Abstract
In this paper, a detailed design procedure is presented for a bidirectional CLLLC-type resonant converter for a battery charging application. This converter is similar to an LLC-type resonant converter with an extra inductor and capacitor in the secondary side. Soft-switching can be ensured in all switches without additional snubber or clamp circuitry. Because of soft-switching in all switches, very high-frequency operation is possible; thus, the size of the magnetics and the filter capacitors can be made small. To reduce the size and cost of the converter, a CLLC-type resonant network is derived from the original CLLLC-type resonant network. First, in this paper, an equivalent model for the bidirectional converter is derived for the steady-state analysis. Then, the design methodology is presented for the CLLLC-type resonant converter. Design of this converter includes determining the transformer turns ratio, design of the magnetizing inductance based on ZVS condition, design of the resonant inductances and capacitances. Then, the CLLC-type resonant network is derived from the CLLLC-type resonant network. To validate the design procedure, a 3.5-kW converter was designed following the guidelines in the proposed methodology. A prototype was built and tested in the laboratory. Experimental results verified the design procedure presented.
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