• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.903-910
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• 2009

In this paper, a digital average current mode control using diode current sensing technique is proposed. Although the conventional inductor current sensing technique is widely used, the sensed signal of the current is negative. As a result, it requires an additional circuit to be applied to general digital controller ICs. The proposed diode current sensing method not only minimizes the peripheral circuit around the digital IC but also consumes less power to sense current information than the inductor current sensing method. The feasibility of the proposed technique is verified by experiments using a 500W power factor correction (PFC) boost rectifier.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.31-33
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• 2008

A novel lossless current sensing technique for a synchronous buck converter is presented. The inductor DCR method is generally used as a low cost and lossless current sensing technique of DC/DC converters. It is however difficult to obtain the accurate current value for the conventional DCR method because the inductor resistance varies depending on the operating frequency. In order to overcome this problem, an improved current sensing technique is proposed, which has the separated DC and AC sensing circuits. The concept and operation of the proposed method are explained and the experimental results are provided to show its effectiveness.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2016년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.99-100
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• 2016

In a AC motor used by three phase inverter, the phase current must be measured to control instantaneous torque. It is expensive to use current sensor for measuring current in low cost motor. So, shunt resistor is used to measure current. But, the method sensing the phase current using shunt resistor cannot perform the vector control in high speed because of the area that impossible to restore three phase current. In this paper, predictive current is proposed for reconstructing the current in the impossible current sensing area that reduce the current ripple in TSSI(Three shunt sensing inverter) for PMSM.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.232-242
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• 2013

To obtain phase currents information in AC drives, shunt sensing technology is known to show great performance in cost-effectiveness and therefore it is widely used in low cost applications. However, shunt sensing methods are unable to acquire phase currents in certain operation conditions. This paper deals with the derivation of the boundary conditions for phase current reconstruction in three-shunt sensing inverters and proposes a voltage injection method to expand the measurable areas. As the boundary conditions are deeply dependent on the switching patterns, they are typically analyzed on the voltage vector plane for space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) and discontinuous pulse width modulation (DPWM). In the proposed method, the voltage injection and its compensation are conducted within one sampling period. This guarantees fast current reconstruction and the injected voltage is decided so as to minimize the current ripple. In addition to the voltage injection method, a sampling point shifting method is also introduced to improve the boundary conditions. Simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the boundary condition derivation and the effectiveness of the proposed voltage injection method.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.416-422
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• 2012

This paper proposes a low power-loss current measurement using a resistor and bypass switch. Conventional current sensing method using a resistor has a disadvantage of power loss which degrades the efficiency of the entire systems. On the other hand, proposed measurement technique operating with bypass-switch connected in parallel with sensing resistor can reduce power loss significantly the current sensor. The propose measurement works for discrete-time sampling of current sensing. Even while the analog-digital conversion does not occur at the controller, the sensing voltage across the sensor still causes ohmic conduction loss without information delivery. Hence, the bypass switch bypasses the sensing current with a small amount of power loss. In this paper, a 90[W] prototype hardware has been implemented for photovoltaic MPPT experimental verification of the proposed low power-loss current measurement technique. From the results, it can be seen that PV power observation is successfully done with the proposed method.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.235-241
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• 2013

A low power CMOS control circuit is applied in an integrated DC-DC buck converter. The integrated converter is composed of a feedback control circuit and power block with 0.35 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process. A current-sensing circuit is integrated with the sense-FET method in the control circuit. In the current-sensing circuit, a current-mirror is used for a voltage follower in order to reduce power consumption with a smaller chip-size. The N-channel MOS acts as a switching device in the current-sensing circuit where the sensing FET is in parallel with the power MOSFET. The amplifier and comparator are designed to obtain a high gain and a fast transient time. The converter offers well-controlled output and accurately sensed inductor current. Simulation work shows that the current-sensing circuit is operated with an accuracy of higher than 90% and the transient time of the error amplifier is controlled within $75{\mu}sec$. The sensing current is in the range of a few hundred ${\mu}A$ at a frequency of 0.6~2 MHz and an input voltage of 3~5 V. The output voltage is obtained as expected with the ripple ratio within 1%.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2013년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.36-37
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• 2013

This paper presents high voltage operation sensing boost converter with high side current. Proposed topology has three functions which are high voltage driving, high side current sensing and low voltage boost controller. High voltage gate driving block provides LED dimming function and switch function such as a load switch of LED driver. To protect abnormal fault and burn out of LED bar, it is applied high side current sensing method with high voltage driver. This proposed configuration of boost converter shows the effectiveness capability to LED driver through measurement results.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.50-59
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• 2011

본 논문은 주파수 영역에서 과거와 현재에 센싱된 결과들의 관계를 이용한 스펙트럼 센싱기법을 제안하였다. 기존에 제안된 대부분의 스펙트럼 센싱기법은 해당 시간에 센싱된 우선사용자의 신호만을 다루고 있다. 해당 시간 이전의 우선사용자의 상태는 조건부확률을 사용하여 검출기의 신뢰성을 증가시킬 수 있다. 따라서, 본 논문은 이전 시간과 해당 시간의 스펙트럼 센싱 결과를 사용하는 cross entropy 기반의 스펙트럼 센싱기법을 제안하며 이를 통해 우선사용자 신호 검출 성능을 향상시키고 잡음에 강인한 성능을 가질 수 있다. 이전 시간에 검출된 신호가 잡음인 경우 cross entropy 기반의 스펙트럼 센싱 성능 감소는 기존의 entropy 기반의 센싱기법과 동일하게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 보다 향상된 cross entropy 센싱기법을 제안하였다. 본 논문은 시뮬레이션을 통해 가장 최근에 제안된 주파수 영역에서의 entropy 기반 스펙트럼 센싱기법 보다 제안된 방법이 더 나은 성능을 보이는 것을 보였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.201-206
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• 2020

This paper presents a new method for controlling the current of lighting LEDs without current sensors. This method can be used as backup against LED current sensor faults. LED lighting requires a circuit with a constant current in order to maintain the same brightness when the ambient temperature changes. Therefore, we propose a new current estimation method to provide backup in case of current sensor faults based on the calculation of the inductor current. In the fabricated circuit, the average current changes from 144.03 mA to 155.97 mA when the ambient temperature changes from 0℃ to 60℃. The application of this study can enable the fabrication of a driving IC for LEDs in the form of a single chip without sensing resistors. This is expected to reduce the complexity of the peripheral circuit and enable precise feedback control.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.133-138
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• 2014

This paper proposes a low power-loss averaging current mode control using a resistor and bypass switch. Generally, current sensing method using a resistor has a disadvantage of power loss which degrades the efficiency of the entire systems. On the other hand, proposed measurement technique operating with bypass-switch connected in parallel with sensing resistor can reduce power loss significantly the current sensor. An analog-circuited bypass driver is implemented and used along with an average-circuit mode controller. The bypass switch bypasses the sensing current with a small amount of power loss. In this paper, a 50[W] prototype average current mode boost converter has been implemented for the experimental verification.