ISOLATED INTERLEAVED DC CONVERTER

• US 20140104893A1
• Filed: 11/27/2012
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
• Original Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
• Inventors: Pan, Ching-Tsai, Chen, Po-Yen, Cheng, Ming-Chieh, Cheng, Ching-Hsiang
• Application Number:
  US13/686,023
• Publication Number:
  US 20140104893A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/21.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0058 by employing soft switching techniques, i.e. commutation of transistors when applied voltage is zero or when current flow is zero using an auxiliary actively switched resonant commutation circuit connected to an intermediate DC voltage or between two push-pull branches of an inverter bridge H02M7/4811; in resonant inverters H02M7/4815; in inverters operating from a resonant DC source H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/01 Resonant DC/DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/07 using capacitors charged and discharged alternately by semiconductor devices with control electrode , e.g. charge pumps
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/335 using semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33571 Half-bridge at primary side of an isolation transformer
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/10 Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes

Abstract

An isolated interleaved DC converter has a main circuit architecture integrating a transformer, a dual-phase interleaved step-up circuit, a voltage type auto charge pump circuit with a double-voltage rectifier circuit. The circuit of the invention integrates with the transformer, and combines the dual-phase interleaved boost circuit and the voltage type auto charge pump circuit at a primary side of the transformer to reduce the input current ripple. At a secondary side of the transformer, the circuit of the invention further combines the double-voltage rectifier circuit. The active switching elements can be further integrated in the dual-phase interleaved boost circuit to realize the soft switching technology while reducing EMI and the switching loss and increasing the circuit conversion efficiency.

Claims

1. An isolated interleaved DC converter, used to convert a DC input voltage into a DC output voltage in order to provide a load with power supply, comprising:

a front-end conversion circuit, comprising a dual-phase interleaved boost circuit and a voltage-type auto charge pump circuit, wherein the dual-phase interleaved boost circuit is provided with a negative voltage terminal at an input side respectively coupling to a first active switching element and a second active switching element in parallel, a positive voltage terminal at the input side respectively coupling to a first inductor and a second inductor in parallel, and wherein the first active switching element and the first inductor which is coupled to the first active switching element in series are coupled in series to a semi-resonant circuit of the voltage-type auto charge pump circuit;

the semi-resonant circuit is coupled to one common node between the first active switching element and the first inductor and includes a third inductor and a first capacitor coupled to the third inductor in parallel;

the voltage-type auto charge pump circuit further includes a second capacitor coupled in series to the semi-resonant circuit; and

the second capacitor is coupled in parallel to a common node between the second active switching element and the second inductor; and

a transformer, wherein a primary side of the transformer is coupled to the front-end conversion circuit and to the second capacitor in parallel, a secondary side of the transformer is coupled to a rear-end conversion circuit which is electrically coupled with the front-end conversion circuit through the transformer.

2. The isolated interleaved DC converter of claim 1, wherein the secondary side of the transformer is coupled with the rear-end conversion circuit which is a full-bridge rectifier circuit constituted by four diodes and a capacitor.

3. The isolated interleaved DC converter of claim 1, wherein the secondary side of the transformer is coupled with the rear-end conversion circuit which is a double-voltage rectifier circuit constituted by two diodes and two capacitors.

4. The isolated interleaved DC converter of claim 1, wherein the transformer is a multi-winding transformer, and the secondary side of the transformer is coupled with the rear-end conversion circuit which is a rectifier circuit constituted by two diodes and one capacitor.

5. The isolated interleaved DC converter of claim 1, wherein the transformer is a multi-winding transformer, and the secondary side of the transformer is coupled with the rear-end conversion circuit which is a triple-voltage rectifier circuit constituted by four diodes and three capacitors.

6. The isolated interleaved DC converter of claim 1, wherein the transformer is a multi-winding transformer, and the secondary side of the transformer is coupled with the rear-end conversion circuit which is a four times-voltage rectifier circuit constituted by four diodes and four capacitors.

7. The isolated interleaved DC converter of claim 1, wherein the transformer is a multi-winding transformer, and the secondary side of the transformer is coupled with the rear-end conversion circuit which is a five times-voltage rectifier circuit constituted by six diodes and five capacitors.

8. The isolated interleaved DC converter of claim 1, wherein the transformer is a multi-winding transformer, and the secondary side of the transformer is coupled with the rear-end conversion circuit which is a six times-voltage rectifier circuit constituted by six diodes and six capacitors.