Design and implementation of a xenon flash lamp power supply system for electronic printing application

Min-Kyu Choi; Seung-Ho Song; Hong-Je Ryoo

Design and implementation of a xenon flash lamp power supply system for electronic printing application

Min-Kyu Choi

Seung-Ho Song

Hong-Je Ryoo

Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 373-381, Mar. 2024

10.1007/s43236-023-00753-6

LCC resonant converter

Abstract

This study attempted to implement the pulse power supply and ignition circuits of a xenon flash lamp in intense pulsed light (IPL) systems used in electronic printing. Owing to the unique load characteristics of the xenon fl ash lamp, a special power supply design is essential to drive it. Specifi cally, the pulse power supply integrates the LCC resonant converter-based charging unit, designed to achieve high efficiency and high-power density charging, and a discharging unit, comprising the discharging IGBT and RDC snubber circuits, to realize stable pulse transfer to the load. For the ignition process, the high-voltage output trigger was designed based on the Cockcroft–Walton voltage multiplier. Meanwhile, the simmer was adopted as the step-down LCC resonant converter with the characteristics of both voltage and current sources to maintain the xenon flash lamp ignition. An auxiliary ignition circuit based on a boost-type resonant circuit was also added to stabilize the simmer output during ignition. In this study, we analyzed the sequence of operating the xenon lamp for ignition and light sintering by designing and developing appropriate parameters for each specification. Finally, the implemented power supply was verifi ed through simulated load, and the xenon flash lamp was confi rmed to be turned on normally through experiments. Additionally, the reliability was verified by applying the proposed device to the IPL system.

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[IEEE Style]

M. Choi, S. Song, H. Ryoo, "Design and implementation of a xenon flash lamp power supply system for electronic printing application," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 373-381, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s43236-023-00753-6.

[ACM Style]

Min-Kyu Choi, Seung-Ho Song, and Hong-Je Ryoo. 2024. Design and implementation of a xenon flash lamp power supply system for electronic printing application. Journal of Power Electronics, 24, 3, (2024), 373-381. DOI: 10.1007/s43236-023-00753-6.