• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.1067-1074
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• 2018

This paper presents a control method for variable-speed motor drives that do not use a DC-link electrolytic capacitor. The proposed circuit consists of a power factor correction converter for boosting the DC-link voltage, an inverter for driving the motor, and a small DC-link film capacitor. By employing a small DC-link capacitor, the proposed circuit that is small, and a low cost and weight are achieved. However, because the DC-link voltage varies periodically, the control of the circuit is more difficult than that of the conventional method. Using the proposed control method, an inverter can be controlled reliably even when the capacitance of the DC-link capacitor is very small. Experiments are performed using a 1.5-kW inverter with a $20-{\mu}F$ DC-link capacitor, and the experimental results are analyzed thoroughly.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.399-402
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• 2002

In this paper, the novel method is proposed to measure the capacitance of the dc link capacitor Advantage of the method is not to separate capacitor from 3-phase AC/DC/AC converters. In the proposed method, a specific low frequency current is injected to oscillate the voltage of dc capacitor at no load condition. The capacitance of dc capacitor is calculated with the effective values of this ripple voltage and current. The validity of the proposed method is confirmed by PSIM simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.1010-1011
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• 2006

A new soft switched active snubber circuit is proposed to achieve zero voltage and zero current switching for all the switching devices in PWM DC-DC converters. The unique location of the snubber capacitor and inductor ensures low current/voltage stresses and commutation losses. With a saturable reactor, the conduction loss of the auxiliary switch could be further minimized. A boost converter adopting this technique is presented as an example, to illuminate its operation principles and derive the design procedures. Simulation and hardware implementation have been made to validate its performance. Some other basic PWM DC-DC topologies using the proposed snubber have also been given.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.54 no.9
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• pp.431-436
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• 2005

This paper studies a novel boost DC-DC converter operated high efficiency for discontinuous current mode (DCM) control. The converter worked in DCM eliminates the complicated circuit control requirement, reduces a number of components, and reduces the used reactive components size. In the general DCM converter, the switching devices are turned-on the zero current switching (ZCS), and the switching devices must be switched-off at a maximum reactor current. To achieve the zero voltage switching (ZVS) at the switching turn-off, the proposed converter is constructed by using a new loss-less snubber circuit. Soft-switched operation of the proposed boost converter is verified by digital simulation and experimental results. A new boost converter achieves the soft-switching for all switching devices without increasing their voltage and current stresses. The result is that the switching loss is very low and the efficiency of boost DC-DC converter is high.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.109-117
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• 2017

This paper describes the design and implementation of a unit module for a 10 kVA class 13.2 kV/220 V unidirectional solid-state transformer (SST) with silicon-carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors. The proposed module consists of an active-front-end (AFE) converter to interface 1320 V AC voltage source to 2500 V DC link and an isolated resonant DC-DC converter for 500 V low-voltage DC output. The design approaches of the AFE and the isolated resonant DC-DC converters are addressed. The control structures of the converters are described as well. The experiments for the converters are performed, and results verify that the proposed unit module can be successfully adopted for the entire SST operation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.405-406
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• 2014

This paper presents the one direction 3-phase DC-DC converter. The converter employs DC-AC inverter, 3-phase 1:N transformer and 3-phase full wave rectification circuit make low voltage direct current to high voltage direct current. By computer simulation and experiment, the theoretical results can be verified or modified. Finally, the simulation and experiment results are presented. Compared with the general DC converter, has anti-interference ability, high reliability, high output power, range and other characteristics, widely used, fully isolated input and output, the output of the multiplexer is not limited, polar optional.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.394-402
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• 2019

This paper proposes a single-phase non-isolated onboard battery charger (OBC) for electric vehicles (EVs) that only uses small film capacitors at the DC-link of the AC-DC converter. In the proposed charger, an isolated DC-DC converter for low-voltage batteries is used as an active power decoupling (APD) circuit to absorb the ripple power when a high-voltage (HV) battery is charged. As a result, the DC-link capacitance in the AC-DC converter of the HV charging circuit can be significantly reduced without requiring any additional devices. In addition, some of the components of the proposed circuit are shared in common for the different operating modes among the AC-DC converter, LV charging circuit and active power filter. Therefore, the cost and volume of the onboard battery charger can be reduced. The effectiveness of the proposed topology has been verified by the simulation and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1199-1200
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• 2011

The low voltage DC-DC Converter(LDC) is used for various electronic devices of electric vehicle. Depending on the growth of the car, the capacity of power conversion circuits must be increased. They have to provide the high efficiency and the high load capacity. The phase shift controlled full-bridge converter can be designed for LDC. The operating characteristics are considered through by simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.97-98
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 친환경 자동차용 양방향 절연형 저전압 직류변환장치(Low voltage DC-DC converter, LDC)를 제안한다. 제안한 컨버터는 직렬 공진형 컨버터를 이용한 2단 방식으로 비절연 컨버터가 전압 및 양방향 제어를 하며 절연부는 고정듀티와 고정주파수로 동작시켜 전 부하영역에서 ZCS 턴온 및 턴오프가 가능한 장점을 갖는다. 또한 양방향 전압제어가 가능한 제어 전략을 제안하였다. 5 kW급 시작품으로 제안한 방식의 타당성을 검증하였으며 강압모드시 최고효율 95.13 %, 승압모드시 최고효율 95.08 %를 달성하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.513-514
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• 2006

As power supply managements become more important than before, supplying a stable system voltage is becoming more and more critical. In this study we propose to use the advantage of weak inversion region of MOS transistors. Analog system, which uses weak inversion region, could work in low voltage environment and reduce power consumption. The proposed buck-converter in weak inversion region of MOS transistor has been verified by silicon chip.