Volume 4, Issue 12 (December 2017), Pages: 73-78

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: A multistage AC-AC converter designed by using switched capacitor techniques

 Author(s):  Kei Eguchi ^1, *, Wanglok Do ¹, Soranut Kittipanyangam ¹, Kanji Abe ¹, Ichirou Oota ²

 Affiliation(s):

 ¹Department of Information Electronics, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan
 ²Department of Information, Communication and Electronic Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kumamoto College, Kumamoto, Japan

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.012.015

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 Abstract:

To realize small and light ac-ac converter, a switched-capacitor (SC) technique is one of the most promising techniques, because heavy core and windings are not necessary to design the SC ac-ac converter. In this paper, a multistage direct ac-ac converter is designed by using SC techniques. Unlike conventional SC ac-ac converters, the proposed SC ac-ac converter consists of N (=2, 3, ...) converter blocks with symmetrical converter topology. To achieve high step-up/step-down gain, an input ac voltage is converted several times by the series-connected converter blocks. Due to the symmetrical multistage topology, the proposed SC ac-ac converter achieves not only high step-up/step-down gain but also fewer capacitors than conventional SC ac-ac converters. In other words, the proposed ac-ac converter can improve power efficiency and input power factor from conventional SC ac-ac converters. To clarify the characteristics of the proposed SC ac-ac converter, operation principle, qualitative analysis and simulation evaluation are presented. The validity of circuit design is confirmed by simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE) simulations. 

 © 2017 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Multistage converters, AC-AC converters, Switched-capacitor circuits, Step-up/step-down converters

 Article History: Received 16 February 2017, Received in revised form 1 September 2017, Accepted 20 September 2017

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.012.015

 Citation:

 Eguchi K, Do W, Kittipanyangam S, Abe K, and Oota I (2017). A multistage AC-AC converter designed by using switched capacitor techniques. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(12): 73-78

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