• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.249-256
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• 2007

This paper presents a new circuit topology and its digital control scheme for a half-bridge resonant inverter. As the proposed half-bridge inverter can be operated in load-freewheeling modes, the pulse-width modulation (PWM) method can be used for the output power control. The proposed half-bridge inverter is based on the resonant frequency-tracking algorithm with the goal of maintaining the unity of the output displacement factor of the load impedance even in varying conditions. In this paper, the operation principle, electrical characteristics, and detailed digital control scheme of the proposed half-bridge resonant inverter are described. The experimental results of the prototype experimental setup to verify the validity of the proposed half-bridge inverter are presented and discussed.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1504-1512
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• 2016

This paper presents a new single-phase asymmetrical cascaded multilevel DC-link inverter. The proposed inverter comprises two stages. The main stage of the inverter consists of multiple similar cells, each of which is a half-bridge inverter consisting of two switches and a single DC source. All cells are connected in a cascaded manner with a fixed neutral point. The DC source values are not made equal to increase the performance of the inverter. The second circuit is a folded cascaded H-bridge circuit operating at a line frequency. One of the main advantages of this proposed topology is that it is a modular type and can thus be extended to high stages without changing the configuration of the main stage circuit. Two control schemes, namely, low switching with selective harmonic elimination and sinusoidal pulse width modulation, are employed to validate the proposed topology. The detailed approach of each control scheme and switching pulses are discussed in detail. A 150W prototype of the proposed system is implemented in the laboratory to verify the validity of the proposed topology.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.330-339
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• 2006

This paper deals with novel electronic ballast based on single-stage power processing topology using a symmetrical half-bridge inverter and current injection circuit. The half-bridge inverter drives the output parallel resonant circuit and injects current through the power factor correction (PFC) circuit. Because of high frequency current injection and high frequency modulated voltage, the proposed circuit maintains the unity power factor (UPF) with low THD even under wide variation in ac input voltage. This circuit needs minimum and lower sized components to achieve the UPF and high efficiency. This leads to an increase in reliability of ballast at low cost. Furthermore, to reduce cost, the electronic ballast is designed for two series-connected fluorescent lamps (FL). The analysis and experimental results are presented for ($2{\times}36$ Watt) fluorescent lamps operating at 50 kHz switching frequency and input line voltage (230 V, 50 Hz).

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.153-156
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• 2004

This paper presents a new circuit topology of the half-bridge resonant inverter. As the proposed half-bridge inverter can be operated in the load freewheeling modes, pulse width modulation (PWM) control method can be used for the output power control. The proposed half-bridge inverter should keep unity output displacement factor under the load-impedance varying conditions, if a new PWM control scheme based on the resonant frequency tracking algorithm is adopted. In this paper, electrical characteristics, and losses analysis of the proposed half-bridge resonant inverter are described. Simulation and experimental results of the prototype experimental setup to verify the validity of the proposed half-bridge resonant inverter are presented and discussed.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.239-247
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• 2008

This paper presents the design of 1 kW prototype high frequency link boost half bridge inverter-fed DC-DC power converters with bridge voltage-doublers suitable for small scale PEM fuel cell systems and associated control schemes. The operation principle of this converter is described using fuel cell modeling and some operating waveforms. The switching mode equivalent circuits are based on simulation results and a detailed circuit operation analysis at soft-switching conditions.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.610-617
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• 2004

This paper presents a novel high frequency generating circuit integrated chopper-inverter using ZVS with high power-factor. The proposed topology is integrated half-bridge boost rectifier as power factor corrector(PFC) and half-bridge high frequency resonant inverter into a single-stage. The input stage of the half-bridge boost rectifier works in discontinuous conduction mode(DCM) with constant duty cycle and variable switching frequency. So that a boost converter makes the line current follow naturally the sinusoidal line voltage waveform. Simulation results have demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed high frequency resonant inverter. Characteristics values based on characteristics analysis through circuit analysis is given as basis data in design procedure. Also, experimental results are presented to verify theoretical discussion. This proposed inverter will be able to be practically used as a power supply in various fields as induction heating applications. fluorescent lamp and DC-DC converter etc.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.450-455
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• 2023

태양광 패널의 큰 기생 커패시턴스에 기인하는 과도한 누설 전류를 피하기 위한 단상 태양광 인버터 중에 부스트 컨버터와 하프브리지 인버터를 종속적으로 결합하는 방식은 가장 단순하면서 누설 전류가 가장 작다. 하지만 직류단 전압이 높아 스위칭 소자의 정격 전압이 높고 스위칭 손실이 크다. 본 논문은 부스트 컨버터를 제거하는 대신에 하프브리지 인버터의 출력 측에 2개의 양방향 스위치를 추가함으로써 벅부스트 인버터로 동작할 수 있는 새로운 회로 토폴로지를 제안한다. 고전압 직류단을 거치는 두 단계의 전력 변환을 한 단계로 줄인 덕분에 전력 손실을 절감할 수 있으며 비용 및 누설 전류는 증가하지 않는다. 제안된 회로 토폴로지의 타당성은 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 및 전력 손실 계산을 통해 검증한다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.256-262
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• 2017

This paper presents the control algorithm of a single-phase AC/DC/AC PWM converter for the linear compressor of a refrigerator. The AC/DC/AC converter consists of a full-bridge PWM converter for the control of the input power factor and a half-bridge PWM inverter for the control of the single-phase linear compressor. At the DC-link of this topology, two capacitors are connected in series. These DC-link voltages must be balanced for safe operation. Thus, a new control method of DC voltage balancing for the half-bridge PWM inverter is proposed. The balancing algorithm uses the Integral-Proportional controller and inserts the DC-offset current at the Proportional-Resonant current controller of the inverter to solve the DC-link unbalanced voltages between the two capacitors. The proposed algorithm can be easily implemented without much computation and additional hardware circuit. The usefulness of the proposed algorithm is verified through several experiments.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.593-603
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• 2009

This paper proposes and describes the design and operational principles of a three-phase three-level nine switch voltage source inverter. The proposed topology consists of three bi-directional switches inserted between the source and the full-bridge power switches of the classical three-phase inverter. As a result, a three-level output voltage waveform and a significant suppression of load harmonics contents are obtained at the inverter output. The harmonics content of the proposed multilevel inverter can be reduced by half compared with two-level inverters. A Fourier analysis of the output waveform is performed and the design is optimized to obtain the minimum total harmonic distortion. The full-bridge power switches of the classical three-phase inverter operate at the line frequency of 50Hz, while the auxiliary circuit switches operate at twice the line frequency. To validate the proposed topology, both simulation and analysis have been performed. In addition, a prototype has been designed, implemented and tested. Selected simulation and experimental results have been provided.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.71-80
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 새로운 하프브리지 공진형 인버터 토폴로지와 디지털 제어회로를 제안하였다. 제안된 인버터는 부하환류 모드를 제공함으로써 펄스폭 변조방식을 통해 출력을 제어할 수 있다. 따라서 부하측 고유 공진주파수를 추종하는 PWM 제어가 적용될 경우, 부하측 임피던스가 변화하는 조건하에서도 인버터 출력단의 변위율을 항상 1로 유지할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 하프브리지 공진형 인버터의 동작원리와 전기적 특성 및 통상의 하프브리지 인버터와 비교한 손실해석에 대하여 고찰하였고, 제안된 알고리즘을 구현하기 위한 디지털 제어회로를 제시하였다. 또한 제안된 인버터의 유효성을 확인하기 위한 실험을 통해서 얻은 결과를 제시하였다.