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Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers

ISO Journal TitleJ Korean Inst. IIIum. Electr. Install. Eng.
Title A Study on the Controllable Snubber for Switching Loss Reduction in Interleaved Fly-Back Converter
Authors Chang-Seok Park ; Tae-Uk Jung
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5207/JIEIE.2015.29.5.057
Page pp.57-64
ISSN 1225-1135
Keywords Switching Algorithm ; Clamp Snubber ; ZVS ; Boost Converter ; Resonance
Abstract This paper proposes a new switching algorithm for an controllable clamp snubber to improve the efficiency of a fly-back converter system. This system uses an controllable clamp method for the snubber circuit for the efficiency and reliability of the system. However, the active clamp snubber circuit has the disadvantage that system efficiency is decreased by switch operating time because of heat loss in resonance between the snubber capacitor and leakage inductance. To address this, this paper proposes a new switching algorithm. The proposed algorithm is a technique to reduce power consumption by reducing the resonance of the snubber switch operation time. Also, the snubber switch is operated at zero voltage switching by turning on the snubber switch before main switch turn-off. Experimental results are presented to show the validity of the proposed controllable clamp control algorithm.