In order to recover and fully charge batteries in Electric Vehicles, smart battery chargers should not only work under different loading conditions and output voltage regulations (close to zero to 1.5 times the nominal output voltage), but also provide a ripple-free charging current for battery packs and a noise-free environment for the Battery Management System (BMS). In this paper, an advanced LLC design procedure is investigated to provide advantageous extreme regulation and eliminate detrimental burst mode operation. A modified, special LLC tank driven by both Variable Frequency (VF) and Phase Shift (PS) proves to be a successful solution to achieve all the regulation requirements for battery charging (from recovery, bulk, equalization, to finish). The proposed solution can eliminate the negative impact of burst mode noises on the Battery Management System, provide a free-ripple charging current for batteries in different States of Charge, reduce the switching frequency variation, and facilitate the EMI filter and magnetic components designs procedure. In order to fully consider the characteristics of the full bridge LLC resonant converter, especially the output voltage regulation range and soft transitions of the MOSFETs in the Fixed Frequency Phase Shift mode, a new set of analytical equations is obtained for the LLC resonant converter with consideration of separated primary and secondary leakage inductances of the high frequency transformer. Based on the proposed strategy and analytical equations, multivariate statistical design methodology is employed to design and optimize a 120VDC, 3kW battery charger. The experimental results exhibit the excellent performance of the resulting converter, which has a peak efficiency of 96.5% with extreme regulation capability.Index Terms -Full bridge LLC resonant converter, hybrid modulation strategy, battery charger applications, recovering dead battery, wide output voltage regulation, full soft switching conditions.
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