Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 2437-2447Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2215887
Keywords
Class-E; inductive coupling; inductive power transfer (IPT); semiresonant; wireless power transfer (WPT)
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Funding
- European Community [223975]
- Project MOBESENS
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Inductive power transfer (IPT) systems for transmitting tens to hundreds of watts have been reported for almost a decade. Most of the work has concentrated on the optimization of the link efficiency and has not taken into account the efficiency of the driver. Class-E amplifiers have been identified as ideal drivers for IPT applications, but their power handling capability at tens of megahertz has been a crucial limiting factor, since the load and inductor characteristics are set by the requirements of the resonant inductive system. The frequency limitation of the driver restricts the unloaded Q-factor of the coils and thus the link efficiency. With a suitable driver, copper coil unloaded Q factors of over 1000 can be achieved in the low megahertz region, enabling a cost-effective high Q coil assembly. The system presented in this paper alleviates the use of heavy and expensive field-shaping techniques by presenting an efficient IPT system capable of transmitting energy with a dc-to-load efficiency above 77% at 6 MHz across a distance of 30 cm. To the authors knowledge, this is the highest dc-to-load efficiency achieved for an IPT system without introducing restrictive coupling factor enhancement techniques.
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