Bidirectional PWM converter integrating cell voltage equalizer using series-resonant voltage multiplier for series-connected energy storage cells

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3077-3090

  Uno, Masatoshi ^a   Kukita, Akio ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Battery; Equalizer; Integrated converter; Series resonant voltage multiplier; Supercapacitor; Voltage imbalance

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ENERGY STORAGE; EQUALIZERS; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

BATTERY; INTEGRATED CONVERTERS; SUPER CAPACITOR; VOLTAGE IMBALANCE; VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84921803119     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2331312     Document Type: Article

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