Analysis and Pareto Frontier Based Tradeoff Design of an Integrated Magnetic Structure for a <i>CLLC</i> Resonant Converter

This paper proposes an integrated magnetic structure for a <i>CLLC</i> resonant converter. With the proposed integrated magnetic structure, two resonant inductances and the transformer are integrated into one magnetic core, which improves the power density of the <i>CLLC</i>...

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Main Authors: Gang Wang, Qiyu Hu, Chunyu Xu, Bin Zhao, Xiaobao Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/6/1756
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Summary:This paper proposes an integrated magnetic structure for a <i>CLLC</i> resonant converter. With the proposed integrated magnetic structure, two resonant inductances and the transformer are integrated into one magnetic core, which improves the power density of the <i>CLLC</i> resonant converter. In the proposed integrated magnetic structure, two resonant inductances are decoupled with the transformer and can be adjusted by the number of turns in each inductance. Furthermore, two resonant inductances are coupled to reduce the number of turns in each inductance. As a result, the conduction loss can be reduced. The trade-off design of the integrated magnetic structure is carried out based on the Pareto optimization procedure. With the Pareto optimization procedure, both high efficiency and high-power density can be achieved. The proposed integrated magnetic structure is validated by theoretical analysis, simulations, and experiments.
ISSN:1996-1073