• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1187-1188
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• 2011

본 논문은 전기자동차(EV, Electric Vehicle) 충전기를 이용하여 차량에 충전전력을 공급할 때, 전력수요가 최저이며 차량의 운행도 하지 않는 심야시간에 충전하는 전력부하관리 방법에 대한 연구결과이다. 향후 전기자동차의 보급이 가속화 되어 전체 승용자동차의 약 10% 정도가 전기자동차로 변환된다면 이의 충전전력으로 인한 전력수요 피크가 발생할 수도 있다. 그러나 급속충전기 사용할 때와 같이 소비자가 즉각적인 충전전력사용을 원하는 경우를 제외하고는, 심야시간대의 충전용 전력요금이 상대적으로 저렴하다면 소비자는 차량이 운행하지 않는 심야시간에 충전을 선택할 가능성이 있다. 그러므로 여기서는 심야 시간에 충전을 유도할 수 있는 알고리즘을 개발하여 홈 충전기에 탑재하고 그 실증시험을 하여 사용가능성을 검증하여 보았다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1286-1287
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• 2011

최근 친환경 교통수단중 하나인 전기자동차 보급을 위한 정부정책이 강화되고, 관련연구개발 및 시범사업, 실증이 이루어지고 있다. 하지만 아직까지 국내에서는 본격적인 전기자동차 생산단계에 이르지 못하고 있고, 전기자동차 배터리에 전력을 공급하는 충전인프라 구축도 미흡한 실정이다. 전기자동차와 충전인프라는 마치 일반자동차와 주유소와의 관계와 비슷하여 전기자동차 운행을 위해 충전인프라 구축은 필수적이다. 그런데 보통 충전인프라는 전력계통, 충전기와 운영시스템 등으로 구분할 수 있다. 이 가운데 충전기는 전력을 계통으로부터 수전 받아 차량의 배터리에 공급하는 역할을 담당하며, 특히 급속 충전기의 경우 380V, 85의 교류전력을 수전하여 최대 110A, 450V 직류를 공급하는 관계로 충전 중 내부온도관리가 중요하다. 이를 관리하기 위해 적절한 냉방설비 확보, 충전전력 조정 혹은 발열원(부품) 개선 등의 방법이 있으며 이에 관해 상세히 논해보고자 한다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.438-444
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• 2019

In this paper, bidirectional LLC resonant DC/DC converters with the primary auxiliary windings in transformers of resonant circuits are proposed. Although the resonant capacitors are used on both the primary and secondary sides, regardless of the direction of power flow, the main feature of the proposed converters exhibits high gain characteristics without any mutual coupling between the resonant capacitors. For one of the proposed converters, an investigation of the operating characteristics in each mode has been carried out. A prototype of a 3.3 kW bidirectional LLC resonant converter for interfacing 750 V DC buses has been built and tested to verify the validity and applicability of the proposed converter.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.8
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• pp.1055-1063
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• 2014

Power losses of a 1-stage DC-DC converter and 2-stage DC-DC converter are compared in this paper. A phase-shift full-bridge DC-DC converter is considered as 1-stage topology. This topology has disadvantages in the stress of rectifier diodes because of the resonance between the leakage inductor of the transformer and the junction capacitor of the rectifier diode. 2-stage topology is composed of an LLC resonant full-bridge DC-DC converter and buck converter. The LLC resonant full-bridge DC-DC converter does not need an RC snubber circuit of the rectifier diode. However, there is the drawback that the switching loss of the buck converter is large due to the hard switching operation. To reduce the switching loss of the buck converter, SiC MOSFET is used. This paper analyzes and compares power losses of two topologies considering temperature condition. The validity of the power loss analysis and calculation is verified by a PSIM simulation model.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.460-465
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• 2010

The interest is coming to be high, recently with depletion of the fossil fuel and with carbon dioxide exhaust limit about emittion, from a car of Internal combustion engine to Electric vehicle. AC-DC converter is necessary to battery charging which is an electric vehicle energy storage. Necessary conditions of the converter are necessary for wide output voltage range, high efficiency, high power factor etc. It is composed two stages for wide output voltage range and insulation. Preliminary stage uses LLC resonant converter and the after stage uses BOOST converter PFC circuit for being considered a power factor and confirmed experimentally.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.165-173
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• 2022

