• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.851-858
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• 2012

This paper presents resonant inverter tuning for current source parallel resonant induction heating systems based on a new self oscillating switching technique. The phase error is suppressed in a wide range of operating frequencies in comparison with Phase Locked Loop (PLL) techniques. The proposed switching method has the capability of tuning under fast changes in the resonant frequency. According to this switching method, a multi-frequency induction heating (IH) system is proposed by using a single inverter. In comparison with multi-level inverter based IH systems, the advantages of this technique are its simple structure, better transients and wide range of operating frequencies. A laboratory prototype was built with an operating frequency of 35 kHz to 55 kHz and 300 W of output power. The performance of the IH system shows the validity of the new switching technique.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.784-791
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• 2010

In this paper, a resonant pulse power converter (RPPC) is proposed. The proposed RPPC transfers the pulse-shape power from a DC source to a load periodically. The RPPC consists of a resonant circuit and a resonant pulse converter driven by a self-switching circuit. Depending on the magnitude difference between the input and output voltages, the operations of the RPPC are divided into 4 modes; boost mode, hybrid mode, direct mode and cut-off mode, respectively. The main switch of the RPPC turns on in the ZCS condition and off in the ZVS condition spontaneously. The operational principles of a RPPC using the self-switching technique are analyzed and verified in experiments. An example of a RPPC application is demonstrated in the area of thermoelectric energy harvesting.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

Self-exciting electronic ballast, of small size, and low cost, and high power, with no stroboscopic effect, no noise, is widely used in the general lighting market. This paper describes the cause of high switching loss of self-exciting electronic ballast, based on its operational principle; then, to reduce the switch temperature and increase the reliability of the product, the drive circuit has been improved, to achieve soft-switching. The theory analysis, simulation and experimental result prove the feasibility and compatibility of this new method in practice. Finally, the design procedure and winding method of the self-exciting current transformer are introduced.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.2783-2785
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• 1999

A fast switching gate driver suitable for high performance self resonant electronic ballasts is presented. The proposed gate driver has negligible switching loss and driving loss owing to pnpn structure and zero voltage switching( ZVS ); moreover, the gate driver has frequency control capability. Therefore, a self resonant inverter using proposed gate driver can operate as external exciting resonant inverters. The experiments confirm that the proposed gate driver perform the desired operations over full power control range for 40W fluorescent lamp electronic ballast.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.242-248
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• 2012

Self oscillating current fed push pull resonant inverters can be controlled without using special drivers. Dc current flows through the choke coil and the power switches, although the driving signals of the power switches are sinusoidal. When the base current is near zero, the transistors cannot be operated in switching mode. Hence higher switching power losses and instantaneous peak power during off transitions are observed. In this study, an alternative design has been proposed to overcome this problem. A prototype circuit has been built which provides dc bias current to the base of the transistors. Experimental results are compared with theoretical calculations to demonstrate the validity of the design. The proposed design decreases the peak and average power losses by about 8 times, when compared to conventional designs.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.22-28
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose an efficient multicast addressing scheme for he self-routing multistage networks. Using only N-bit routing header an the simple hardware logic, the new scheme can efficiently provides all point-to-multipoint connections in single pass through the multistage copy networks. We also designed a hardware logic of switching element to implementation of multicasting in ATM switches are performed.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.163-166
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• 2001

Software controlled traffic management becomes more difficult with increasing switch size, because a huge number of connections are multiplexed in a high speed switching system and each ATM connections does not have a fixed bandwidth It is based on high-speed WDM(wavelength division multiplexed) links that can multiplex a huge number of connections on a statistical basis, and a self-load balancing technique. the Proposed switching system is scalable, and achieves the non-blocking capability without the use of complicated software control, using instead a hardware self-load balancing mechanism

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.121-132
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• 2016

In this paper, high-efficiency design methodology of a zero-voltage-switching full-bridge (ZVS-FB) pulse width modulation (PWM) converter for server-computer power supply is discussed based on self-driven synchronous rectifier (SR) performance. The design approach focuses on rectifier conduction loss on the secondary side because of high output current application. Various-number parallel-connected SRs are evaluated to reduce high conduction loss. For this approach, the reliability of gate control signals produced from a self-driver is analyzed in detail to determine whether the converter achieves high efficiency. A laboratory prototype that operates at 80 kHz and rated 1 kW/12 V is built for various-number parallel combination of SRs to verify the proposed theoretical analysis and evaluations. Measurement results show that the best efficiency of the converter is 95.16%.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.915-924
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• 2016

A digital self-sustained phase shift modulation (DSSPSM) strategy that allows for good soft switching and dynamic response performance in the presence of step variations is presented in this paper. The working principle, soft switching characteristics, and voltage gain formulae of a LLC converter with DSSPSM have been provided separately. Furthermore, the method for realizing DSSPSM is proposed. Specifically, some key components of the proposed DSSPSM are carefully investigated, including a parameter variation analysis, the start-up process, and the zero-crossing capture of the resonant current. The simulation and experiment results verify the feasibility of the proposed control method. It is observed that the zero voltage switching of the switches and the zero current switching of the rectifier diodes can be easily realized in presence of step load variations.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.206-211
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 열전에너지 하베스팅을 위한 자가 리셋(self-reset) 기능을 갖는 영점 전류 스위칭(Zero-Current Switching) 회로를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 영점 전류 스위칭 회로는 전압비교기 회로에 자가 리셋 기능을 추가하여 전압비교기의 동작전류를 최소화함으로써 에너지 하베스팅 회로의 전력 소비를 줄이고 에너지 변환 효율을 향상시킬 수 있게 한다. 회로 시뮬레이션으로 본 논문에서 제안하는 영전 전류 스위칭 회로의 동작을 검증하고 성능을 평가한 결과, 열전에너지 하베스팅 회로의 출력전압-입력전압 비가 5.5 일 때, 기존의 영점 전류 스위칭 회로를 이용한 하베스팅 회로와의 비교를 통해서 본 논문의 하베스팅 회로의 전력효율이 3.4% 개선되는 것으로 평가된다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 영점 전류 스위칭 회로는 열전에너지 하베스팅의 응용 중에서 특히 저전력과 고에너지 효율 특성이 중요한 웨어러블, 바이오 헬스 관련된 하베스팅 회로의 성능 개선에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.