Tertiary side resonant dc/dc converter with integrated magnetics

This paper presents a constant frequency tertiary side resonant dc/dc converter topology. The proposed converter topology gives the opportunity to integrate all the resonant inductors with the output transformer and provides greater flexibility in selecting the resonant capacitors. The harmonic equivalent circuit model and frequency domain analysis, which incorporates the effect of the leakage inductance of the high frequency transformer are presented. Steady state characteristics curves are presented to describe the effect of the leakage inductance and resonant circuit parameters on the performance of the converter. It is shown that with a tuned parallel resonant circuit on the tertiary winding the converter can be operated at higher frequencies. Finally, the experimental results show a higher than 80% efficiency for a 500 W, 48 V to 5 V dc/dc converter operating at 128 kHz