Single-magnetic cell-to-cell charge equalization converter with reduced number of transformer windings

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2900-2911

  Park, Sang Hyun ^a   Park, Ki Bum ^b   Kim, Hyoung Suk ^a   Moon, Gun Woo ^a   Youn, Myung Joong ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Battery equalizer; cell to cell charge equalization; multiwinding transformer

Indexed keywords

BUCK-BOOST; CHARGE EQUALIZATION; CHARGE TRANSPORTATION; CIRCUIT SIZE; CURRENT PATHS; FLYBACK; LITHIUM-ION BATTERY; MULTI-WINDING TRANSFORMER;

CYTOLOGY; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

CELLS;

EID: 84859094464     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2178040     Document Type: Article

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