Design of a Variable Inductor Using MR Fluid Gap for Wide Load Range Efficiency Improvement of a Soft-Switching High-Power Density Bidirectional Dc-Dc Converter

  • Published : 2013.07.02

Abstract

In this paper, design of a variable inductor using MR Fluid Gap is proposed for wide load range efficiency improvement of a bidirectional DC-DC converter. As compared to conventional constant value inductor designed to have negative current for ZVS at heavy load but suffers high losses at light load due to its small inductance, the proposed variable inductor not only have small inductance at high current for ZVS but also it has large inductance at low current to decrease light load losses.

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