Asymmetrical Duty Cycle Controlled Full-Bridge LLC Resonant Converter with Equivalent Switching Frequency Doubler
- 18 September 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- Vol. 31 (08858993), 1
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2015.2478422
Abstract
In the conventional full-bridge LLC converter, the duty cycle is kept as 0.5 and the phase-shift angle of the half-bridge modules is 0° to be a symmetrical operation, which makes the resonant tank operating frequency only equal to the switching frequency of the power devices. By regulating the duty cycles of the upper and lower switches in each half-bridge module to be 0.75 and 0.25 and the phase-shift angle of the half-bridge modules to be 180°, the asymmetrical duty cycle controlled full-bridge LLC resonant converter is derived. The proposed asymmetrical duty cycle controlled scheme halves the switching frequency of the primary switches. As a result, the driving losses are effectively reduced. Compared with the conventional full-bridge LLC converter, the soft-switching condition of the derived asymmetrical controlled LLC converter becomes easier to reduce the resonant current. Consequently, the conduction losses are decreased and the conversion efficiency is improved. The asymmetrical control scheme can be also extended to the stacked structure for high input voltage applications. Finally, two LLC converter prototypes both with 200-kHz resonant frequency for asymmetrical and symmetrical control schemes are built and compared to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51361130150)
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