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	The follows is the email from the edit-in-chief of 

IEEE Power Electronics.

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17-Jul-2006

Dear Mr. Li:

Manuscript ID TPEL-2006-05-0267 entitled "An Interleaved 

Winding-Coupled Boost Converter with Passive Lossless Clamp Circuits" which you 

submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, has been reviewed.  

The comments of the reviewer(s) are included at the bottom of this 

letter.

The reviewer(s) have recommended publication, but also suggest some 

revisions to your manuscript.  Therefore, I invite you to respond to the 

reviewer(s)' comments and revise your manuscript.

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Once again, thank you for submitting your manuscript to the IEEE 

Transactions on Power Electronics and I look forward to receiving your 

revision.

Sincerely,

Prof. Frede Blaabjerg

Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

fbl@iet.aau.dk

Reviewer(s)' Comments to Author:

Reviewer: 1

Comments to Author

The proposed circuit is an original solution to the problem of DC 

voltage step -up with high gain . 

However , it should be quoted in the state of the art a previous 

attempt to solve this problem using also a two-boost structure in interleaved 

operation with magnetic coupling . See : 

R.Giral , L.Mart韓ez-Salamero, R. Leyva and J. Maix?" Sliding-Mode 

Control of Interleaved Boost Converters " IEEE Transactions on Circuits 

and Systems, I . Fundamental Theory and Applications , Vol 47, n?9 , 

September 2000, pp 1330-1339. In this reference a voltage doubler and a 

voltage quadriplier are reported.

On the other hand , to conclude that the proposed converter is an 

excellent candidate for low voltage input is a very optimistic statement . 

What would it happen for a 6 V input voltage and the same level of power 

? In such case , the currents will be approximately multiplied by a 

factor of 7 and the performances of the magnetic network will be 

undoubtedly degraded. However , for a 40 V or bigger at the input port ( typical 

output voltage of certain  fuel cells ) , the proposed converter will 

be a good candidate.

Also , note that N is not defined in expression (3) ( In fact it is 

defined later in Section III )

Expressions (22) and ( 23 ) show the voltage stresses for switches and 

clamp diodes in the case of K=1. Which are the corresponding 

expressions in the general case , i.e, K different of 1 ?

Which is the best solution of the three possible passive lossless clamp 

circuits ?

Please, correct some spelling and syntax mistakes : wingding , evolved 

, follows , feathers ,stages ( in Fig. 7 )..

In Figs 16 and 17 , power Pout should be expressed in watts.

Change the meaning of the sentence in Section III after the caption of 

Fig.5 : ".....that the duty ratio should be greater than 0.5 to obtain 

high step-up gain " Cannot we use , for instance ,D =0.4 and N=5 to 

step-up a voltage by a factor of ten ?

Reviewer: 2

Comments to Author

This reviewer liked very much of the idea proposed in the paper.

However, the authors should:

1 - To include the voltage across the diodes Do1 and Dc1 (Figure 10);

2 - To improve the quality of all figures to facilitate the readers 

analisys;

3 - To present a detailed design guide line such as  could be clear the 

operational limitation related with the design of the coupled 

inductors.

EIC : Add updated references.