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A Study on Sensorless Control Methods for BDCM Drives (브러시리스 직류전동기를 위한 센서리스 제어 방식에 관한 연구)

  • 김윤호;조병국;국윤상
    • The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.62-70
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    • 1995
  • Brushless DC Motor (BDCM) is widely used in the industry such as a variable speed motor in a compressor for room air conditioners, because the motor can be easily controlled and operated over a wide speed range. The system to drive BDCM needs encoder that senses rotor position. Gut in a certain application, the position sensor has to be avoided. In the paper, various position sensorless drive systems for BDCM are investigated and critically evaluated, so that the effective method of sensorless control can be selected. Out of these methods, the freewheeling diode current sensing has many advantages. For example, the simple starting procedure makes it possible to perform sensorless control even in low speed. So the hardware design for this method has been carried out and the system has been implemented using DSP. The experimental results verified that the freewheeling diode current sensing approach has advantages in starting procedure and low speed sensing.

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A Simple Structure of Zero-Voltage Switching (ZVS) and Zero-Current Switching (ZCS) Buck Converter with Coupled Inductor

  • Wei, Xinxin;Luo, Ciyong;Nan, Hang;Wang, Yinghao
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1480-1488
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, a revolutionary buck converter is proposed with soft-switching technology, which is realized by a coupled inductor. Both zero-voltage switching (ZVS) of main switch and zero-current switching (ZCS) of freewheeling diode are achieved at turn on and turn off without using any auxiliary circuits by the resonance between the parasitic capacitor and the coupled inductor. Furthermore, the peak voltages of the main switch and the peak current of the freewheeling diode are significantly reduced by the coupled inductor. As a result, the proposed converter has the advantages of simple circuit, convenient control, low consumption and so on. The detailed operation principles and steady-state analysis of the proposed ZVS-ZCS buck converter are presented, and detailed power loss analysis and some simulation results are also included. Finally, experimental results based on a 200-W prototype are provided to verify the theory and design of the proposed converter.

BUCK DC-DC Converter to Reduce Power Stress of Switching Device (스위칭 소자의 전력 스트레스를 제거하기 위한 BUCK DC-DC 컨버터)

  • 이성백;박진홍
    • The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.54-61
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, the conventional ZVS-QRC buck dc-dc converter is analyzed using simulation and the problem in confirmed through it. According to varying the load resistance lower, it is provided that the stress of the device is increased. The reason is seen that the voltage is increased by parasitic capacitance of freewheeling diode. Novel ZVS-converter is proposed to improve the problems.

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Reverse-Conducting IGBT Using MEMS Technology on the Wafer Back Side

  • Won, Jongil;Koo, Jin Gun;Rhee, Taepok;Oh, Hyung-Seog;Lee, Jin Ho
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.603-609
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we present a 600-V reverse conducting insulated gate bipolar transistor (RC-IGBT) for soft and hard switching applications, such as general purpose inverters. The newly developed RC-IGBT uses the deep reactive-ion etching trench technology without the thin wafer process technology. Therefore, a freewheeling diode (FWD) is monolithically integrated in an IGBT chip. The proposed RC-IGBT operates as an IGBT in forward conducting mode and as an FWD in reverse conducting mode. Also, to avoid the destructive failure of the gate oxide under the surge current and abnormal conditions, a protective Zener diode is successfully integrated in the gate electrode without compromising the operation performance of the IGBT.

Development of New 1200V SPM® Smart Power Module for up to 6kW Motor Drive Applications (6kW급 모터 드라이브 시스템을 위한 새로운 1200V SPM 개발)

  • Park, Sangmin;Lee, Kangyoon;Hong, Seunghyun;Ko, Jaesung;Kwon, Taesung;Yong, Sungil
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.485-486
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    • 2015
  • This paper introduces the new 1200V $SPM^{(R)}$ (Smart Power Module), which is fully optimized and intelligent integrated IGBT inverter modules for up to 6kW motor drive applications. It utilizes newly developed NPT trench IGBT with the advanced STEALTHTM freewheeling diode, and built-in bootstrap diode. HVICs, multi-function LVIC, and built-in thermistor provide good reliable characteristics for the entire system. This module also takes technical advantage of DBC(Direct Bonded Copper) substrate for the better thermal performance. This paper provides an overall description of the newly developed 1200V/35A $SPM^{(R)}$ 2 product.

