• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.46-55
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• 2006

This paper presents the control method for the hybrid actuator comprising a DC motor and an MR brake. Generally, a DC motor as an active actuator has a small power to weight ratio and goes unstable with higher force control gain due to its saturation limit. In order to cope with this instability and make the transparency higher, this paper proposes a hybrid actuator which consists of a DC motor and an MR brake as a passive actuator and its force control method based on network theory. A DC motor actively produces the output corresponding to the signs of the input currents. On the other hand, an MR brake passively resists against the external load independent of the sign changes of the input currents. This characteristics is widely known as 'passive' This paper suggests a force control method based on passivity concept in network theory for the hybrid actuator and verified its performance and stability through the experiments.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.359-364
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• 2013

In order to use a linear vibration motor for the actuator of a haptic interface, the motor must provide a higher reaction rate and longer service life than typical rotational motors with an eccentric mass. In this paper, we propose a linear vibration motor that is equipped with a voice-coil actuator and permanent-magnet springs. To concentrate the magnetic flux in the actuator, a Halbach-style magnetization pattern is used. Permanent-magnet springs replace mechanical springs to help increase the service life. We use the method of equivalent current sheets and the method of images to analyze and model the proposed vibration motor. These methods are validated using finite element analyses and experiments. A prototype motor is designed and fabricated. Tests with the prototype show the feasibility of the proposed linear vibration motor.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.165-172
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• 2003

In this paper, the new robust current control scheme is proposed for an Induction motor. The proposed design scheme of current controller tan obtain a specified stability margin through electrical parameter variation by using Kharitonov robust stability theory. The characteristics of the proposed design scheme are compared with those of a conventional scheme by computer simulation and its effectiveness and usefulness is verified by experiments on the 0.75kW induction motor drive.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2001

In this appear, we proposed the new current mirror has large output resistance and excellent current matching characteristics. If supply voltage were lowered under the conventional CMOS operational amplifier, the wing of out put power could be restricted. So, the paper suggests a new way of differential operational amplifier circuit to solve the problem. The paper proposes that a new current mirror increases output swing and has a stable operation. We compare and verify characteristics of the proposed current mirror with the cascoded current mirror and the regulated current mirror through simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.4-6
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• 2019

본 논문은 Modular Scalable Inverter System에서 큰 부피를 차지하는 인덕터를 저감하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 최근 전력분야에서는 모듈형 전력변환 시스템을 사용함으로써 다양한 시스템에 필요한 전력을 공급하여 효율을 증가시키고 신뢰성을 높이는 방법들이 대두되고 있다. 하지만 모듈을 병렬로 사용하는 경우에는 모듈 간에 흐르는 순환 전류가 발생하게 된다. 이런 순환전류는 부하로 전력을 공급하지 않기 때문에 시스템 효율을 떨어트리고 전류제어 및 부하 분담을 방해한다. 따라서 병렬형 인버터에는 출력에 순환전류 저감을 위한 인덕터를 사용해야 한다는 단점이 있다. 모듈형 전력변환 장치에서 큰 크기의 출력 인덕터는 시스템 사이즈를 늘리고 비용을 증가시키고 전력밀도가 낮아지게 된다. 따라서 GaN HEMT (Gallium Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistor) 기반 인버터와 순환전류 저감 알고리즘을 사용하여 고속 스위칭을 함으로써 동일한 순환전류 저감 성능을 확보하지만 출력 인덕터의 크기를 줄이는 방안을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.1227-1234
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• 2008

In this paper is designed a 256-bit synchronous OTP(one-time programmable) memory required in application fields such as automobile appliance power ICs, display ICs, and CMOS image sensors. A 256-bit synchronous memory cell consists of NMOS capacitor as antifuse and access transistor without a high-voltage blocking transistor. A gate bias voltage circuit for the additional blocking transistor is removed since logic supply voltage VDD(=1.5V) and external program voltage VPPE(=5.5V) are used instead of conventional three supply voltages. And loading current of cell to be programmed increases according to RON(on resistance) of the antifuse and process variation in case of the voltage driving without current constraint in programming. Therefore, there is a problem that program voltage can be increased relatively due to resistive voltage drop on supply voltage VPP. And so loading current can be made to flow constantly by using the current driving method instead of the voltage driving counterpart in programming. Therefore, program voltage VPP can be lowered from 5.9V to 5.5V when measurement is done on the manufactured wafer. And the sens amplifier circuit is simplified by using the sens amplifier of clocked inverter type instead of the conventional current sent amplifier. The synchronous OTP of 256 bits is designed with Magnachip $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The layout area if $298.4{\times}314{\mu}m2$.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.899-903
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• 2013

A self-bearing is an electric machine that achieves both rotational actuation and magnetic levitation using a single magnetic structure. To be able to stably levitate the rotor in a self-bearing, one needs to have an inverse of the force-current model. However, the force-current model in a self-bearing motor is typically not square. Furthermore, the elements of the matrix vary with respect to the rotational angle, resulting in singularities of the pseudo-inverse at various angles. In this paper, we propose a new force-current model that eliminates the singularities by adding a constraint in coil currents. This constraint eliminates the flux density in the stator core so that the saturation problem in the previous study is avoided. By implementing this force-current model, we are able to implement a levitation controller for a toroidally-wound self-bearing BLDC motor. The model inversion and levitation are validated experimentally.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.135-144
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• 2003

This work proposes on-chip full CMOS current and voltage references for high-speed mixed-mode circuits. The proposed current reference circuit uses a digital-domain calibration method instead of a conventional analog calibration to obtain accurate current values. The proposed voltage reference employs internal reference voltage drivers to minimize the high-frequency noise from the output stages of high-speed mixed-mode circuits. The reference voltage drivers adopt low power op amps and small- sized on-chip capacitors for low power consumption and small chip area. The proposed references are designed, laid out, and fabricated in a 0.18 um n-well CMOS process and the active chip area is 250 um x 200 um. The measured results show the reference circuits have the power supply variation of 2.59 %/V and the temperature coefficient of 48 ppm/$^{\circ}C$ E.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.1693-1698
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• 2015

This paper proposed a PFM(pulse-frequency modulator) boost converter which has dual pulse-width. The PFM boost converter is composed of BGR(band gap voltage reference generating circuit), voltage reference generating circuit, soft-start circuit, error amplifier, high-speed comparator, inductor current sensing circuit and pulse-width generator. Converter has different inductor peak current so it has wider load current range and smaller output voltage ripple. Proposed PFM boost converter generates 18V output voltage with input voltage of 3.7V and it has load current range of 0.1~300mA. Simulation results show 0.43% output voltage ripple at ligh load mode and 0.79% output voltage ripple at heavy load mode. Converter has efficiency 85% at light lode mode and it has maximum 86.4% at 20mA load current.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.443-450
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• 2000

A PWM inverter for an induction motor often has a problem with a high frequency leakage current that flows through stray capacitors between stator windings and a motor frame to ground. This paper proposes a new type of Active Common Mode Voltage Canceler circuit for the reduction of common mode voltage and high frequency leakage current generated by the PWM VSI-fed induction motor drives. The compensating voltage applied by the common made voltage canceler has the same amplitude as, hut the opposite polarity to, the common mode voltage by PWM Inverter. Therefore, common mode voltage and high frequency leakage current can be canceled. The proposed circuit consists of four-level half-bridge inverter and common-mode transformer. Simulated and experimental results show that common mode voltage canceler makes significant contributions to reducing a high frequency leakage current.