• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.303-309
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• 2009

Switched Reluctance Motor(SRM) has become popular for industrial application, particularly for low medium drives due to the advantages of SRM over the other ac motors: SRM can be manufactured with low cost because it has a simple structure. But, asymmetric bridge converter that generally is used for driving requires two discrete switching devices and freewheeling diodes per phase, and cause the SRM drives to be complicated and to increase the cost of overall system. Therefore, this paper suggests a new type of 4-switch converter for SRM. 4-switch converter topology is studied to provide a possibility for the realization of low cost 3-phase SRM drive system. For effective utilization of the developed system, a new current control algorithm is designed and implemented to produce the desired dynamic performance. With the developed power conversion circuit and control scheme, it is expected that the proposed system can be widely used in commercial applications with reduced system cost.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1566-1577
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• 2015

A novel high step-up converter is presented herein, which combines the conventional buck-boost converter, the charge pump capacitor and the coupling inductor. By doing so, a quite high voltage conversion ratio due to not only the turns ratio but also the duty cycle, so as to increase design feasibility. It is noted that the denominator of the voltage conversion ratio is the square of one minus duty cycle. Above all, there is no voltage spike across the switch due to the leakage inductance and hence no passive or active snubber is needed, and furthermore, the used switch is driven without isolation and hence the gate driving circuit is relatively simple, thereby upgrading the industrial application capability of this converter. In this paper, the basic operating principles and the associated mathematical deductions are firstly described in detail, and finally some experimental results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed high step-up converter.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.10
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• pp.1829-1834
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• 2008

An optical switch/modulator is designed and the light propagating characteristics is analyzed by the simplified BPM. The distinctive feature of the switch/modulator is that all the waveguide branches are designed to be single-mode. Principle of the device is based on the coupled mode theory in the Y-junction interconnecting waveguide. In spite of all the waveguides are designed to be single-mode, adjusting the interconnecting waveguide length of the device, the same characteristics as existing device up to date is obtainable. Numerical results show that the switching characteristics periodically depends on the interconnecting waveguide length with a spatial of about 150${\mu}m$ in the Ti:LiNbO3 step index waveguide. The concept of design would be utilized effectively in fabricating the monolithic high density of optical integrated circuit.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.11
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• pp.24-33
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• 2009

The transition of auxiliary lines for transmitting coding information has been one of the major obstacles to restricting the scalability of Sequence Switch Coding (SSC) algorithms. A new design of SSC which does not use auxiliary lines is presented in this paper. The new design makes overhead transitions far less than the previous designs that use auxiliary lines. By applying the new technique, more than 50% of overhead transitions have been reduced, leading to the increase of 30% of the overall efficiency of SSC algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.822-823
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• 2008

Making-Switch는 대전력 시험에 있어 가장 중요한 시험 설비중의 하나로 시험 회로를 최후에 폐로하여 전류를 피시품에 인가하는 역할을 한다. 정확한 시험을 위해 투입 위상각을 정밀 제어할 수 있어야 하며 이는 Closing time error에 따라 결정된다. 또한 빈번한 투입과 대전류 투입등의 가혹한 사용 조건하에서도 문제없이 동작하기 위해 각 부품에 따라 특수한 특성이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 Making-Switch의 일반 사항 및 그 특성에 관하여 고찰하여 보았다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.792-794
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• 2000

This paper describes the design and the analysis of electromagnetic system of Magnetic Switch using 2D parametric finite element method(EM-Pulse). Magnetic Switch is electrical equipment, which is widely used for switching on/off motors in industrial field. The transient state is simulated in order to calculate the response time of Magnetic Switch. The simulation is based upon a step-by-step integration of the electric circuit equations and the core movement. The contactor uses a permanent magnet for maintaining the closed state. The presented solution takes account of non-linear magnetic material property and spring force controlled by core position. The dynamic response of Magnetic Switch predicted by the simulation agrees closely with the required condition.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.49 no.7
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• pp.359-364
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• 2000

This paper is introducing a newly developed spark-gap switch with dual trigger system, into which the current from the voltage source is injected along with the test sequence during the synthetic testing of high voltage circuit-breaker. The currently-used spark gap switch is narrow in operating range due to the use of the method of triggering energy being injected by single way. As a result, the frequent happening of misoperation has greatly reduced the test quality and test efficiency and has required the cost of maintenance excessively. In this study, accordingly, in order to basically remove these problems, another triggering system is installed to the opposite direction on the existing triggering system; attaching the same time and the same rising time of pulse wave as on the existing system, so that at a comparatively trigger gap distance from the main electrode(the gap can be operated at 60% of self-break voltage, while at 80% in the current system), the main electrode has been enabled to be closed by the development of spark gap switch with dual trigger system.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.157-161
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• 2008

Due to high speed operations and ultra low power consumptions RSFQ logic circuit is a very good candidate for future electronic device. The focus of the RSFQ circuit development has been on the advancement of analog-to-digital converters and microprocessors. Recent works on RSFQ ALU development showed the successful operation of an 1-bit block of ALU at 40 GHz. Recently, the study of an RSFQ analog-to-digital converter has been extended to the development of a single chip RF digital receiver. Compared to the voltage logic circuits, RSFQ circuits operate based on the pulse logic. This naturally leads the circuit structure of RSFQ circuit to be pipelined. Delay time on each pipelined stage determines the ultimate operating speed of the circuit. In simulations, a two junction Josephson transmission line's delay time was about 10 ps, a splitter's 14.5 ps, a switch's 13 ps, a half adder's 67 ps. Optimization of the 4-bit ALU circuit has been made with delay time consideration to operate comfortably at 10 GHz or above.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1187-1189
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• 2002

In the case of an existing high frequency inverter is became forced extinction by quick load change, due to be connected with series inductor on switch, it is destroyed or is generated conduction loss by resistance component in reactor. And, In the operation of high current with a soft switching, conduction loss can not neglect. In this paper, for the high current power source, we make sure of soft swtching operation and reducing surge when the forced extinction by using a connected switch with series inductor. Also, we poropos a topology of the half bridge type high frequency inverter that can be realized high amplitude operation of the load current. And, analyze the circuit to decide an opmtial circuit parameter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.35-50
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• 2008

A zero-voltage-transition (ZVT) pulse width modulated (PWM) converter is a PWM converter with a single main power switch that has an auxiliary circuit to help it turn on with zero-voltage switching (ZVS). There have been many ZVT-PWM converters proposed in the literature as they are the most popular type of ZVS-PWM converters. In this paper, the properties and characteristics of several types of ZVT-PWM converters are reviewed. A new type of ZVT-PWM converter is then introduced, and the operation of a sample converter of this type is explained and analyzed in detail. A procedure for the design of the converter is presented and demonstrated experimentally. The feasibility of the new converter is confirmed with results obtained from an experimental prototype. Conclusions on the performance of ZVT-PWM converters in general are made based on the efficiency results obtained from the experimental prototypes of various ZVT-PWM converters of different types.