• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.116-123
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• 2014

In this paper, a soft-switching scheme for the PWM interleaved buck converter(IBC) is newly proposed to obtain the advantages of both the conventional PWM interleaved buck and resonant converters such as ease of control, reduced switching losses and stresses, and low EMI. To obtain the soft-switching action, the proposed scheme employs an auxiliary circuit, which is added to the conventional interleaved buck converter and used to achieve soft-switching for both the main switches and the output diodes while not incurring any additional losses due to the auxiliary circuit itself. In this paper, the basic operations are discussed and design guidelines are presented. And through the experimental results, the usefulness of the proposed converter is verified.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.356-363
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• 2018

The combination of a buck converter and a forward converter can be considered to accomplish a high step-down non-isolated converter. To decrease the insufficient step-down ratio of a regular buck converter and to distribute switch voltage stress, a forward-integrated buck (FIB) converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed interleaved DC-DC converter provides an additional step-down gain with the help of a forward converter. In addition to its simple structure, the transformer flux reset problem is solved and an additional magnetic core reset winding is not required. The operational principle and an analysis of the proposed FIB converter are presented and verified by experimental results obtained with a 240 W, 150 V/24 V prototype.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.12
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• pp.2396-2401
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• 2009

The three-phase buck-boost DC-AC inverter generates three alternating output voltages as the differential voltage of three DC-DC individual buck-boost converters. Three converters are driven with three DC-biased and 1200 phase-shifted sinusoidal references. The peak value of the inverter alternating output voltage can be larger or smaller than the value of the direct input voltage. In this paper, a three-phase buck-boost DC-AC inverter is designed and implemented on a prototype with digital controller using a microcontroller.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.749-753
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• 2003

This paper presents an output voltage regulation system using PWM Buck-Boost AC-AC converter for power qualify improvement of custom power. This paper proposes dynamic modeling of the system for control object and in addition, a controller design example. Therefore, system state equation is derived whereby the transfer function could be obtained. The paper shows a regulation controller for tracking the output voltage to the reference under specific operating point. Finally, this paper shows validity and practical applicability of the proposed modelling and system design by experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.330-337
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• 1998

A duty cycle average model is mathematically developed for an average model of buck converter employing hysteresis c control. The derived model is able to simultaneously deal with both the continuous conduction mode (CCM) and the d discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) in the time domain. Also. taking advantage of the MAST language of SABER. a t template of the proposed duty cycle average model is built for the time and frequency domain analyses. The accuracy of t this template is verified through the computer simulations.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.154-158
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• 2003

This paper presents an improved soft switching buck converter using a non-dissipative snubber, which is composed of a tapped inductor, two snubber capacitors and three snubber diodes. The proposed buck converter achieves zero voltage turn-off in the main switch and freewheeling diode. The Proposed Soft Switching buck converter is verified through the simulation, relevant equations, analysis and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.154-155
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• 2010

본 논문은 최소의 스위칭 소자를 이용한 절연형 Full-Bridge (FB) buck-boost DC-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 기존의 dual-bridge 방식을 이용한 buck-boost 컨버터와는 달리 본 논문에서 제안한 방식은 변압기 1차측에만 스위칭 소자를 사용하고 2차측에는 다이오드 정류기를 사용한다. 필요한 buck-boost 기능을 구현하기 위하여 입력단에 2개의 인덕터를 추가하여 2 phase interleaved 방식으로 동작을 한다. 500 W 의 prototype을 제작하여 본 논문에서 제안한 방식의 타당성을 실험적으로 검증 한다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.496-502
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• 2006

In this paper, we studied the development of the electronic ballast for 250W MH (Metal-Halide) lamps. We were able to improve the input power factor by using a PFC IC. To provide the lamp with the rated voltage required, we used the buck-type dc-dc converter. The stress of the switching devices in the inverter could be reduced by this method. To eliminate the acoustic resonance phenomena of MH lamps, the voltage of the lamp added the high frequency sine-wave to the low frequency square-wave by using the full bridge typed inverter. We have developed a simple igniter using the L and C elements. We could control the dimness of the lamp by varying the output voltage of the buck converter. The buck converter output voltage could be controlled by using a microprocessor.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.3
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• pp.560-565
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• 2011

This paper proposes the design of micro energy harvesting system by using thermoplastic polyurethane(TPU), which harvests electric energy from the kinetic energy of pedestrian and drives the desired load, and applied it to the self-generating shoes. Also, we designed the buck-boost converter in discontinuous conduction mode(DCM) which functions as a resistor emulator(RE) such that converter's average input current is proportional to input voltage, and it results in transfer of maximum power to buck-boost converter according to control behavior that converter's input resistance is matched with TPU's internal resistance. Therefore, this paper confirms the validity of proposed control scheme and possibility of application for self-generating shoes, from the obtained characteristic of designed micro energy harvesting system by using a TPU and buck-boost converter in DCM.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.133-136
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• 2002

This paper presents m improved soft switching Buck converter using an energy recovery snubber which is composed of a tapped inductor, two snubber capacitors and three snubber diodes. The proposed Buck converter achieves zero voltage turn-of in the main power switch md freewheeling diode. The operating Principle of the Proposed Buck converter is described through the simulation, relevant equation and analysis.