• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.421-431
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• 2014

A DSP-based self-adaptive proportional-integral (PI) controller to control a DC-DC converter is proposed in this paper. The full-bridge topology is adopted here to obtain higher power output capability and higher conversion efficiency. The converter adopts the zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) technique to reduce the conduction losses. A parallel secondary active clamp circuit is added to deal with the voltage overshoot and ringing effect on the transformer's secondary side. A self-adaptive PI controller is proposed to replace the traditional PI controller. Moreover, the designed converter adopts the constant-current and constant-voltage (CC-CV) output control strategy. The secondary active clamp mechanism is discussed in detail. The effectiveness of the proposed converter was experimentally verified by an IGBT-based 10kW prototype.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.367-368
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 영전류 모드로 진입한 zero voltage transition(ZVT) interleaved bi-direction low voltage DC-DC converter(IB-LDC)의 도통 손실을 최소화하기 위한 위상 제어가 제안된다. IB-LDC의 출력단 배터리가 완충되어 영전류 모드로 진입하면 IB-LDC의 입 출력 평균 전류는 0[A]로 감소하지만 보조 회로 전류는 기존의 설계 값에 의해 감소하지 않아 지속적인 도통 손실을 일으킨다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영전류 모드로 진입한 IB-LDC의 보조 회로에 ZVT 조건을 만족시키는 공진 전류만 흐르도록 하여 도통 손실을 최소화하는 위상 제어를 제안하였다. 또한 PSIM simulation 및 실험을 통해 증명하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2166-2168
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• 2005

This paper presents the frequency - dependent characteristics of leakage currents flowing through ZnO varistor. The leakage current - voltage (V-I) characteristic curves of the commercial ZnO varistor were measured. The resistive leakage current was increased with increasing the magnitude and frequency of the applied voltage in the low conduction region. The power losses of ZnO varistor increase as the frequency of applied voltage increases, because of the dielectric loss related to the frequency of the test voltage.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.689-693
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• 2001

The conventional three-level high frequency phase-shifted dc/dc converter has a disadvantage that a circulating current flows through transformer and switching devices during the freewheeling interval. Due to this circulating current and RMS current stress, conduction losses of transformer and switching devices increases. To alleviate these problems, we propose an improved three-level Zero Voltage and Zero Current Switching (ZVZCS) dc/dc converter using a tapped inductor, a snubber capacitor and two snubber diodes attached at the secondary side of transformer. The proposed ZVZCS converter is verified on a 10 kW, 30kHz experimental prototype.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1537-1543
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• 2014

This paper presents a new DC/AC multilevel converter. This configuration uses single DC sources. The proposed converter has two stages. The first stage is a DC/DC converter that can produce several DC-links in the output. The DC/DC converter is one type of boost converter and uses single inductor. The second stage is a multilevel inverter with several capacitor links. In this paper, one single input multi output DC-DC converter is used in order to voltage balancing on multilevel converter. In addition, as compare to traditional multilevel inverter, presented DC/AC multilevel converter has less on-state voltage drop and conduction losses. Finally, in order to verify the theoretical issues, simulation and experimental results are presented.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.38-46
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• 1996

The commutation operation of the current source converter for switched reluctance motor drives is analyzed in this paper. The commutation operation in the current source converter consists of two modes. At turn-off of phase switch, the phase current decreases sinusoidally, and the sum of two phase currents during commutation period is constant. At this time, the capacitor voltage increases quickly with changing polarity and decreases slowly when another phase switches turn on or off. Frequency of step-down DC chopper in the current source converter is low because of the dump such as BJTs and GTOs are possible as phase switches instead of Power MOSFET and IGBTS. They may result in reductions of conduction losses and manufacturing cost in the current source converter comparing to the voltage source converter of SRM.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.285-286
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• 2015

In this letter, a simple control method of the HB LLC converter with one additional switch and capacitor in the primary side is proposed for wide-input-voltage applications with the hold-up time conditions. At nominal input, since the proposed method enables the HB LLC converter to operate with large transformer magnetizing inductance, it can reduce the conduction and switch turn-off losses in the primary side, which makes a high efficiency. On the other hand, during the hold-up time, since the proposed method increases the resonant capacitance by turning on one additional switch, the HB LLC converter can obtain high voltage gain.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1149-1150
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• 2007

In this paper, operation of isolated current-fed full-bridge converter with active clamp is investigated by simulation and experiments. Experimental waveforms show a good agreement with the corresponding simulation results. Further, losses such as conduction loss, turn-on/off loss of MOSFETs and diodes are measured and their characteristics in the converter is addressed. 200W prototype DC-DC converter is developed for verification of the derived operating modes, design rules and loss analysis.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10c
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• pp.217-219
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• 2005

This paper presents an improved ZCT (Zero-Current-Transition) PWM DC/DC Boost Converter without additional current stress and conduction loss on the main switch during the resonance period of the auxiliary cell. The auxiliary cell consists of a resonance inductor, a resonant capacitor, an auxiliary switch and the Zero-Current-Switching ranges of the main and the auxiliary switch of the proposed converters are entirely achieved by operating the auxiliary cell. Then Improved ZCT soft switching converter will be discussed. Therefore, the proposed converter has a high efficiency. To show the superiority of this converter is verified through the experiment with a 640W, 50kHz prototype converter.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1380-1382
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• 2005

The multi-resonant converter minimizes a parasitic oscillation by using the resonant tank circuit absorbed parasitic reactance existing in a converter circuit. So it is possible that the converter operated at a high frequency has a high efficiency because the losses are reduced. However, the resonant voltage stress across a switch is four or five times a input voltage. This high voltage stress increases the conduction loss. In this paper, we proposed the AT flyback multi-resonant converter. The proposed converter can reduce the voltage stress to two or three times by using two series input capacitors. The operational principle of the proposed converter was verified through the experimental converter.