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Development of 3.0[kW]class Fuel Cell Power Conversion System (3[kW]급 연료전지용 전력변환장치의 개발)

  • Suh, Ki-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.54-63
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    • 2007
  • Recently, a fuel cell with low voltage and high current output characteristics is remarkable for new generation system. It needs both a DC-DC step-up converter and DC-AC inverter to be used in fuel cell generation system. Therefor, this paper, consists of an isolated DC-DC converter to boost the fuel cell voltage $380[V_{DC}]$ and a PWM inverter with LC filter to convent the DC voltage to single-phase $220[V_{AC}]$. Expressly, a tapped inductor filter with freewheeling diode is newly implemented in the output filter of the proposed high frequency isolated ZVZCS PWM DC-DC converter to suppress circulating current under the wide output voltage regulation range, thus to eliminate the switching and transformer turn-on/off over-short voltage or transient phenomena. Besides the efficiency of 93-97[%]is obtained over the wide output voltage regulation ranges and load variations.

A Fault Diagnosis Method in Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Inverter Using Output Current Analysis

  • Lee, June-Hee;Lee, June-Seok;Lee, Kyo-Beum
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.2278-2288
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    • 2017
  • Multilevel converter topologies are widely used in many applications. The cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (CHBMI), which is one of many multilevel converter topologies, has been introduced as a useful topology in high and medium power. However, it has a drawback to require a lot of switches. Therefore, the reliability of CHBMI is important factor for analyzing the performance. This paper presents a simple switch fault diagnosis method for single-phase CHBMI. There are two types of switch faults: open-fault and short-fault. In the open-fault, the body diode of faulty switch provides a freewheeling current path. However, when the short-fault occurs, the distortion of output current is different from that of the open-fault because it has an unavailable freewheeling current flow path due to a disconnection of fuse. The fault diagnosis method is based on the zero current time analysis according to zero-voltage switching states. Using the proposed method, it is possible to detect the location of faulty switch accurately. The PSIM simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of proposed switch fault diagnosis method.

Novel soft switching FB DC-DC converter (새로운 소프트 스위칭 FB DC-DC 컨버터)

  • 김은수;최해영;조기연;계문호;김윤호
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 1997.07a
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    • pp.251-255
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    • 1997
  • The conventional high frequency phase-shifted full bridge dc/dc converter has a disadvantage that a circulating current flows through transformer and switching devices during the freewheeling interval. Due to this circulating current, RMS current stress, conduction losses of transformer and switching devices are increased. To alleviate this problem, this paper provides a circulating current free type high frequency soft switching phase-shifted full bridge (FB) dc/dc converter with energy recovery snubber (ERS) attached at the secondary side of transformer. The energy recovery snubber (ERS) adopted in this study is consisted of three fast recovery diode(Ds1, DS2, Ds3), two resonant capacitor (Cs1, Cs2)

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Design Consideration for Structure of 2500-4500V RC-GCT

  • Kim E. D.;Kim S. C.;Zhang C. L.;Kim N. K.;Bai J. B.;Li J. H.;Lu J. Q.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.36-38
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    • 2001
  • A basic structure of 2500V-4500V reverse-conducting GCT (RC-GCT) is given in this paper. The punch-through type (PT) is adopted for narrow N-base with high resistivity so that the fast turn-off and low on-state voltage can be achieved. The photo mask design was made upon the both turn-off performance and solution of separation between GCT and integrated freewheeling diode (FWD) part. The turn-on and turn-off characteristics for reserve-conducting gate commutated thyristors (RC-GCTs) were investigated by ISE simulation. Additionally, the local carrier lifetime control by proton irradiation was adopted so as not only to obtain the reduction of turn-off losses of GCT but also to reach a soft reverse recovering characteristics of FWD

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An Interleaved PWM Buck Converter with a Soft Switching Auxiliary Circuit (소프트 스위칭 형태의 보조 회로를 이용한 인터리브드 벅 컨버터)

  • Lee, Eui-Cheon;Choi, Hyun-Chil
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.547-555
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes the interleaved buck converter using a soft switching auxiliary circuit. In this scheme, an auxiliary circuit is added to the conventional interleaved buck converter and used to achieve soft-switching conditions for both the main switch and freewheeling diode. In addition, the switch in the auxiliary circuit operates under soft-switching conditions. Also, according to the input to output conditions, the main switch achieved zero-current-transition(ZCT) or zero-current & zero-voltage-transition(ZCZVT) at turn on. Thus, the proposed interleaved buck converter provides a higher efficiency. The basic operations, in this paper, are discussed and design guidelines are presented. The usefulness of the proposed converter is verified on a 200kHz, 180W prototype converter.