The Implementation of a High Efficiency Full-Bridge Converter

Joy Iong-Zong Chen

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DOI: 10.4236/eng.2011.34038                

Abstract

A high efficiency full-bridge converter is investigated and implemented in this paper. The measured data result from the other converter implemented by IC UCC3895 is to compare with that of the previous converter. This full-bridge converter proposed and implemented converter can obtain about 96% power efficiency in conversion procedure when compared with that of 90%, which were ever published by the conventional techniques. Apart from, the L-C resonance circuits were developed and embedded into the popular PWM (pulse width modulation) power converter, which is referred as the soft-switching, so as to down sizing the volume of the IC which can totally reduces the power losses caused in the duration of a semi-con- ductor switching.

Keywords

High Efficiency Full-Bridge Converter, Switching Losses, Synchronization Filter

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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