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    Design of a dual-input buck-boost converter for mobile back-lighting applications
    (2012-04-01)
    Eguchi, Kei
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    Pongswatd, Sawai
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    Julsereewong, Amphawan
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    Oota, Ichirou
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    Terada, Shinya
    For mobile back-lighting applications, a dual-input white LED (WLED) driver using a bi-direction buck-boost converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed driver has two input terminals: battery input V <inf>in1</inf> and solar-cell input V <inf>in2</inf>. Unlike conventional drivers using boost converters, step-up SC DC-DC converters, and so on, the proposed converter drives the anode and the cathode of LEDs by using the solar-cell's voltage and the negative stepped-down voltage, respectively. Furthermore, by converting solar energy, the proposed driver can charge a rechargeable battery when the LED backlight is standby mode. Therefore, the proposed driver can achieve long battery lifetime. The validity of the proposed driver is confirmed by SPICE simulations and experiments. SPICE simulations show that the proposed driver can offer the sufficient voltage to drive LEDs by using solar energy and battery energy in spite of the variation in V <inf>in2</inf>. Furthermore, by employing a bi-direction buck-boost converter, the proposed driver provides us to realize long battery lifetime, because the battery charge process was confirmed by experiments. © 2012 ICIC International.
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    Synthesis and analysis of a dual-input parallel DC-DC converter designed by using switched capacitor techniques
    (2011-04-01)
    Eguchi, Kei
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    Oota, Ichirou
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    Pongswatd, Sawai
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    Julsereewong, Amphawan
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    Tirasesth, Kitti
    As a building block of mobile equipments, single-input switched-capacitor (SC) power converters have been used. However, the single-input converter is difficult to improve battery runtime by adjusting a voltage conversion ratio, because the ratio of the voltage conversion is predetermined by circuit structure. To solve this problem, a dual-input parallel-connected converter designed by the SC technique is proposed in this paper. Although the conventional single-input converter uses a lithium battery as an input energy source, the proposed dual-input converter uses not only a lithium battery but also solar cells. For the conventional SC converters, the energy conversion of clean energy is difficult, because the voltage of clean energy sources such as solar cells is sensitive to weather condition. To adopt the change in the voltage of clean energy input, the proposed converter provides the multi-state step-up conversion. By converting clean energy, the proposed converter realizes long battery runtime. Moreover, to design the multiple-input converter, the theoretical analysis to clarify circuit characteristics is required, because detailed analyses concerning multiple-input SC DC-DC converters have not been performed yet. Therefore, concerning circuit characteristics of the proposed dual-input converter, handy theoretical formulas are given in this paper. Through SPICE simulations, theoretical analyses and experiments, the validity of the proposed converter is confirmed. The theoretical results correspond well with SPICE simulation results. Therefore, the proposed analysis technique can be extended to the circuit design of other multiple-input SC DC-DC converters. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the proposed converter can generate the stepped-up voltage in spite of the change in the voltage of solar cells. Therefore, the proposed converter can realize long battery runtime. ICIC International © 2011.