• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.50 no.8
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• pp.392-401
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• 2001

This paper presents the single-stage high power factor AC to DC converter operated in active-clamp mode. The proposed converter is added active-clamping circuit to boost-flyback single-stage power factor corrected power supply. The active-clamping circuit limits voltage spikes, recycles the energy trapped in the leakage inductance, and provides a mechanism for achieving soft switching of the electronic switches to reduce the switching loss. The auxiliary switch of active-clamping circuit uses the same control and driver circuit as the main switch to reduce the additional cost and size. To verify the performance of the proposed converter, a 100W converter has been designed. The proposed converter gives good power factor correction, low line current harmonic distortions, and tight output voltage regulation, as used unity power factor.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.132-144
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• 1987

This paper presents the theroetical analysis of the crack tip stress intensity factor for a center crack in a finite width plate with variable thickness. The analyses were based on Laurent's expansions of complex stress potentials where the expansion coefficients are determined from the boundary conditions. The perturbation method was employed in numerical calculations. The correction factor F(.lambda.)is given in the form of power series of .lambda. [a numerical formula] where .lambda.=a/w$^{1}$; Dimensionless crack length, .betha.=t$_{2}$/t; Thickness ratio .omega.=w$_{2}$/w$_{1}$; width ratio The correction factor values vary with the width ratio .omega. and the maximum variation occurs around .betha.=1. For the case of .betha.=1 or .betha.=0 (uniform thickness plate0, the correction factor values agree well with Feddersen's formula. In all cases, as .lambda. approaches to 1 (thickness interface), the correction factor values are decreased rapidly for .betha.>1, and increased rapidly for .betha.<1.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.91-97
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• 2014

Recently, the LED(Light Emitting Diode) is expected to replace conventional lamps including incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lamps for some general illumination application, due to some obvious features such as high luminous efficiency, safety, long life, environment-friendly characteristics and so on. To drive the LED, a single stage PFC(Power Factor Correction) flyback converter has been adopted to satisfy the isolation, PFC and low cost. The conventional flyback LED driver has the serious disadvantage of high 120Hz output current ripple caused by the PFC operation. To overcome this drawback, a new PFC flyback with low 120Hz output current ripple is proposed in this paper. It is composed of 2 power stages, the DCM(Discontinuous Conduction Mode) flyback converter for PFC and BCM(Boundary Conduction Mode) boost converter for tightly regulated LED current. Since the link capacitor is located in the secondary side, its voltage stress is small. Moreover, since the driver is composed of 2 power stages, small output filter and link capacitor can be used. Especially, since the flyback is operated at DCM, the PFC can be automatically obtained and thus, an additional PFC IC is not necessary. Therefore, only one control IC for BCM boost converter is required. To confirm the validity of the proposed converter, theoretical analysis and experimental results from a prototype of 24W LED driver are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.986-989
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• 2002

This paper proposes a new single stage power factor correction (PFC) full bridge converter which operates at continuous conduction mode(CCM). The proposed single stage PFC consists of typical zero voltage switching(ZVS) full bridge DC/DC converter, two transformer auxiliary windings, and two small inductors, and two diodes. Neither additional active switch nor any control circuit are added for PFC resulting in very low cost. The proposed converter provides input power factor correction with CCM control and tight output voltage regulation. All switching devices are operated under ZVS with minimum voltage stress. Operation principle and analysis are explained and verified with computer simulation and experimental results on a 1.2kW, 100kHz prototype.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.153-154
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• 2016

기존 단상 AC 전원용 LLC 컨버터는 250W의 조건에서는 PFC (Power-Factor Correction, 약칭 PFC) 회로를 채용하는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 이러한 2단 전력단 형태의 회로는 자성체(인덕터) 및 제어기의 사용이 필수적이며, 이는 회로 부피 및 원가 상승의 주요한 원인이 된다. 본 논문은 DM Choke와 차지 펌프를 적용해 회로의 역률을 개선하는 방안을 제안하여, PFC Stage를 삭제하고 역률 개선 기능을 통합한 단일 전력단 LLC 컨버터를 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 회로를 이론적으로 분석하고, 190W급의 시작품을 이용한 실험적 분석을 통해 실용 가능성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.59-64
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• 2001

Transient in an electrical system are generated by lightning and switching. This paper presents analysis of switching and lightning surge, and means of limiting the voltage magnification transient for high voltage power systems by using EDSA's EMTAP software package. One means of limiting the voltage magnification transient is to convert the end-user power factor correction banks to harmonic filters. An inductance in series with the power factor correction bank was used to decrease the transient voltage at the customer bus to acceptable levees. The interception of the impulse from the phase wire is fairly straight forward by properly installed surge arresters. The simulation shows that the addition of the surge arrester at the customer location can achieve a substantial reduction of the transient magnitude.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.79-87
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• 2000

본 논문은 저 도전 손실을 갖는 새로운 단단, 단일 스위치 역률보상 부스트형 교류/직류 변환기를 소개한다. 제안한 변환기는 약간의 구조적 차이점을 제외하고 기존의 변환기와 동일하게 해석될 수 있다. 먼저, 제안한 변환기와 기존의 변환기의 동작원리를 파악하여 두 변환기의 차이점을 이해하고 1단 역률 보상 교류/직류 변환기의 구조적 문제점인 에너지 저장 커패시터에서의 직류 전압 상승을 방지하기 위한 직류 부스 전압 궤환 방식을 도입하여 제안한 변환기에 적용하였다. 100W급 변환기를 제작/실험하여 본 변환기의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.147-148
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• 2011

In this paper, implementation of digital control for critical conduction mode power factor correction (PFC) rectifier is presented. Critical conduction mode is widely used in medium and low power conversion application due to its minimized MOSFET turn-on loss and diode reverse-recovery problem. However, it needs additional zero current detection circuit and maximum frequency limit to properly turn the MOSFET on and avoid the excessive switching loss in light load operation. This paper explains the digital IC implementation and verifies its operation with 200-W prototype PFC rectifier.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1664-1672
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• 2015

This paper proposes a series arc fault detection algorithm which incorporates peak voltage and harmonic current detectors for single-phase boost power factor correction (PFC) rectifiers. The series arc fault model is also proposed to analyze the phenomenon of the arc fault and detection algorithm. For arc detection, the virtual dq transformation is utilized to detect the peak input voltage. In addition, multiple combinations of low- and high-pass filters are applied to extract the specific harmonic components which show the characteristics of the series arc fault conditions. The proposed model and the arc detection method are experimentally verified through a boost PFC rectifier prototype operating under the grid-tied condition with an artificial arc generator manufactured under the guidelines for the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 1699 standard.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.270-275
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• 1998

A new single phase power factor correction rectifier/regulator with dc linked energy feedback circuit is proposed, which is capable of achieving the zero voltage switching (ZVS) of a boost rectifier stage without any auxiliary switch. The performance of the proposed rectifier/regulator is demonstrated through a 200W, 90 KHz prototype. This proposed rectifier/regulator with dc linked energy feedback circuit is particularly suited for distributed power system applications