The aim of this invention focuses on the development of a high-efficiency
bidirectional converter for power sources with great voltage diversity.
In traditional bidirectional converters, the circuit topology with
transformer form is the common usual. Moreover, the soft-switching
techniques including zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) or
zero-current-switching (ZCS) are usually used for alleviating the
corresponding switching losses. However, there are four and upward power
semiconductor switches in these circuit schemes. By this way, it will
result in the increase of production cost, and the degeneration of
conversion efficiency. The coupled-inductor bidirectional scheme in the
proposed converter only adopts three power semiconductor switches to
accomplish the objective of bidirectional current control. Under the
situation of non-isolation circuit topology, it still possesses the
protection of electric safety for operators. Due to the characteristics
of high step-up and step-down ratio, the battery module with low voltage
could be injected into a high-voltage dc bus for the later utilization,
e.g., high-voltage load, front-end of inverter. Since the techniques of
voltage clamping, synchronous rectification and soft switching are
manipulated in this circuit topology, and the corresponding device
specifications are adequately performed, it can achieve the goal of
high-efficiency bidirectional power conversion for power sources with
great voltage diversity.