• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
• /
• 2002.07a
• /
• pp.253-256
• /
• 2002

This paper proposes the application of coreless PCB transformer to Half-Bridge (HB), Zero-voltage-Switched (ZVS) DC/DC converter for FPL lamp with electronic ballast in vehicle. The designed 5 coreless PCB transformers for ballast driving voltage are parallel-connected in primary windings and series-connected in secondary windings. Coreless PCB transformer is designed to have spiral winding in order to transfer higher energy. The computer simulations of the proposed power circuit show coreless PCB transformer to have good performance.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
• /
• v.9 no.4
• /
• pp.168-174
• /
• 2005

A coreless electronic transformer is proposed. Conventional iron cored transformer is heavy and bulky and it has substantial amount of no load loss. On the other hand, electronic transformer can be made of negligible no load loss and is small size and lightweight. It consists of rectifier and PWM inverter. Electronic transformer is easily modeled to conventional Buck converter; therefore, output voltage is controlled by duty ratio. It is thought to be suitable for applications where the operation duty is low. In this paper, a novel coreless transformer is proposed, then it's detailed analysis, simulative and experimental results are presented

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
• /
• 2000.07a
• /
• pp.505-508
• /
• 2000

A coreless printed circuit board(PCB) transformer is employed in a contactless energy transfer circuit that achieves an efficient power conversion at the presence of a considerable airgap between the source and the load side. A half-bridge series resonant converter is selected as the contactless energy transfer circuit in order to minimize the detrimental effects of large leakage inductance small magnetizing inductance and poor coupling coefficient of the coreless PCB transformer. The operation and performance of the proposed contactless power converter are verified on a 7 W experimental circuit that provides an 18V/0.4A output from a 210-370 V input source.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
• /
• 2000.06e
• /
• pp.9-12
• /
• 2000

This paper describes the modeling and experimental results of coreless printed circuit board (PCB) based transformer that can be used for power conversion at high frequency operation. The principle of using coreless PCB based transformer in 2MHz, 10W class ZVS Flyback DC-DC converter has been successfully demonstrated. The maximum power conversion efficiency is 79%. Even for high operating frequency, an efficiency greater than 70% can be obtained with under 1% regulation error.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
• /
• v.66 no.4
• /
• pp.636-642
• /
• 2017

Recently, new power devices, SiC and GaN FETs, are commercialized. They are expected to change power electronics environments. They will raise operating frequencies of power electronic equipments. Accordingly, design method will be changed greatly. In this paper, an 1 MHz resonant converter with fully compensated coreless isolation transformer is proposed, where the primary voltage is proportional to the secondary current and the primary current to the secondary voltage. 30 W prototype is constructed and tested, and its usefulness is verified.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
• /
• 2000.07a
• /
• pp.159-162
• /
• 2000

In his paper the principle of using coreless printed circuit board (PCB) based transformer in 2.3MHz, 12W class ZVS Forward DC-DC converter has been successfully demonstrated. With no core loss coreless PCB transformer and inductor are found to have favorable characteristics at high frequency operations. The maximum power conversion efficiency is 80% Even for high operating frequency an efficiency greater than 70% can be obtained with under 0.7% regulation error.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
• /
• 2001.10a
• /
• pp.1-6
• /
• 2001

In this article, the fundamental concept, characteristics and application potentials of coreless printed-circuit-board (PCB) transformers are described. Coreless PCB transformers do not have the limitations associated with magnetic cores, such as the frequency limitation, magnetic saturation and core losses. In addition, they eliminate the manual winding process and its associated problems, including labor cost, reliability problems and difficulties in ensuring transformer quality in the manufacturing process. The parameters of the printed windings can be precisely controlled in modern PCB technology. Because of the drastic reduction in the vertical dimension, coreless PCB transformers can achieve high power density and are suitable for applications in which stringent height requirements for the circuits have to be met. A transformer's power density of $24W/cm^2$ has been reported in a power conversion application. When used in an isolation amplifier application, coreless PCB transformers tested so far enable the amplifier to achieve a remarkable linear frequency range of 1MHz, which is almost eight times higher than the frequency range of 120kHz in existing Integrated-Circuit products. PCB materials offer extremely high isolation voltage, typically from 15kV to 40kV, which is higher than many other isolation means such as optocouplers. It is envisaged that coreless PCB transformers can replace traditional core-based transformers in some industrial applications. Their application potentials deserve more attention and exploration.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
• /
• v.38 no.4
• /
• pp.37-44
• /
• 2001

The experimental results and application potentials of a ZVS Forward DC-DC converter based coreless PCB transformer and coreless inductor are presented. The experimental converter, that has a maximum power of 12W, maximum switching frequency of 2.2MHz and nominal input voltage of 24V, has been successfully implemented. The coreless PCB transformer and inductor are found to have many favorable characteristics to high frequency operations due to the absence of a core loss. A power conversion efficiency of the experimental converter was measured at 70${\sim}$80%, and the output was regulated at 12V within 0.7% tolerance.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
• /
• 2002.07a
• /
• pp.476-479
• /
• 2002

The proposed DC/DC converter employs a pair of neighboring printed-circuit-board windings as a coreless transformer Thus, the proposed DC/DC converter can be fabricated In an ultra low-profile fashion. The performance of the proposed low-profile DC/DC converter is confirmed with experiments on a prototype converter that delivers 58W of power at the maximum efficiency of $84\%$.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
• /
• 2011.10a
• /
• pp.703-706
• /
• 2011

Contactless systems use electromagnetic fields to transport power from railway substation to the traction system. In Korea Railroad Research Institute, KRRI, the RIPS (Railway Inductive Power Supply), has been developed. The RIPS is based on a contactless transformer with a fixed coreless primary and a moving core, compared with E shape and U shape, in the secondary. The primary coil is supply with 20 kHz current which produces a magnetic flux in the secondary core. Further this flux induces a current in the secondary coil.