• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1429-1437
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• 2015

A new parallel hybrid soft switching converter with low circulating current losses during the freewheeling state and a low output current ripple is presented in this paper. Two circuit modules are connected in parallel using the interleaved pulse-width modulation scheme to provide more power to the output load and to reduce the output current ripple. Each circuit module includes a three-level converter and a half-bridge converter sharing the same lagging-leg switches. A resonant capacitor is adopted on the primary side of the three-level converter to reduce the circulating current to zero in the freewheeling state. Thus, the high circulating current loss in conventional three-level converters is alleviated. A half-bridge converter is adopted to extend the ZVS range. Therefore, the lagging-leg switches can be turned on under zero voltage switching from light load to full load conditions. The secondary windings of the two converters are connected in series so that the rectified voltage is positive instead of zero during the freewheeling interval. Hence, the output inductance of the three-level converter can be reduced. The circuit configuration, operation principles and circuit characteristics are presented in detail. Experiments based on a 1920W prototype are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed converter.

• 한국조명전기설비학회지:조명전기설비
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.62-70
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• 1995

Brushless DC Motor (BDCM) is widely used in the industry such as a variable speed motor in a compressor for room air conditioners, because the motor can be easily controlled and operated over a wide speed range. The system to drive BDCM needs encoder that senses rotor position. Gut in a certain application, the position sensor has to be avoided. In the paper, various position sensorless drive systems for BDCM are investigated and critically evaluated, so that the effective method of sensorless control can be selected. Out of these methods, the freewheeling diode current sensing has many advantages. For example, the simple starting procedure makes it possible to perform sensorless control even in low speed. So the hardware design for this method has been carried out and the system has been implemented using DSP. The experimental results verified that the freewheeling diode current sensing approach has advantages in starting procedure and low speed sensing.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.153-156
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• 2004

This paper presents a new circuit topology of the half-bridge resonant inverter. As the proposed half-bridge inverter can be operated in the load freewheeling modes, pulse width modulation (PWM) control method can be used for the output power control. The proposed half-bridge inverter should keep unity output displacement factor under the load-impedance varying conditions, if a new PWM control scheme based on the resonant frequency tracking algorithm is adopted. In this paper, electrical characteristics, and losses analysis of the proposed half-bridge resonant inverter are described. Simulation and experimental results of the prototype experimental setup to verify the validity of the proposed half-bridge resonant inverter are presented and discussed.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2011년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.362-363
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• 2011

본 논문은 높은 시스템 안정성과 고 효율이 요구되는 배터리 충전용 DC/DC 컨버터에 적용할 수 있는 새로운 토폴로지를 제안한다. 기존의 대용량 배터리 충전용 DC/DC 컨버터로 널리 사용되는 위상천이 풀 브리지 컨버터 (Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge Converter)의 경우 1차 측스위치의 영전압 스위칭을 가능케 하여 높을 효율을 얻을 수 있다. 하지만 배터리 충전과 같이 출력 전압의 변동이 있는 경우 듀티 변화에 따른 freewheeling 구간이 존재하게 되고 이는 시스템의 효율을 감소시키는 원인으로 작용한다. 제안하는 컨버터의 경우 기존의 위상천이 풀브리지 회로를 기반으로 하되 1차 측에 하프 브리지 형태의 인버터를 추가하여 freewheeling 구간에서의 도통 손실을 제거할 뿐만 아니라 영전압-영전류 스위칭으로 시스템의 안정성을 높였다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 회로의 구조 및 동작원리를 설명하고 1.6kW 급 (Vo=140V~200V) 전기자동차용 배터리 충전기 스펙에 맞춰 프로토 타입을 제작하고 실험 결과를 통해 제안된 회로의 동작 특성 및 타당성을 검증한다.

