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Equal Loss Distribution in Duty-Cycle Controlled H-Bridge LLC Resonant Converters

Kucka, Jakub  
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Dujic, Drazen  
2021
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

The duty-cycle control is a popular option for current limiting in LLC resonant converters. Such current limiting is required to protect the converter either during the start-up or during an overload. Although this method proved to be effective, the switching and conduction losses of the converter are increased because of the modified current waveforms in the resonant tank. Hence, for the safe operation, it is vital to distribute the losses between the switches symmetrically. However, the conventional duty-cycle or phase-shift modulation methods do not provide this naturally. This letter elaborates on a method that was proposed for a different soft-switching topology more than a decade ago to solve this problem, and is adaptable for the emerging dc transformers. Furthermore, a simple implementation of the method is shown and the equal distribution of losses is validated experimentally. The VHDL code with the implementation of the modulator is attached to this paper available openly for reuse.

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DOI
10.1109/TPEL.2020.3028879
Author(s)
Kucka, Jakub  
Dujic, Drazen  
Date Issued

2021

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Volume

36

5

Start page

4937

End page

4941

Subjects

EMPOWER

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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PEL  
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EU funding

818706

Available on Infoscience
October 27, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/172811
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