• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.85-89
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• 1998

A switching power stage is a very nonlinear system because it has two or more operation modes in one switching cycle. To model a switching power stage, the state space averaging method has been developed. Though it allows a unified treatment of a large variety of switching power stages, the model it yields is always very nonlinear. So, it is required to linearize the averaged model. But it is well known that a controller for a nonlinear plant designed by the linearization frequently fails in showing satisfactory control performance. Hence it is very natural to try to design a nonlinear controller for a switching power stage. In design of a switching power system, nonlinear control approaches such as adaptive control and fuzzy control have been widely studied so far. In this research, a recently developed control method, time delay control is briefly studied and a design example for a ZVS PWM half bridge converter is given. The performance of the time delay controller is compared to its conventional counterpart, PI controller by computer simulations.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.25-27
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• 2006

This paper proposes a new full ZVS-range asymmetrical half bridge converter. It uses the variable transient current build-up technique with the load variations. The current build-up is accomplished by using the secondary synchronous switch control. Due to the blocking capacitor in secondary side, the voltage applied to leakage inductor varies with the load variations during current build-up period. Therefore, the unnecessary current build-up of leakage inductor current in heavy load condition is prevented and more current build-up in medium and light load condition is achieved for ZVS operation. That is, the variant current build-up with the load variation is accomplished for the ZVS operation. Furthermore, the DC offset of the transformer magnetizing current is also eliminated and the utilization of magnetic core is maximized.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.395-398
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• 2002

This paper presents generalized small-signal models for complementary driven double-ended isolated converters. The proposed small-signal models include the effect of the parasitic resistances, which have dominant influence on the damping of the secondary Power stage double-pole. To confirm the validity of the new models, an asymmetrical half-bridge converter with confer-taped rectifier and a forward-flyback converter with current doubler rectifier were built, and their performance were compared with the theoretical prediction.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.360-363
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• 2002

In the resonant converters which can provide high efficiency and high power density, the resonant voltage stress is about $4\~5$ times the input voltage. It needs the power switch with high ratings. This is a reason why the conduction loss is increased. In this paper, it proposes the alternately zero voltage switched forward, flyback multi resonant converter topology for reducing the voltage stress using alternately zero voltage switching technique. And the proposed AT forward MRC Is experimentally considered about the loop gain with HP4194A network analyzer

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.369-371
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• 2006

Conventional active-clamp forward converter has narrow ZVS range of main switch. Although utilizing high magnetizing current can realize wide ZVS range, it increases the conduction loss. To solve this problem, a new asymmetric two-transformer active clamp forward converter is proposed. Proposed converter achieves wide ZVS range without severe conduction loss penalty, which results in high efficiency and high power density.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11b
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• pp.358-360
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• 1999

This paper presents a new soft-switching partial series resonant DC/DC converter (PSRC) with zero-voltage on/off simultaneously, suitable for application in the high power and high frequency switching. The proposed converter has not only advantages of the conventional PSRC but also zero-voltage turn-on and turn-off of the main switches for the entire load ranges by adding the auxiliary circuit, and zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) turn-on of the auxiliary switches. The operation principles of the new converter are explained in detail and the several interesting simulation and experimental results verify the validity of the proposed circuit.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11b
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• pp.364-368
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• 1999

This paper suggests switching regulator technique to overcome the drawback of conventional variable linear power supply. Switching regulator technique can eliminate the extremely lossy operation and reduce the size and weight of variable linear power supply and provide nearly constant output power over the majority of output voltage range. The topology of variable switched mode power supply is employed active clamp forward converter with a current doubler rectifier and by using control of variable-frequency together with control of fixed-frequency, output voltage can be controled. Equivalent circuits pertinent to each operational mode of converter are derived, and an experimental 20V, 50A converter was designed and built. The converter operates from an output voltage of zero to 25 V, under 100 kHz switching frequency.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.1065-1066
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• 2006

The multi-resonant converter minimizes the parasitic oscillations using the resonant tank circuit absorbed parasitic reactances in a converter. So the converter can be operated at a high frequency and it provides a high efficiency because the switching power losses are reduced effectively. However, the high resonant voltage stress of semiconductors leads to the conduction loss. In this paper, it is proposed the novel flyback multi-resonant converter. The converter input is divided by two series input capacitors. And also the resonant stress is reduced to 2-3 times input voltage without any complexity and it provides the various circuit schemes in lots of applications. The proposed converters are verified through simulation and experiment.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.59-63
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• 2004

In this paper, active forward converter with snubber circuit - composed of a tapped inductor, a snubber capacitor, two diodes - is proposed. By adding the snubber circuit, ZVS operation became possible even in a smaller magnetizing current conditions than the conventional converter. The operational principles and the equivalent mode analysis of the proposed converter is described and compared to conventional converter. We constructed the prototype active clamped forward converter with 300W output capacity and verified that efficiency of the proposed converter is higher than the conventional converter.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.203-205
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• 2008

기존의 부스트 컨버터에서는 출력 전압이 커질수록 스위치의 전압 및 전류스트레스가 커지고 다이오드 역방향회복에 의한 서지로 인해 실제 사용 가능한 승압비가 제한된다. 본 논문에서는 높은 승압을 요구하는 대전력 응용에도 적합한 새로운 비절연 DC-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안한 컨버터는 듀티비 0.5로 약 6배의 승압비를 가지며 CCM에서도 영전압 스위칭이 가능하다. 또한 스위치 및 다이오드 전압정격이 출력전압의 1/3로 되고 인터리빙이 가능하여 입출력 수동소자의 정격도 작다. 다이오드도 ZCS 턴오프 동작으로 역방향 회복에 의한 서지가 없다. 제안하는 컨버터의 동작원리를 설명하였고 이론적 해석과 시뮬레이션 및 실험파형을 통해 타당성을 검증하였다.