This paper presents a new design approach for the soft-switching resonant converter with satisfying the multiple design conditions. As an example, the FM controlled class-E resonant converter is designed. By applying the class-E inverter at the inverter part, the resonant converter works with high efficiency at high frequencies. The class-E inverter has, however, problems, which are the high peak value of the switch voltage and the difficulty of the zero-voltage switching continuation against the load variations. Additionally, there is a restriction on the peak value of the transformer voltage. In the proposed design approach, we can find the proper component values, which satisfy the multiple constraint conditions simultaneously, by full-use of the numerical computations of the converter-characteristic visualization on the parameter space. From the quantitative agreements between the experimental results and numerical predictions, the validity and effectiveness of the proposed design approach were confirmed. INDEX TERMS Resonant converter, class-E inverter, push-pull class-E inverter, class-D full-wave rectifier, zero-voltage switching, frequency modulation control.
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