Inverter and driving method thereof
AssigneeFairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd.
InventorsSampat SHEKHAWAT, Myungbok KIM, Donghye CHO
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Abstract
An inverter and driving method of the inverter are disclosed. The inverter includes an active clamp forward (ACF) converter and a flyback converter. One of a forwarding operation of delivering current from a primary side to a secondary side by using the ACF converter and a backwarding operation of delivering current from the secondary side to the primary side by using the flyback converter is selected to generate a rectified AC.
Claims27
An inverter comprising:
- a hybrid converter generating a hybrid output voltage conforming to a rectified AC waveform according to one of a forwarding operation of delivering current from a primary side to a secondary side and a backwarding operation of delivering current from the secondary side to the primary side;
- a toggle circuit toggling the hybrid output voltage in units of one period of the hybrid output voltage to generate an AC output;
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- an inverter controller selecting one of the forwarding operation and the backwarding operation according to the hybrid output voltage, controlling a current transmission according to the selected operation, and controlling the operation of the toggle circuit,
- wherein the hybrid converter comprises an active clamp forward (ACF) converter and a flyback converter.
A method for driving an inverter including an active clamp forward (ACF) converter and a flyback converter, the method comprising:
- forwarding current from a primary side to a secondary side by using the ACF converter;
- backwarding current from the secondary side to the primary side by using the flyback converter;
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- selecting one of the forwarding operation and the backwarding operation according to a hybrid output voltage such that the hybrid output voltage conforms to a rectified AC waveform.
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