• 한국조명전기설비학회지:조명전기설비
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.54-61
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 기존에 제시된 영전압 준공진 buck dc-dc 컨버터를 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 분석하고, 이에서 발생하는 문제점을 분석하였다. 그리고 부하저항을 낮게 가변함에 따라 소자의 스트레스가 증가함을 확인하였다. 그 원인이 freewheeling다이오드의 기생 커채시턴스에 의한 전압상승에 의하여 발생함을 확인하고, 이를 개선할수 있는 영전압 스위칭 컨버터를 제시한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.1940-1943
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• 1998

A new PWM rectifier which offers a unity power factor is proposed. The circuit has same inductance as the conventional boosting type PWM rectifier in powering mode, but the inductance is splitted to 2 part in freewheeling mode. So the period of freewheeling mode is shorter than that of conventional boosting type PWM rectifier, and discontinuous input current is obtained in wide duty range. Therefore the proposed PWM rectifier accomplishs a unity power factor in wide range of duty ratio and boosting factor. And the conventional boosting type PWM rectifier has poor power factor near the unity boosting ratio, the proposed PWM rectifier improves this problem. The mathmatical analysis are presented and experimental results are given.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.183-187
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• 2005

A Zero-Voltage-Switching(ZVS) Three-Level Converter realizes ZVS for the switches with the use of the leakage inductance(or external resonant inductance) and the output capacitors of the switches, however; the rectifier diodes suffer from recovery which results in oscillation and voltage spike. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel ZVS Three-Level converter, which introduces two clamping diodes to the basic Three-Level converter to eliminate the oscillation and clamp the rectified voltage to the reflected input voltage, the proposed ZVS Three-Level converter can be simplified by removing the two freewheeling diodes.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 1차측 환류 다이오드를 제거한 ZVZCS(영전압 영전류 스위칭) Three Level DC/DC 컨버터에 관하여 논하였다. 제안된 컨버터는 1차측 회로를 Three Level 결선하고, 여기에 위상이동 스위칭 방법을 이용하여, 스위치 전압 스트레스를 저감시킬 수 있으므로, 기존의 Full-Bridge 컨버터에 비하여 스위칭 손실이 적고, 고전압 응용 분야에 적합하다. 기존의 경우 2차측에 한 개의 커패시터와 두 개의 다이오드를 이용한 보조회로를 부가하여, 누설 인덕터와 2차측 보조 커패시터를 이용하여 공진을 일으킴으로써 주 스위치의 영전압 영전류 스위칭(ZVZCS)이 가능하였다. 그러나 새로운 컨버터는 기존의 보조 회로에 결합 인덕터를 추가함으로써, 누설 인덕터, 2차측 보조 커패시터, 2차측 결합 인덕터가 공진을 일으키므로 기존의 경우보다 도전 손실이 저감된 고효율 컨버터를 구현할 수 있다. 또한 1차측 순환 전류의 현저한 감소로 환류 손실이 작아지며, 1차측에 환류 다이오드를 제거한 경제적인 Three Level 컨버터를 구현하였다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 컨버터의 동작원리, 해석 및 특성에 대해서 논하였으며, IGBT를 사용하여 1[㎾］급 시작품을 제작, 50［KHz］에서 실험하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2278-2288
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• 2017

Multilevel converter topologies are widely used in many applications. The cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (CHBMI), which is one of many multilevel converter topologies, has been introduced as a useful topology in high and medium power. However, it has a drawback to require a lot of switches. Therefore, the reliability of CHBMI is important factor for analyzing the performance. This paper presents a simple switch fault diagnosis method for single-phase CHBMI. There are two types of switch faults: open-fault and short-fault. In the open-fault, the body diode of faulty switch provides a freewheeling current path. However, when the short-fault occurs, the distortion of output current is different from that of the open-fault because it has an unavailable freewheeling current flow path due to a disconnection of fuse. The fault diagnosis method is based on the zero current time analysis according to zero-voltage switching states. Using the proposed method, it is possible to detect the location of faulty switch accurately. The PSIM simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of proposed switch fault diagnosis method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1480-1488
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• 2015

In this paper, a revolutionary buck converter is proposed with soft-switching technology, which is realized by a coupled inductor. Both zero-voltage switching (ZVS) of main switch and zero-current switching (ZCS) of freewheeling diode are achieved at turn on and turn off without using any auxiliary circuits by the resonance between the parasitic capacitor and the coupled inductor. Furthermore, the peak voltages of the main switch and the peak current of the freewheeling diode are significantly reduced by the coupled inductor. As a result, the proposed converter has the advantages of simple circuit, convenient control, low consumption and so on. The detailed operation principles and steady-state analysis of the proposed ZVS-ZCS buck converter are presented, and detailed power loss analysis and some simulation results are also included. Finally, experimental results based on a 200-W prototype are provided to verify the theory and design of the proposed converter.