• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.51-65
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• 2012

Battery switching EVs are considered to be a promising alternative to overcome long charging time problems in the EV adoption. The purpose of this research is to develop integrated model for battery inventory and battery switching waiting times. Due to complexity of exact analysis, a practical approximation method is developed, which provides close results to exact values. Numerical experiments show that there exist trade-offs between the battery inventory level and the number of switching stations. The proposed model can be applied to evaluate and select the minimum cost alternative in implementing the battery switching stations.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.244-251
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• 2013

This paper presents a study the change of the load profile on the power system by the charging impact of electric vehicles (EVs) in 2020. The impact of charging EVs on the load demand is determined not only by the number of EVs in usage pattern, but also by the number of EVs being charged at once. The charging load is determined on an hourly basis using the number of the EVs based on different scenarios considering battery size, model, the use of vehicles, charging at home or work, and the method of charging, which is either fast or slow. Focusing on the impact of future load profile in Korea with EVs reaching up 10 and 20 percentage, increased power demand by EVs charging is analyzed. Also, this paper analyzes the impact of a time-of-use (TOU) tariff system on the charging of EVs in Korea. The results demonstrate how the penetration of EVs increases the load profile and decreases charging demand by TOU tariff system on the future power system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.491-498
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• 2020

Recently, In the production line of batteries, charge and discharge tests are essential to verify battery characteristics. In this case, the battery charging uses a unidirectional AC/DC converter capable of output voltage and current control, and the discharge uses a resistive load. Since this method consumes energy during discharge, it must be replaced with a bi-directional AC/DC converter system capable of charging and discharging. Although it is difficult to replace the connected inverter part of the bi-directional AC/DC converter system due to the high cost, the spread of the solar-connected inverter rapidly increases as the current solar supply business is activated, and thereby the solar-connected type Inverter prices are plunging. If it can be used as a power converter for battery discharge without program modification of the solar-powered inverter, it will have competition. In this paper, propose a new battery discharge system using a combination of a photovoltaic DC/DC simulator and photovoltaic PCS using a battery to be used as a power converter for battery discharge without program modification of a low-cost photovoltaic inverter. In addition, propose an optimal solar characteristic curve for the stable operation of PCS. The validity of the proposed system was verified using a 500[W] class solar DC/DC simulator and a solar PCS prototype.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.15-20
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• 2015

Recently, as smart phone technology is developing, wearable devices is also accelerating. But, the wearable device is necessary to operated for a long time with a small electric power because werable device is made compact. In this paper, we design and implement efficient lithium polymer battery model suitable to miniaturized wearable device in oder to maximize ease of use. The proposed model is characterized by a compact size of the battery by applying a thermal element and a light-weight battery. Also, proposed model gives greatly improve the life of wearable devices because it uses a method using the characteristics of the Peltier device using the temperature difference between the room temperature and body temperature of a person to generate power for charging. In particular, the proposed model can be used for the wearable device, as well as auxiliary charging of the smart phone.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.181-186
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• 2010

This paper presents a new method for the estimation of State of Charge (SOC) for NiMH batteries. Among the conventional methods to estimate SOC, Coulomb Counting is widely used, but this method is not precise due to error integration. Another method that has been proposed to estimate SOC is by using a measurement of the Open Circuit Voltage (OCV). This method is found to be a precise one for SOC estimation. In NiMH batteries, the hysteresis characteristic of OCV is very strong compared to other type of batteries. Another characteristic of NiMH battery to be considered is that the OCV of a NiMH battery under discharging mode is lower than it is under charging mode. In this paper, the OCV is modeled by a simple method based on a hyperbolic function which well known as Takacs’s model. The OCV model is then used for SOC estimation. Although the model is simple, the error is within 10%.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.171-178
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• 2013

This paper discusses to conduct experimental verification of two types of micro electric vehicles (EV) in order to realize improvement in electric mileage and shorten a charging time of the battery. First, electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) systems to use as a secondary battery are proposed. The internal resistance of EDLC is small compared with a rechargeable battery, and it is suitable for momentary charge-discharge of EV. Next, control circuits of the capacitors to increase the regenerative electric power are utilized. Then, a novel method to charge a main battery of the EV is introduced. Finally, experimental results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.85-88
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• 2001

This paper suggests an improved switch architecture for the rechargeable battery protection IC. In the existing protection IC, charging and discharging switches composed of the CMOS transistor and the diode are external components. It is difficult to integrate the switches in a CMOS process due to the large chip-size overhead and inevitable parasitic effects. In this paper, we propose a new switch architecture of the MOSFET's 'diode connection' method. The performance and chip-size overhead are proved to be adequate for the fully integrated protection IC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.519-520
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 배터리의 온도를 고려하여 효율적으로 고속 충전할 수 있는 방법에 대해 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 충전하고자 하는 배터리의 온도에 따라 충전에 필요한 전압과 전류의 양을 조절하여 최적의 충전 환경을 만들어 배터리의 수명을 감소시키지 않는 최적의 충전 환경을 제공하는 것이다. 충전으로 인하여 배터리 내부에 있는 전해액, 활물질, 분리막 등의 반응성이 증가되어 배터리의 온도 상승과 수명 단축이 발생되는 현상을 고려하여 배터리의 열 발생으로 저하되는 충전량을 보상할 수 있도록 전압 또는 전류의 량을 조절하여 초기의 충전량을 유지할 수 있도록 하는 고속 충전 방법이다. 제안한 방법의 효율성을 검증하기 위해 리튬이온 배터리를 이용하여 일반적인 충전과 비교하여 실험하였다. 실험 결과 존 논문에서 제안한 방법이 기존의 충전방법보다 고속으로 충전되어 효율성이 입증되었다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.142-144
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• 2019

Nowadays, multi-MHz wireless power transfer (WPT) system has received a great concern of study due to its desirable characteristics such as user convenience, system compact and better safety as compared to the conventional DC-DC with cord. This paper presents a solution for WPT Lithium Batteries charger with Constant Current (CC) and Constant Voltage (CV) charging process. The proposed system consists of a high frequency class D power amplifier, a pair of PCB coil, transformable high-order resonant network and a full-bridge rectifier. The charger can be implemented CC /CV charging profile thanks to automatic reconfigurable resonant compensator. Therefore, the battery can be fully charged without the help of an additional DC/DC converter. The simulation and 50W-6.78-MHz hardware experimental results are presented to verify the feasibility of the proposed method and to evaluate the performance of the proposed wireless battery charger.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1927-1934
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• 2018

In this paper, we studied the state of charge (SOC) estimation algorithm of a high-capacity lithium secondary battery for electric vehicles (EVs) considering temperature characteristics. Nonlinear characteristics of high-capacity lithium secondary batteries are represented by differential equations in the mathematical form and expressed by the state space equation through battery modeling to extract the characteristic parameters of the lithium secondary battery. Charging and discharging equipment were used to perform characteristic tests for the extraction of parameters of lithium secondary batteries at various temperatures. An extended Kalman filter (EKF) algorithm, a state observer, was used to estimate the state of the battery. The battery capacity and internal resistance of the high-capacity lithium secondary battery were investigated through battery modeling. The proposed modeling was applied to the battery pack for EVs to estimate the state of the battery. We confirmed the feasibility of the proposed study by comparing the estimated SOC values and the SOC values from the experiment. The proposed method using the EKF is expected to be highly applicable in estimating the state of the high-capacity rechargeable lithium battery pack for electric vehicles.