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    A switched-capacitor-based serial DC-DC converter using clean energy power supplies
    (2011-06-01)
    Eguchi, Kei
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    Pongswatd, Sawai
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    Tirasesth, Kitti
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    Sasaki, Hirofumi
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    Oota, Ichirou
    Aimed at mobile back-lighting applications, a switched-capacitor-based serial DC-DC converter is proposed in this paper. By using battery energy and solar energy, the proposed converter generates the stepped-up voltage to drive white LEDs. Unlike conventional multiple-input parallel converters, the output voltage of the proposed converter is generated by adding the output voltage of the SC-based circuit to the voltage of solar-cells. For this reason, the proposed converter can realize not only small hardware-cost but also wide input-range. Concretely, in comparison with the conventional parallel converter using 1.5 × step-up SC converters, the proposed converter can achieve 20% reduction of hardware cost and 16% extension of input range. The characteristics of the proposed converter are clarified by theoretical analyses. Furthermore, SPICE simulations and experiments show the validity of circuit design, where theoretical results correspond well with simulation results. For this reason, derived theoretical formulas can provide basic information to design serial SC DC-DC converters. The proposed converter will be useful as a LED driver circuit for display back-lighting. © 2011 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.