How the new SPARC topology can reduce the size of passive filters

Author

Lequeu, T. ; Kalvelage, G. ; Aubin, P.

Author_Institution

Departement Productique, Ecole Polytechnique de Tours, France

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

15-19 June 2003

Firstpage

371

Abstract

The patentees of the SPARC patent, from FAIVELEY Transport, propose a new structure of interleaved converter. The interlacing of the switch controls removes the discontinuities in the input and output electric signals, which present a weak ripple signal at high frequency, therefore reducing the size of the associated filters. The principle of operation is illustrated, with a steady state analysis for a DC to DC converter. The effectiveness of the proposed converter topology is verified by implementing a 1 kW - 20 kHz hardware simulator using IGBTs and fast recovery diodes.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; insulated gate bipolar transistors; passive filters; power semiconductor diodes; switching convertors; 1 kW; 20 kHz; AC-DC converter; DC to DC converter; FAIVELEY Transport; IGBT; SPARC topology; discontinuities; fast recovery diodes; hardware simulator; high frequency; input electric signals; interleaved converter; output electric signals; passive filters size reduction; steady state analysis; switch controls; weak ripple signal; DC-DC power converters; Diodes; Frequency; Hardware; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Passive filters; Size control; Steady-state; Switches; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialist Conference, 2003. PESC '03. 2003 IEEE 34th Annual

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7754-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2003.1218321

Filename

1218321