Fault tolerant high voltage resonant power converter application

Abstract

A high voltage and high power fault tolerant application of a resonant converter is presented. The resonant converter load shows frequent short circuits making the load voltage drop to zero within some us, implying high stress on the main circuit components. A load voltage short circuit fault tolerant system is suggested by including a novel way of augmenting the controller with a load voltage estimator. The estimator can detect load voltage short circuit and will then be a part of a fault tolerant high voltage resonant converter.