• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.24-25
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• 2017

In this paper, a low cost bridgeless interleaved power factor correction topology for electric vehicle charger application is proposed. With the proposed topology the number of switches, inductors, current sensors and associated circuits can be reduced, thereby reducing the cost of the system as compared to the conventional bridgeless PFC circuit. The reduced input current ripple by the proposed interleaved topology makes it suitable for high power applications such as electric vehicle chargers since it can reduce the size of the inductor core and the Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) problem. In the proposed topology only one current sensor is required. All the boost inductor currents can be reconstructed by sampling the output current and used to control the input current. Therefore the typical problem caused by the unequal current gain of each current sensor inherently does not exist in the proposed topology. In addition the current sharing between converters can be achieved more accurately and the high frequency distortion is decreased. The performance of the proposed converter is verified by the experimental results with a prototype of 6.6kW bridgeless interleaved PFC circuit.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.127-135
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• 2009

In this paper, the Interleaved AC/DC boost converter using two inductor with voltage-doubler characteristic when it operates with a duty cycle greater than 0.5 is proposed. Generally, the low-line(Input AC 110[V]) operation of the AC/DC boost converter is much less efficient than high-line (Input AC 220[V]) operation. The proposed Interleaved AC/DC boost converter operates as a voltage doubler at low-line. Its low-line range have higher power factor and improved efficiency compared with that of conventional converter. This research proposed the Interleaved AC/DC boost converter for voltage-doubler characteristic. The principle of operation, feature and design considerations is illustrated and the validity of verified through the experiment with a 300[W] based experimental circuit.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.1214-1216
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• 2004

Conventional Switched Mode Power Supplies(SMPS) with diode-capacitor rectifier have distorted input current waveform with high harmonic contents. Typically, these SMPS have a power factor lower than 0,65. To improve with this problem the power factor correction(PFC) circuit of power supplies has to be introduced. PFC circuit have tendency to be applied in new power supply designs. The input active power factor correction circuits can be implemented using either the two-stage or the single-stage approach. In this paper, the comparative analysis of power factor correction circuit using feedforward control with average current mode single-stage flyback method converter and two-stage converter which is combination of boost and flyback converter. The two prototypes of 50W were designed and tested a laboratory experimental. Also, the comparative analysis is confirmed by simulation and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.162-163
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• 2017

본 논문에서는, 유니버셜 입력 전압에서 높은 효율을 가지는 새로운 구조의 브리지리스 부스트 PFC 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안하는 컨버터는 두 개의 인덕터와 네 개의 GaN 스위치, 두 개의 다이오드와 SPDT 릴레이를 사용하여 입력 전압에 따라 토폴로지 변환이 가능하다. 로우라인 입력전압이 인가될 경우, 제안하는 컨버터는 기존의 인터리브드 토템폴 브리지리스 PFC 컨버터로 동작하는 반면, 하이라인 입력전압이 인가될 경우, 제안하는 컨버터는 하나의 부스트 컨버터로 동작하게 된다. 따라서 제안하는 컨버터는 유니버셜 입력전압에서 높은 효율을 가지며, 고효율을 요구하는 서버용 전원장치나 유니버셜 입력을 요구하는 기타 PFC 어플리케이션에 적용될 수 있다. 제안하는 컨버터는 유니버셜 라인 입력 ($90V_{AC}{\sim}265V_{AC}$), 400V / 1.6kW 출력의 프로토타입 컨버터를 통해 동작을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.343-348
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• 2003

In this paper, a PFC(Power Factor Correction) electronic ballast with constant voltage-fed is proposed. The proposed PFC electronic ballast is combined of a High-efficiency boost converter and a conventional half bridge inverter. It is proved that the ripple of input-current and the input-current's harmonic of the proposed PFC electronic ballast are reduced using the voltage divider and soft-switching technique. It is demonstrated that simulation results for 40[W] fluorescent lamp correspond with theoretical analysis

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.224-225
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• 2012

When Power Factor Correction(PFC) boost converter is designed for the universal input range, unwanted burst operation can be found at high line and light load. This operation may cause an audible noise from the boost inductor or sensitive flicker for human eye can be found in case of the display application. In order to solve this difficulty, this paper proposes the new control range compensation method and shows the effectiveness than the conventional method thru the experimental result.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07a
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• pp.351-354
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• 1996

A zero-voltage-transition(ZVT) full bridge (FB) boost converter for single stage power factor correction (PFC) in distributed power system is proposed. A simple auxiliary circuit provides zero-voltage-switching(ZVS) condition to all semiconductor devices without imposing additional voltage and current stresses and loss of PWM capability. The proposed boost converter provides both input power factor correction and direct conversion from $110{\sim}220VAC$ line to 300VDC bus with single power stage. Operational principle, analysis of the proposed converter are described and verified by computer simulation and experimental results from a 1.5 kW, 80 kHz laboratory prototype.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.54 no.12
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• pp.601-608
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• 2005

This paper presents a novel single-stage high-power-factor electronic ballast for fluorescent lamps operating in critical conduction mode. The proposed topology is based on integration of boost converter as power factor corrector(PFC) and a half-bridge high frequency parallel resonant inverter into a single stage. The input stage of the boost converter is operating in critical conduction mode for positive and negative half cycle voltage respectively at line frequency(60Hz). So that a boost converter makes the line current follow naturally the sinusoidal line voltage waveform. The simulated and experimental results for 100W fluorescent lamps operating at 42kHz switching frequency and 220V line voltage have been obtained. This proposed inverter will be able to be practically used as a power supply in various fields as induction heating applications, fluorescent lamp and DC-DC converter etc.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.2310-2318
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• 2018

Critical conduction mode (CRM) operation is more efficient than continuous conduction mode (CCM) operation at low power levels because of the valley switching of switches and elimination of the reverse recovery losses of boost diodes. When using a sensorless digital control method, an error occurs between the actual and the estimated current. Because of the error, it operates as CCM or discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) during CRM operation and also has an adverse effect on THD of input current. In this paper, a current sensorless technique is presented in an inverter system using a bridgeless boosted power factor correction converter, and a compensation method is proposed to reduce CRM calculation error. The validity of the proposed method is verified by simulation and experiment.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.264-269
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• 1998

A proposed soft-switching buck-boost PWM converter has a lot of advantages, Viz., electric isolation, a high power factor, low switching losses, low EMI noise, reduction of the voltage and current stresses, etc. In a new PFC converter, the switching device is replaced by the loss-less snubber circuit to achieve the zero voltage switching (ZVS) at the maximum current. However, the charging current of the capacitor in the loss-less snubber circuit distorts the input current waveforms. To improve the input current waveform, a new duty factor control method is proposed in this paper.