• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.345-350
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• 2019

This study deals with the design of a modular converter that can convert the output voltage according to the size of the load. The efficiency of the converter depends on the size of the load and is generally less efficient for lower loads. Therefore, it is more efficient to construct a small capacity modular converter than to manufacture a large capacity converter and it determines the capacity of the system through the parallel connection of the converter module according to the load size. In this paper, we will introduce a modular DC / DC converter designed to control the number of modules according to the load. A programmable resistor is placed at the output of the module for parallel connection of the module, and the voltage is regulated by adjusting the variable resistor. A system controlled in this way was found to exhibit an efficiency improvement of about 32%.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.400-408
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• 2007

In this paper, development of the 8kW parallel module converter is presented. For a effective configuration of FB-PWM converter, this paper proposes 4-parallel operation of 2 kw-module. FB converter of 2-kW module is controlled by phase shut PWM and in order to achieve ZVZCS, the simple auxiliary circuit is applied in secondary side. In order to achieve ZCS, control logic for auxiliary circuit operation is designed to reset the primary current during free-wheeling period. For output current sharing of 4-modules, the charge control is employed. The charge control logic is designed with phase shift PWM logic. Voltage controller is implemented by using DSP(TMS320LF2406) with A/D conversion data of the output current and voltage of each module. The developed converter is installed in PCU(Power Conditioning Unit) for HSG(High Speed Generator) in a vehicle and health monitoring system is implemented for vehicle operation test. Finally, performance of the developed converter is proved under practical operation of HSG.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.165-173
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• 2007

This paper introduces a new current sharing technique to Interleaved Boost Converter (IBC) using carrier slope control. The IBC is able to boost the input voltage and operates at higher current levels and has various advantages over a single power module. However, how to balance the current each module is still important problem. To solve this problem, the proposed technique can distribute the power and load current equally based on master-slave current sharing method. Unlike a conventional approach, this technique can be extended even though the current stress of switching components at slave modules is significantly smaller than that of the master module. The simulation and the experimental results are presented to show the validity.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.89-95
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• 2003

In this study, we examine a large number of methods for paralleling power converter, many current control techniques and the cause and solutions of the current unbalance that occurs at the application of a paralleling scheme. For each paralleling schemes, we inspect the merits and drawbacks and analyze the characteristics of each current control methods. With previously examined and analyzed results, we develop a modularizing method that can be available for unregulated bus system. And finally, we verify the possibility of the chosen modularizing method by executing simulation and performing prototype experiment.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.270-273
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• 2000

A new phase shift PWM parallel-input/series-output modularized dual converter is proposed in this paper. This converter is operated with a fixed duty ratio and its output voltage is regulated by phase shift between each module. Since the operating duty ratio of each module is fixed it is sufficient to implement a simple open loop drive circuitry for each module and the cost of total system can be much reduced. The operation of the converter is analyzed in this paper and verified by computer simulation.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.695-703
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a method to remove the circulating current which can occur in the parallel connection of the high voltage series connected battery module in the battery pack. The removal way is a method of inserting a module named VVSM (Variable Voltage Variable Module) using bidirectional DCDC converter and supercapacitor in place of one or some of the cascaded battery cells in the battery pack configuration. In this module, it operates like a battery cell that can be controlled at a desired voltage. VVSM is used to match the voltages of the cascaded battery modules very easily. To demonstrate the proposed method, a PSIM simulation for battery model is used. In addition, the module with only the battery cell connected in series and the module with the proposed VVSM are made, and the two modules were connected in parallel to measure the circulating current between the two modules. As a result, it was verified that the proposed method effectively suppressed the circulating current.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.537-543
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• 2000

A novel integrated battery charger/discharger converter for a standardized battery module is proposed. Instead of using separate charger and discharger converters, it integrates these two converters into a single converter in order to minimize the size. The integrated charger/discharger converter not only regulates the solar array output power including the peak power tracking capability but also controls the battery charging/discharging current depending on the solar array output power and the load power. In addition, it offers a regulated bus voltage which simplifies the power distribution/conversion for the pay load.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.84-91
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• 2003

KOMPSAT series use software-controlled unregulated bus system in which the main bus is directly connected to a battery and the duty-ratio for PWM switch is controlled by the on-board satellite software. This paper proposes a new power-stage circuit that can be available for modularization of the power regulator which is used at the software-controlled unregulated bus system satellite. And we analyze the proposed power-stage operation according to its operating modes and verify it by performing software simulation and hardware experiment using prototype. We construct a parallel-module converter which is composed of proposed power-stages and perform experiment to verify modular characteristics of the proposed power-stage. Finally, we verify the usefulness of the proposed power-stage by comparing above results with those of a parallel-module converter made of conventional power-stages.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.81-86
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• 2019

This paper is concerned with a system design that enables a the plurality of switching mode power supplies to be supplied with larger power through a parallel connection. For this purpose, a shunt resistor is placed in series at the output of the constant voltage regulator and the output voltage is sensed and controlled using an arduino. In this paper, two constant-voltage regulators were used for the experiment, but it is possible to generalize for more boards. By using the method that controls the system, the sum of the currents delivered by the two systems to the load was found to be 96% of the current drawn from each board. In case of efficiency, 92.4% efficiency is achieved in the unit board and the efficiency in parallel connection is about 90%.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.504-513
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• 2009

This paper proposes the new type LED driver modularization for illumination LED driver. The proposed LED driver circuit insulates a hot GND of AC input power and a cold GND of LED driver part by using a fly-back converter. In order to control easily the current of the LED, the fly-back converter is operated in the discontinuous mode with excellent dynamic characteristics, and the characteristics of the LED are verified after the closed loop control is performed using a KIA2431. The LED driver module allows the wide AC power input ranges and realizes the burst dimming function which directly regulates a PWM control IC. This paper describes the operation principle of the LED driver module and it is proved the usefulness through the real model with experimentation. Besides, this paper proposes the multi-channel LED driver which the miniaturized and modularized LED driver module are connected by parallel, and verified its propriety by experiments.