A Soft-Switching Single-Stage Converter with High Efficiency for a 3.3-kW On-Board Charger

Abstract

This paper presents a highly efficient 3.3-kW single-stage on-board charger (OBC). The proposed OBC consists of two interleaved cells sharing a full-bridge diode rectifier. Each cell is composed of an active clamp circuit and a series resonant circuit. The proposed OBC provides zero-voltage switching of all switches and reduces the reverse-recovery problem by zero-current switching of the output diodes. The interleaved technique maintains the proper power level with high efficiency. The proposed control algorithm enables power factor correction by the OBC without any auxiliary circuit and balances the input current between the two cells. In addition, the proposed converter requires no electrolytic dc-link capacitor, ensuring compact size and a long lifetime. Owing to these features, the proposed OBC efficiently outputs a high power factor over a wide power range and achieves reliability with a simply structured, single-power processing step. Therefore, the proposed OBC is potentially feasible for automotive applications. Finally, the theoretical analysis is confirmed in a 3.3-kW prototype and validated in experimental results. © 1982-2012 IEEE.