• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.71-85
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• 1993

The Cycloconverter that the author is going to treat in this paper, has strong advantages over the D.C. Link Inverter in points of chattering torque problem and natural commutation. Thus, the Cycloconverter is expected to be well applied to large and low-speed machines which require better speed control at low frequency. But the control circuit of Cycloconverter has two weak points described as follows. 1) Because of its rather complicated control circuit, it is likely to be illoperating due to unexpected noise signals, thus the higher the accuracy and reliability of the circuit is required to be, the more the circuit may cost. 2) Because the load current is not purely sinusoidal, the Cycloconverter may possibly be destroyed in case of inaccurate convert switching resulted from the difficulties in detecting the load current-zero and the current direction at the moment. In this paper, the author first of all intends to design and build a modified VVVF-type Noncirculating Current Cycloconverter to which recently proposed control methods are applied for improving the circuit simplicity, the control performance, and the system reliability. And then, experiments for observing the output waveforms of the Cycloconverter which is controlled by Singled-Board Computer using 8086 16-bit microprocesser are carried out. Finally the author concludes the result of this study as follows. 1) By replacing the conventional analog control circuits such as Reference Wave Generator, Cosine Timing Wave Generator, and Comparator with softwares, a great circuit simplicity is achieved. 2) The output of the designed Cycloconverter changes its frequency very fast without showing discontinuity of its waveform, and this waveform characteristics enables the smooth speed control of Induction Motor. 3) The design control circuit of Cycloconverter can be applied to the systems of 12 or 24 pulses because of its short processing period.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07a
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• pp.400-402
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• 1996

The paper describes the control strategy and hardware design for forced commutation cycloconverter which was developed for ac servo motor drive application of vector control. 12-pulse cycloconverter is used to investigate experimentally the performance of an induction motor drive system. The cycloconverter has the facility for continuous control of both the frequency and magnitude of the output voltage to keep a constant flux in the induction motors.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.318-320
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• 2007

Single-phase cycloconverters are widely used for ac-ac power conversion especially for speed control of ac drives. In this paper, a new single-phase to single-phase Z-source cycloconverter topology is proposed. The proposed single-phase Z-source cycloconverter can boost to a desired voltage with various frequency. Thus, it is called a frequency step-down and amplitude voltage step-up converter. The operating principle of the proposed topology is presented. Analysis and simulation for this single-phase Z-source cycloconverter are also presented.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.28-36
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• 2011

In this paper, a three phase cycloconverter type high frequency AC link inverter is discussed. The configuration consists of a high frequency full-bridge inverter and a high frequency transformer followed by a three phase cycloconverter whose switch is composed of anti-series connected MOSFETs with a common source. A simple digital control strategy based on space vector modulation (SVM) and repetitive control for the cycloconverter is proposed although its input voltage is a high frequency AC pulse. The operation principle of the proposed control strategy is analyzed and the equivalent working modes during one interval are also presented. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified through Matlab/Simulink simulations and experiments on a 1.45kW prototype.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.677-687
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• 2011

In this paper a cycloconverter-type high frequency transformer link inverter with a reduced switch count is analyzed and designed. The proposed topology consists of an H-bridge inverter at the transformer's primary side and a cycloconverter with three bidirectional switches at the secondary. All of the switches of the cycloconverter operate in non-resonant zero voltage and zero current switching modes. To overcome a high voltage surge problem resulting from the transformer leakage inductance, phase angle control based on natural commutation is employed. The effectiveness of the proposed inverter is verified by constructing s 750W prototype. Experimentally, the inverter is able to supply a near sinusoidal output voltage with a total harmonic distortion of less than 1%. For comparison, a PSpice simulation of the inverter is also carried out. It was found that the experimental results are in very close agreement with the simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1991.11a
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• pp.214-218
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• 1991

This paper presents a PWM controlled cycloconverter with a DC resonant circuit for Induction heating. This cycloconverter converts commercial frequency power to high frequency power directly. So conversion efficiency improved. Controlling a input reactive power regardless of load power, it has sinusoidal input current waveforms as well as a input. displacement factor at 1.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.11a
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• pp.283-286
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• 1990

This paper presents a PWM controlled cycloconverter with a LC resonant circuit for induction heating. This cycloconverter converts commercial frequency power to high frequency power directly. So conversion efficiency improved. Controlling a input reactive power regardless of load power, it has sinusoidal input current waveforms as well as a input displacement factor at 1.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1991.07a
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• pp.456-458
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• 1991

Beacause cycloconverter requires AC power converter each phase, it has the disadvantage of complexity in main system. In this paper, the simple circulating current typed cycloconverter obtained the three variable voltage and variable frequency by delta-connceting the three natual commuatation phase controled rectifiers is constructed.

• 전기의세계
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.51-56
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• 1979

The purpose of this paper is to study the conversion of single phase to three phase. In the proceeding of phase conversion, it is very convinence to convert two-phase from single phase using cycloconverter before and then two to three phase by scott connection transformer. There are also systematized zero-crossing, mono vibrator and ring counter circuit for the gate trigger circuits of cycloconverter. The wave forms of three phase by experimental results are analyzed and discussed the relation of phase difference among them.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.07a
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• pp.376-379
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• 1990

This parer presents a cycloconverter with a LC resonant circuit for a induction motor drive. The cycloconverter can provide variable voltage and frequency three phase output while keeping the input displacement factor at 1.0. The input current wave for is are sinusoidal,and the wide output frequency range is appropriate for variable speed AC motor drives.