Design and Analysis of a New Hybrid Wireless Power Transfer System With a Space-Saving Coupler Structure
- 28 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- Vol. 36 (5), 5069-5081
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2020.3027473
Abstract
This paper is to present the design, analysis and verification of a new hybrid wireless power transfer (HWPT) system, which has a space-saving coupler structure. The key of the design is to simplify two coupling capacitor plates into one single frame-shaped plate at each side. Then, the coupling coil for inductive power transfer (IPT) is embedded into the metal frame to form a compact hybrid coupler. Meanwhile, the coupling polarity between the coils is specified to realize the superposition of the inductive and capacitive coupling. As a result, the proposed HWPT system can offer a good comprise of efficiency promotion and a space-saving coupler structure simultaneously. To illustrate the system working principle, the equivalent circuit model is firstly derived. Then, a detailed analysis is conducted in terms of the reflected impedance. Consequently, the mechanism of the efficiency promotion can be clearly explained. Finally, a prototype is constructed with experiments, which validates the effectiveness of the proposed HWPT system. Results show that an efficiency increase of 14% over the pure IPT is obtained at 35 cm distance. Moreover, the effects of varying the resonant frequency are also carried out to instruct the practical system design.Keywords
Funding Information
- Science Technology and Innovation Committee of Shenzhen Municipality, China (Project SGDX2019081623101559)
- ITF Platform of Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong SAR (ITP/027/19AP)
- strategic research (CityU11218519, CityU11217520)
- City University of Hong Kong (9667214)
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