Abstract
The voltage source full bridge series load resonant high frequency soft switching inverter using pulse phaseshift modulation (PSM) strategy is proposed, which can operate ZVS in the left hand side bridge leg and ZCS in the right side bridge leg. This inverter using IGBTs employs two passive components and does not need any additional auxiliary circuit for the active power switch to achieve soft switching commutation, and it has wide soft switching operation region from full power to 3% light power. Furthermore, constant frequency power regulation that is required for induction-heating power applications is introduced on the basis of PSM. In this paper, steady state switching modes of the inverter treated here and its power regulation scheme by PSM are described under a soft switching scheme. Because the proposed inverter can operate at series resonant frequency of series resonant circuit under soft switching condition, it is easy to design the value of series resonant capacitor. The design methods of loss-less snubbing circuit components for soft switching are described to reduce switching losses effectively. The feasible experiment of the proposed inverter is implemented to demonstrate the power regulation performance of proposed high frequency inverter, high efficiency 97.6% at full power condition is obtained.
