의 사용효과는 역율제어에 의해서 크게 개선될 수 있는데, 납축전지를 이용한 실험을 통해 그 타당성을 입증하고자 한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1074-1076
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• 2000

This Paper reports on an experimental and theoretical work about self exited Half-Bridge inverter for contact less battery chargers. The steady state characteristics of inverter are analysis and the experimental result for 500kHz, universal AC source input have been obtained. These inverter is suitable for the portable appliances with battery chargers such as cellular phone.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.197-198
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• 2018

This paper proposes a novel hybrid converter topology suitable for electric vehicle on-board battery chargers, which is a combination of the full-bridge (FB) and half-bridge (HB) LLC circuits. A full load controllability under wide output voltage range can be achieved with a small resonant inductance, which increases the efficiency and lowers the size and cost. Simulation results are shown to evaluate the dynamic performance of the proposed converter.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2015년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.195-196
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• 2015

This paper investigates the design of coupled inductor for minimum inductor current ripple in rapid traction battery charger systems. Based on the general circuit model of coupled inductor together with the operating principles of dc-dc converter, the relationship between the ripple size of inductor current and the coupling factor is derived under the different duty ratio. The optimal coupling factor which corresponds to a minimum inductor ripple current becomes -0.5, i.e. a complete inverse coupling without leakage inductance, as the steady-state duty ratio operating point approaches 1/3 or 2/3. In an opposite manner, the optimal coupling factor value of zero, i.e. zero mutual inductance, is required when the steady-state duty ratio operating point approaches either zero or one. Coupled inductors having optimal coupling factor can minimize the ripple current of inductor and battery current resulting in a reliable and efficient operation of battery chargers.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.394-402
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• 2019

This paper proposes a single-phase non-isolated onboard battery charger (OBC) for electric vehicles (EVs) that only uses small film capacitors at the DC-link of the AC-DC converter. In the proposed charger, an isolated DC-DC converter for low-voltage batteries is used as an active power decoupling (APD) circuit to absorb the ripple power when a high-voltage (HV) battery is charged. As a result, the DC-link capacitance in the AC-DC converter of the HV charging circuit can be significantly reduced without requiring any additional devices. In addition, some of the components of the proposed circuit are shared in common for the different operating modes among the AC-DC converter, LV charging circuit and active power filter. Therefore, the cost and volume of the onboard battery charger can be reduced. The effectiveness of the proposed topology has been verified by the simulation and experimental results.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.511-521
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• 2014

This study proposes an electric vehicle (EV) smart panel board and its control method on the basis of charging scheduling. The proposed system consists of batteries, a three-phase battery charger, three single-phase inverters, transfer switches for electric power distribution, and a controller. The three-phase battery charger usually charges the batteries at midnight when electric rates are cheap and in light load. When the electric power consumption of the EV standard chargers connected to one phase of the power line is relatively large or when a blackout occurs, the electric power stored in the battery is supplied by discharging through the inverters to the EV standard chargers. As a result, the value of peak load and the charging electric power quantity supplied from a utility grid are reduced, and the current unbalance is improved. The usefulness of the proposed system is confirmed through simulations, experiments, and case studies.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.479-490
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• 2015

The conventional phase-shifted full-bridge (PSFB) converter with an LC filter has been widely used for high-power applications of over 1.0 kW. However, the PSFB converter cannot obtain optimal power conversion efficiency during the battery charging in electric vehicle (EV) on-board battery charger applications because of its unique drawbacks, such as a large circulating current and very high voltage stress in the rectifier diodes. As a result, the converters with a capacitive filter, such as LLC resonant converters, replace the PSFB converter in the EV chargers. This study analyzes the problems of the PSFB converter for EV on-board charger applications in detail. Moreover, the newest converters based on the conventional PSFB converter are reviewed. On the basis of the reviews, new PSFB converter topologies are proposed for EV charger applications. The new topologies are formed by connecting the rectifier stage in the PSFB converter with the output of an LLC resonant converter in series. Many problems of the conventional PSFB converter for EV charger applications can be solved and the performance can be more improved because of this structure; this idea is confirmed by an experiment consisting of prototype battery chargers under the output voltage range of 250-450 Vdc at 3.3 kW.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.1886-1891
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• 1998

Traction battery chargers are an integral part of the required charging infrastructure. EV charging systems are continuing to improve in design. The newer types are affecting power quality to a much lesser extent. High efficiency battery chargers are being designed and produced which form little or no harmonic distortion. In addition chargers are becoming smaller and lighter. This is due mainly to the fact that there are improvements in the power electronics industry, especially with respected to IGBTs. Lower costs are achieved by the reduction in price of the IGBTs, standard magnetic material and small cores for inductors and transformers. But electric vehicles occupy a relatively small market niche at present. Therefore with already existing power supply networks, establishment of EV infrastructure can safeguard the service value of present vehicle as well as ensure the ability to charge a significant number of such vehicle. In this paper, we surveyed the update charging technologies according to the conductive charging, inductive charging and fast charging. Then we suggested cost-optimized charging infrastructure in consideration of the economical, political and technical standpoint.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2017

A novel voltage-fed single-stage power factor correction (PFC) full-bridge converter based on asymmetric phase-shifted control for battery chargers is proposed in this paper. The attractive feature of the proposed converter is that it can operate in a wide output voltage range without an output low-frequency ripple, which is indispensable in battery charger applications. Meanwhile, the converter can maintain a high power factor and a controllable dc bus voltage over a wide output voltage range. In this paper, the realization of PFC and the operation principle of asymmetric phase-shifted control are given. A small-signal analysis of the proposed single-stage power factor correction (PFC) full-bridge converter is performed. Experimental results obtained from a 1kW experimental prototype are given to validate the feasibility of the proposed converter. The PF is higher than 0.97 over the entire output voltage range with the proposed control strategy.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.141-145
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 휴대용 전자기기에 널리 사용되고 있는 리튬-이온 충전용 전원 모듈에서 발열을 줄이면서 배터리의 충전 시간을 단축하기 위한 기법을 연구하였다. 제안하는 기법은 마스터 충전 모듈과 슬레이브 충전 모듈로 구성된 다중 충전 모듈을 이용하여 병렬적인 전류 경로를 구성하면서 단일 선로 통신 방식을 적용함으로써 추가적인 하드웨어를 최소화하여 충전 회로를 매우 간단하게 구성할 수 있도록 하였다. 마스터 충전 모듈과 슬레이브 충전 모듈 간의 단일 선로 통신 방식은 필요 부품의 핀 개수를 최소화하고 디지털 통신 방식을 사용하지 않고 전압 레벨을 이용한 통신 방식을 적용하였기 때문에 구현 면적이 줄어들고 비용적인 측면에서도 유리한 장점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제안한 충전 기법은 고속의 충전을 필요로 하는 충전식 전원 모듈의 구현에 실용적으로 적용 가능할 것으로 기대한다.