The electrification trend of mobility increases every year due to the development of power semiconductor and battery technology. Accordingly, the development and distribution of fast chargers for electric vehicles (EVs) are in demand. In this study, we propose a design and implementation method of an LLC converter for fast chargers. Two 15 kW LLC converters are configured in parallel to have 30 kW rated output power, and the control algorithm and driving sequence are designed accordingly and verified. In addition, the improved power conversion efficiency is confirmed through zero-voltage switching (ZVS) of the LLC converter and reduction of turn-off loss through snubber capacitors. The implemented 30 kW LLC converters show a wide output voltage range of 200-950 V. Experiments applying various load conditions verify the converter performance.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1602-1613
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• 2014

The continuous growth of electric vehicles has caused electric power shortages in conventional utilities owing to the charging of electric-vehicle batteries. In order to increase the capacity of these utilities, photovoltaic systems may be an appropriate solution because of their benefits. However, a large amount of loss is generated in a conventional charging structure using photovoltaic sources owing to the many power conversion processes. This paper describes a simple integrated battery charger that utilizes a PV generation system. Moreover, the system control algorithm is deduced by analyzing the operation modes in order to control the proposed integrated system. The proposed system and algorithm are verified by a 3.3-kW prototype, resulting in an increase in the efficiency of approximately 7% to 15% compared with the conventional system. And, to examine the feasibility of the proposed system, the simulation for multi-charger with various conditions are progressed.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.25-26
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• 2015

Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) method becomes more and more popular for the Electric Vehicle (EV) battery charger due to its convenience and safety in comparison with plugged-in charger. In recent years, Lithium batteries are increasingly used in EVs and Constant Current/Constant Voltage (CC/CV) charge needs to be adopted for the high efficiency charge. However, it is not easy to design the IPT Battery Charger which can charge the battery with CC/CV charge under the wide range of load variation due to the wide range of variation in its operating frequency. This paper propose a new design and control method which makes it possible to implement the CC/CV mode charge with minimum frequency variation (less than 1kHz) during all over the charge process. A 6.6kW prototype charge has been implemented and 96.1% efficiency was achieved with 20cm air gap between the coils.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.849-859
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• 2017

This paper illustrates the analysis and design of a multi-resonant converter applied to an electric vehicle (EV) charger. Thanks to the notch resonant characteristic, the multi-resonant converter achieve soft switching and operate with a narrowed switching frequency range even with a wide output voltage range. These advantages make it suitable for battery charging applications. With two more resonant elements, the design of the chosen converter is more complex than the conventional LLC resonant converter. However, there is not a distinct design outline for the multi-resonant converters in existing articles. According to the analysis in this paper, the normalized notch frequency $f_{r2n}$ and the second series resonant frequency $f_{r3n}$ are more sensitive to the notch capacitor ratio q than the notch inductor ratio k. Then resonant capacitors should be well-designed before the other resonant elements. The peak gain of the converter depends mainly on the magnetizing inductor ratio $L_n$ and the normalized load Q. And it requires a smaller $L_n$ and Q to provide a sufficient voltage gain $M_{max}$ at ($V_{o\_max}$, $P_{o\_max}$). However, the primary current increases with $(L_nQ)^{-1}$, and results in a low efficiency. Then a detailed design procedure for the multi-resonant converter has been provided. A 3.3kW prototype with an output voltage range of 50V to 500V dc and a peak efficiency of 97.3 % is built to verify the design and effectiveness of the converter.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.393-400
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• 2014

With developed countries, nationally the supply and development of electric vehicle(EV) has been going at a rapid pace. Now, the charger specifications, charging methods and standardization of communication protocols is going in each country and a lot of company are involved in the business about those. To popularize it as existing car, it is required to build the network and infrastructure which is proper for domestic environment. It should also need to be able to develop standardized protocols can be beyond the construction of the protocol of the upper stage server and charger, and is used in a residential environment actually applied to related industries. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a home network model of EV that raised the need for a study of the charging system for EV, using M2M technology and multi-charging system tailored to the residential environment of our country.