• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.208-216
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• 2018

In this paper, an LLC resonant converter employing two coupled inductors on the secondary side of the converter is proposed. The conventional LLC converter exhibits serious power loss during secondary winding of the transformer because of generation of tremendous output current ripples. To overcome this problem, an LLC resonant converter with a current doubler as a rectifying circuit was recently proposed. However, the current-doubler rectifying circuit requires coupled inductors with a high coupling ratio to retain the designed resonance characteristics. Therefore, an additional hardware filter is required at the output stage to address large output current ripples. Additional design procedures are also necessary because the inductance component of the added filter affects the designed resonant network. To solve this issue, an LLC resonant converter employing two coupled inductors is proposed in this paper. Mathematical analysis shows that the proposed secondary-side current-doubler circuit does not affect the designed resonance characteristics. The operating principles and theoretical analyses are proven through a simulation and experiments with a 54 V/28 A prototype.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.127-133
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• 2010

In the paper, reactorless high efficiency boost DC/DC converter for EV is proposed. In proposed converter, improves efficiency because decrease power loss when the switches are turned on/off using zero current switching (ZCS) at all switch of primary full bridge. By replacing reactance ingredients of L-C resonance circuit for ZCS with leakage inductance ingredients of high frequency transformer, it reduces system size and expense because of not add special reactor. For validity verification of proposed converter, in the paper implements simulation using PSIM and perform experiment by making 5KW DC/DC converter. In experimental results, efficiency of proposed converter conformed superiority.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.216-223
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• 2006

The high efficiency full-bridge LLC resonant converter using a contact-less transformer Is proposed for the photovoltaic power generation system. For the series resonance with a series capacitor, the LLC resonant converter utilizes the leakage inductance and magnetizing inductance of a contact-less transformer Unlike the conventional series resonant converter operated to the continuous resonant current at above resonance frequency, the proposed converter operates to the discontinuous resonant current at the narrow frequency control range below resonance frequency. Due to the discontinuous mode resonant current, the proposed converter can be achieved the zero voltage switching (ZVS) in the primary switches and the zero current switching (ZCS) in the secondary rectification diodes without my auxiliary circuit. In this paper, the experimental results of the proposed full-bridge LLC resonant converter using a contact-less transformer are verified on the simulation based on the theoretical analysis and the 150W experimental prototype.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.66-68
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• 2003

This paper proposes the single stage boost input type resonant AC-DC converter. Proposed converter uses the resonance between leakage inductance of the transformer and resonance capacitance. And it obtains high power factor more than 98$\%$ through continuous current mode pulse width modulation. To verify the validity of the proposed converter, operation principle In the steady state is analyzed and experimental results are presented.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.496-502
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• 2006

In this paper, we studied the development of the electronic ballast for 250W MH (Metal-Halide) lamps. We were able to improve the input power factor by using a PFC IC. To provide the lamp with the rated voltage required, we used the buck-type dc-dc converter. The stress of the switching devices in the inverter could be reduced by this method. To eliminate the acoustic resonance phenomena of MH lamps, the voltage of the lamp added the high frequency sine-wave to the low frequency square-wave by using the full bridge typed inverter. We have developed a simple igniter using the L and C elements. We could control the dimness of the lamp by varying the output voltage of the buck converter. The buck converter output voltage could be controlled by using a microprocessor.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.2335-2343
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• 2018

This paper proposes an optimal damping control algorithm of the DTI (Direct Two-level Inverter) to miniaturize and reduce the weight of auxiliary power supply for railway vehicles. The conventional auxiliary power supply for railway vehicles uses a DC-DC converter to maintain the inverter input power from the line voltage smoothly. The proposed topology does not use a DC-DC converter for reducing of manufacturing and maintenance costs. It also proposes a DTI topology removed damping resistors that generate ground signal noise in a certain period. At this time, a resonance phenomenon of DC-link voltage occurs due to variation of the inductive load, and a method of controlling the resonance phenomenon of DC-link voltage is required. In order to suppress the resonance phenomenon of the DC-link voltage, at a point before resonance occurs, this paper introduces an algorithm to suppress the resonance phenomenon of DC-link voltage by compensating the resonance component of the q axis voltage of the synchronous reference frame. The proposed algorithm verifies the effect through simulation and experiment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.2208-2209
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• 2011

In this paper, the contactless power transfer using inductive power collector in order to apply to the vehicle such as the electric railway vehicle system is suggested and some ideas for power collector design to improve the power transfer performance are presented. This paper was presented for the transfer characteristic of power from input to output by resonance converter.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.159-160
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• 2015

Recently, it is increased to use the portable device with small size. It is also increasing for demand of a small size adapter. To reduce the size of components, switching frequency has to be increased. But it causes higher switching loss and temperature of components. Especially, the temperature of adapter must be limited because adapter can be easily touched when portable device is being charged. To reduce temperature of adapter, high efficiency is essential. To solve this problem, this paper proposes design of resonance frequency optimization for LLC converter with high efficiency and low temperature of passive components.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2004

This paper proposes the novel boost input type resonant AC/DC converter. Since the proposed converter is single stage topology, it controls both of the input power factor and the output voltage at the same time, and resultingly obtains the high power factor of 99% with average current mode pulse width modulation. Especially, to accomplish the zero voltage switching, the resonance between the leakage inductance and external capacitor is used. For the theoretical consideration of the proposed converter, the six operation modes divided by means of current path are discussed, and the resonance characteristics in steady state are analyzed. To verify the validity of the proposed converter, a 200[W]($120[V_AC],\; 출력\; 48[V_DC],\; 4[A]$prototype converter was built and its experimental results were presented in this paper.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.432-440
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• 2010

In this paper, a LC series resonant boost converter using a single switch is proposed. The proposed topology contains additional passive elements in the conventional boost converter and performs Zero Voltage Switching(ZVS) without an additional auxiliary switch when a main switch turned on and off. The switch off time of the proposed system determined by LC series resonance, thus a on-time variable Pulse Frequency Modulation(PFM) method is adapted to control output voltage in the proposed converter. Operational modes of the proposed topology are divided with respected to the current conduction paths and then through the theoretical analysis and experimental results, operational modes and characteristics of the proposed converter are verified.