A Novel Auxiliary Edge-Resonant Snubber-Assisted Soft Switching PWM High Frequency Inverter with Series Capacitor Compensated Resonant Load for Consumer Induction Heating

In this paper, a novel prototype of auxiliary switched capacitor assisted voltage source soft switching PWM Single-Ended Push Pull (SEPP) series capacitor compensated load resonant inverter with two auxiliary edge resonant lossless inductor snubbers is proposed and discussed for small scale consumer high-frequency induction heating (IH) appliances. The operation principle of this inverter is described by using switching mode equivalent circuits. The newly developed multi resonant high-frequency inverter using trench gate IGBTs can regulate its output AC power via constant frequency edge-resonant associated soft switching commutation by using an asymmetrical PWM control or duty cycle control scheme. The brand-new consumer IH products which use the newly proposed edge-resonant soft switching PWM-SEPP type series load resonant high-frequency inverters are evaluated using power regulation characteristics, actual efficiency vs. duty cycle and input power vs. actual efficiency characteristics. Their operating performance compared with some conventional soft switching high-frequency inverters for IH appliances is discussed on the basis of simulation and experimental results. The practical effectiveness of the newly proposed soft switching PWM SEPP series load resonant inverter is verified from an application point of view as being suitable for consumer high-frequency IH appliances.

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[IEEE Style]

N. A. Ahmed, T. Iwai, H. Omori, H. W. Lee, M. Nakaoka, "A Novel Auxiliary Edge-Resonant Snubber-Assisted Soft Switching PWM High Frequency Inverter with Series Capacitor Compensated Resonant Load for Consumer Induction Heating," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 95-103, 2006. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2006.6.2.95.

[ACM Style]

Nabil A. Ahmed, Toshiaki Iwai, Hideki Omori, Hyun Woo Lee, and Mutsuo Nakaoka. 2006. A Novel Auxiliary Edge-Resonant Snubber-Assisted Soft Switching PWM High Frequency Inverter with Series Capacitor Compensated Resonant Load for Consumer Induction Heating. Journal of Power Electronics, 6, 2, (2006), 95-103. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2006.6.2.95.