• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제5B권4호
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• pp.366-373
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• 2005

This paper presents two new circuit topologies of the dc busline side active resonant snubber assisted voltage source high frequency link soft switching PWM full-bridge dc-dc power converters acceptable for either utility ac 200V-rms or ac 400V-rms input grid. These high frequency switching dc-dc converters proposed in this paper are composed of a typical voltage source-fed full-bridge PWM inverter, high frequency transformer with center tap, high frequency diode rectifier with inductor input filter and dc busline side series switches with the aid of a dc busline parallel capacitive lossless snubber. All the active switches in the full-bridge arms as well as dc busline snubber can achieve ZCS turn-on and ZVS turn-off transition commutation with the aid of a transformer leakage inductive component and consequently the total switching power losses can be effectively reduced. So that, a high switching frequency operation of IGBTs in the voltage source full bridge inverter can be actually designed more than about 20 kHz. It is confirmed that the more the switching frequency of full-bridge soft switching inverter increases, the more soft switching PWM dc-dc converter with a high frequency transformer link has remarkable advantages for its power conversion efficiency and power density implementations as compared with the conventional hard switching PWM inverter type dc-dc power converter. The effectiveness of these new dc-dc power converter topologies can be proved to be more suitable for low voltage and large current dc-dc power supply as arc welding equipment from a practical point of view.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.394-399
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• 2007

In this paper, we study on a novel Buck-Boost converter of high efficiency by soft switching method. The proposed Buck-Boost converter is applied to new soft switching method in restraint of increment of switching power loss in the conventional Buck-Boost converter. The soft switching circuit is designed to modification of a energy storage inductor and a snubber circuit used by the conventional converter, and then the proposed converter is simplified. The controlling switches of the proposed converter is operated with soft switching by a partial resonance behavior. The output voltage of the converter is regulated by PWM control technique. The discontinuous mode action of current flowing into inductor makes to simplify control method and control components. The proposed Buck-Boost converter is compared with the conventional converter. Some computer simulative results and experimental results are confirmed to the validity of the analytical results.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.335-342
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• 2012

This paper is studied on a new DCM-ZVS step up-down AC-DC converter of high performance, that is, high system efficiency and power factor correction (PFC). The switching devices in the proposed converter are operated by soft switching technique using a new quasi-resonant circuit, and are driven with discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) according to pulse width modulation (PWM). The quasi-resonant circuit uses a step up-down inductor and a loss-less snubber capacitor. The proposed converter with DCM also simplifies the requirement of control circuits and reduces the number of control components. The input AC current waveform in the proposed converter becomes a quasi-sinusoidal waveform proportional to the magnitude of input AC voltage under constant switching frequency. As a result, the proposed converter obtains low switching power loss and high efficiency, and its input power factor is nearly in unity. The validity of the analytical findings is confirmed by some computer simulation results and experimental results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2006

In this paper, authors propose a step-up converter of pulse width modulation (PWM) and power factor correction (PFC) by using a novel loss-less snubber. The proposed converter for a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) eliminates the complicated circuit control requirement and reduces the size of components. The input current waveform in the proposed converter is got to be a sinusoidal form of discontinuous pulse in proportion to magnitude of ac input voltage under the constant duty cycle switching. Thereupon, the input power factor is nearly unity and the control method is simple. In the general DCM converters, the switching devices are fumed-on with the zero current switching (ZCS), and the switching devices must be switched-off at a maximum reactor current. To achieve a soft switching (ZCS and ZVS) of the switching turn-off, the proposed converter is constructed by using a new loss-less snubber which is operated with a partial resonant circuit. The result is that the switching loss is very low and the efficiency of converter is high. Some simulative results on computer and experimental results are included to confirm the validity of the analytical results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 연구회 합동 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.39-43
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• 1998

A large number of soft switching topologies included a resonant circuit have been proposed. But these circuits increase number of switch in circuit and complicate sequence of switching operation. In this paper, the authors propose power conversion system, DC-AC inverter of high efficiency and high power factor with soft switching mode by partial resonant method. The switching devices in a proposed circuits are operated with soft switching by the partial resonant method, that is, PRS2MPC (Partial Resonant Soft Switching Mode Power Converter). The result is that the switching loss is very low and the efficiency of system is high. And the snubber condenser used in partial resonant circuit makes charging energy regenerated at input power source for resonant operation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 1993년도 정기총회 및 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.148-150
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• 1993

The IGBT(Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) is a power semiconductor device that has gained acceptance among power electronic circuit design engineers for motor drive and Power converter applications. The device-circuit interaction of power insulated gate bipolar transistor for a series-inductor load, both with and without a snubber are, simulated. An analytical model for the transient operation of the IGBT is used in conjunction with the load circuit state equations for the simulations.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.1966-1968
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• 1998

This paper describes a gate drive circuit for series connected IGBTs in high voltage applications. The proposed control criterion of the gate circuit is to actively limit the voltages during switching transients, while minimizing switching transient and losses. In order to achieve the control criterion, an analog closed loop control scheme is adopted. The performance of gate drive circuit is examined experimentally by the series connection of three IGBTs with conventional snubber circuits. The experimental results show the voltage balancing by an active control under wide variation in loads and imbalance conditions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.185-187
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• 1995

A boost converter proposed in this paper operates with high power factor due to input current of sinusoidal waveform. If there were no input LPF, the current is got to be discontinuos form in proportion to AC input voltage magnitude under the constant duty factor switching. Thereupon, the harmonics of input current waveform is reduced and the LPF is made with few elaboration and the control circuit is simple. The switching devices in proposed circuit are operated with soft switching by the partial resonant method. The patial resonant circuit makes use of a reactor using step-up and a capacitor of loss-less snubber. The result is that switching loss is very low and efficiency of system is high.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.222-230
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• 1998

This paper proposes a new gate drive circuit for high power IGBTs which can reduce the harmful effect of reverse recovery current at turn-on and actively suppress the overvoltage across the driven IGBT at turn-off without a snubber circuit. The turn-on scheme decreases the rising rate of the collector current by inereasing the input capacitance at turn-on transient when the gate-emitter voltage goes above threshold voltage. It results in soft transient of the reverse recovery current with no variation in turn-on delay time. The turn-off driving scheme has adaptive feature to the amplitude of collector current, so that the overvoltage can be limited much effectively at the fault collector current. Experimental results under various normal and fault conditions prove the effectiveness of the proposed circuit.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 전력전자학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.75-76
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• 2014

This study deals with a isolation type MIC(Module Integrated Converter) for AC module with advantages such as DC Wireless, freely selectable installation capacity, minimized shadow effect etc. In this paper, MIC circuit with the function which can remove the ripple voltage of PV module and give the discharging path for charged energy in leakage inductance of isolation transformer. The validity of proposed circuir is verified by the simulation with PSIM.