A Family of Coupled-Inductor-Based Soft-Switching DC–DC Converter With Double Synchronous Rectification.

In this paper, several new coupled-inductor-based soft-switching dc–dc converters are proposed. These converters are obtained by changing the coupled branch of several existing dc–dc converters. Meanwhile they have similar characteristics to these existing converters, and provide more choices for the practical application. Then by applying an existing efficiency improvement method, which is used in the buck-type soft-switching converter, to all abovementioned converters, several new converters with efficiency improvement characteristics are obtained. This efficiency improvement method utilizes the low conduction performance of the transistor to reduce the loss. In addition, this method has the same control complexity to original topologies, because the auxiliary transistor has the same control timing to one of main transistors. The characteristic of new converters and efficiency improvement method are presented by analyzing two new topologies (boost-type converters). Finally simulation and experimental results are given and analyzed by designing a prototype. Based on these results, soft-switching conditions and efficiency improvement capability are verified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]