• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.157-158
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• 2013

본 논문은 넓은 범위에서 변화하는 입력 전압과 출력 전류 조건에서 동작하는 디지털 제어 방식 공진형 DC-DC 컨버터의 동특성 개선에 대해 기술한다. LLC 직렬 공진형 컨버터의 아날로그 전력 변환단 동특성을 기반으로 150W 디지털 공진형 컨버터 실험보드에 적용하여 아날로그 제어 방식과 디지털 제어방식의 폐루프 성능을 비교한다. 디지털 제어기는 Emulation 방식을 이용하여 설계한다. 제어기 설계의 이론 검증 및 분석은 PSIM Simulation과 실험 측정으로 비교 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.40-41
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• 2017

New adaptive SR (synchronous rectification) control method is proposed offering high efficiency in entire load conditions for resonant converters, in this paper. Unlike the conventional SR control method where turn-on time of the MOSFETs is varied depending on load conditions due to the stray inductance induced by a lead frame of MOSFET or PCB patterns, the proposed method automatically maintains a time interval between turn-off instance of a MOSFET and zero current instance of a body diode of the MOSFET as a predetermined time, in each switching cycle. Therefore, optimized turn-on time of the MOSFET can be achieved regardless of the leakage inductance. In this paper, the operational principle of proposed control method has been discussed. It has been tested on LLC resonant converter with 240 W to verify the proposed control method.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.421-422
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• 2012

본 논문은 넓은 범위에서 변화하는 입력 전압과 출력 전류 조건에서 동작하는 공진형 직류-직류 컨버터의 디지털 제어기 해석 및 설계에 대해 기술한다. LLC 직렬 공진형 컨버터의 전력 변환단 동 특성을 기반으로 디지털 제어기를 해석 및 설계하고, DSP 기능을 내장한 16 비트 마이크로 컨트롤러를 이용하여 제어기를 구현한다. 개발된 디지털 제어기를 150W 공진형 컨버터 보드에 적용하여 설계 이론을 실험적으로 검증하고, 종래의 아날로그 제어기를 적용한 컨버터와의 장단점과 동 특성을 비교 검증한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1099-1107
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• 2019

A soft switching converter with wide voltage range operation is investigated in this paper. A series resonant converter is implemented to achieve a high circuit efficiency with soft switching characteristics on power switches and rectifier diodes. To improve the weakness of the narrow voltage range in LLC converters, an alternating current (ac) power switch is used on the primary side to select a half-bridge or full-bridge resonant circuit to implement 4:1 voltage range operation. On the secondary-side, another ac power switch is adopted to select a full-wave rectifier or voltage-doubler rectifier to achiever an additional 2:1 output voltage range. Therefore, the proposed resonant converter has the capacity for 8:1 (320V~40V) wide output voltage operation. A single-stage hybrid resonant converter is employed in the study circuit instead of a two-stage dc converter to achiever wide voltage range operation. As a result, the study converter has better converter efficiency. The theoretical analysis and circuit characteristics are verified by experiments with a prototype circuit.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.397-403
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• 2021

In this paper, phase shedding algorithm that measuring to converter's input and output parameter during real-time to control the number of driving converters is proposed. The proposed phase-shedding algorithm drives the DVR power supply with the optimal converter's combination without the loss calculation curve and the lookup table in which the efficiency is measured in advance. The proposed algorithm was implemented through a digital controller and verified in a two-modular LLC converter with a single rated power of 60 Win a 120 W DVR power supply system. Experimental results are presented to prove the validity of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.483-491
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• 2012

It is expected that, in the future, DC power service will be widely used for photovoltaic home power generation systems, since DC consuming devices are ever increasing. Instead of using multiple converters to convert DC to AC and then AC to DC, the power service could solely be based on DC. This would eliminate the need for converters, reducing the cost, complexity, and possibly increasing the efficiency. However, configuration of direct DC power service with mechanical contacts can cause spark voltage or an electric shock when the switch is turned on and off. To solve these problems, in this paper, a contactless power supply for a DC power service that can transfer electric power produced by photovoltaics to the home electric system using magnetic coupling instead of mechanical contacts has been proposed. The proposed system consists of a ZVS boost converter, a half-bridge LLC resonant converter, and a contactless transformer. This proposed contactless system eliminates the use of DC switches. To reduce the stress and loss of the boost converter switching devices, a lossless snubber with coupled inductor is applied. In this paper, a switching frequency control technique using the contactless voltage sensing circuit is also proposed and implemented for the output voltage control instead of using additional power regulators. Finally, a prototype consisted of 150W boost converter has been designed and built to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed contactless photovoltaic DC power service. Experimental results show that 74~83% overall system efficiency is obtained for the 10W~80W load.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.329-338
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• 2017

A recent trend of technical development in auxiliary-power-supplies (APS) is to replace 60Hz low frequency transformers with isolated type dc/dc converters. This paper introduces the technical trend in APS structures and proposes a power converter circuit suitable for high-efficient and light-weight APS. By utilizing the resonant converter, which achieves ZCS, to reduce switching losses, various types of APS structures (1-stage and 2-stage) are reviewed, and they are verified by simulation. The full-bridge resonant LLC converter is designed with a 1-stage power converting structure; the resonant converter topology is designed with a 2-stage power converting structure that has a pre-regulator converter to compensate for the wide input voltage range. Both a step-down converter and a step-up converter are designed and compared for the pre-regulator in the 2-stage structure. Operational characteristics are compared with simulation results and loss analyses are presented to proposes appropriate system structure and topologies.

• 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.