Single variable expressions for the efficiency of a reciprocal power transfer system

The analytical expressions for the efficiency of a reciprocal power transfer system as a function of multiple parameters, that is, the elements of its impedance matrix, already exist. In this work, closed expressions for this efficiency as a function of a single parameter, that is, the extended kQ factor, are derived. This is done for three representative configurations: (i) maximum efficiency; (ii) maximum power transfer; and (iii) conjugate image set‐up. The derived formulas are useful for the design and optimization of different types of power transfer systems. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Research on Maximizing Power Transfer Efficiency of Wireless In‐Wheel Motor by Primary and Load‐Side Voltage Control

The authors have developed a wireless power transfer (WPT) system for an in‐wheel motor (IWM). It is called a wireless in‐wheel motor (W‐IWM). This paper presents a method that enhances the WPT efficiency in this system. Some methods that maximize the power transfer efficiency by power converter control have been proposed in the past WPT research. In this research, a dc‐dc converter is inserted on the receiver side to vary the load state. However, the space on the receiver side is very small for the W‐IWM; therefore, it is preferable to make the secondary circuit small. Therefore, a full bridge converter is used instead of a dc‐dc converter in the W‐IWM. In this paper, the authors propose a theoretical formula for the transfer efficiency of the IW‐IWM. From an analysis of this formula, there is a combination of a primary voltage and load voltage that maximize the efficiency. The feasibility is validated by an experiment using a motor bench set.     

Fundamental Research on Control Method for Power Conversion Circuit of Wireless In‐Wheel Motor Using Magnetic Resonance Coupling

The in‐wheel motor (IWM) is the most preferred driving mechanism of electric vehicles for its advantages of vehicle motion control, energy efficiency, and vehicle design flexibility. One of the technical problems of the IWM is the reliability of power and the signal wires. Wireless power transfer technology is the best solution to this problem. In this paper, a bidirectional wireless power transfer circuit using a primary inverter and a secondary converter is proposed. We propose a control method for both the inverter and the converter to stabilize the secondary dc‐link voltage. The proposed method is verified by simulation and experiment using simulated test equipment.     

Prediction of Behavior of Low‐Power Noncontact Charger

This paper proposes a method to predict the charging current, the output power, and the power transfer efficiency of a low‐power, noncontact charger with reasonable accuracy. The low‐power, noncontact charger model considered in this paper consists of a sinusoidal voltage source, a sending and receiving coil, a full wave rectifier circuit, and an AA nickel metal‐hydride battery. The capacitor that is connected in series in the sending coils of the low‐power noncontact charger model to improve the power factor was also examined. The self‐inductance, the mutual inductance, and the resistances of the coils were calculated using axisymmetric finite element analysis, and were substituted into the circuit equations. The circuit equations were solved by using the Runge‐Kutta method. The calculated charging current, output power, and power transfer efficiency were in good agreement with the experimental results.     

Design and analysis of power‐CMOS‐gate‐based switched‐capacitor DC–DC converter with step‐down and step‐up modes

A unified multi‐stage power‐CMOS‐transmission‐gate‐based quasi‐switched‐capacitor (QSC) DC–DC converter is proposed to integrate both step‐down and step‐up modes all in one circuit configuration for low‐power applications. In this paper, by using power‐CMOS‐transmission‐gate as a bi‐directional switch, the various topologies for step‐down and step‐up modes can be integrated in the same circuit configuration, and the configuration does not require any inductive elements, so the IC fabrication is promising for realization. In addition, both large‐signal state‐space equation and small‐signal transfer function are derived by state‐space averaging technique, and expressed all in one unified formulation for both modes. Based on the unified model, it is all presented for control design and theoretical analysis, including steady‐state output and power, power efficiency, maximum voltage conversion ratio, maximum power efficiency, maximum output power, output voltage ripple percentage, capacitance selection, closed‐loop control and stability, etc. Finally, a multi‐stage QSC DC–DC converter with step‐down and step‐up modes is made in circuit layout by PSPICE tool, and some topics are discussed, including (1) voltage conversion, output ripple percentage, and power efficiency, (2) output robustness against source noises and (3) regulation capability of converter with loading variation. The simulated results are illustrated to show the efficacy of the unified configuration proposed. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Prototype Experiments on a 1/32‐Scale Model Via‐Wheel Power Transfer Electric Vehicle

Electric vehicles (EVs) are expected to play a leading role in the changeover from fossil fuels to clean energy. However, EVs are currently not very popular, owing to their short cruising distance and long charging time. Wireless power transfer from the infrastructure to running EVs is expected to be the solution to these problems. Electric vehicle and electrified roadway (EVER) has been proposed as a wireless power transfer system for EVs while in motion. Via‐wheel power transfer (V‐WPT) is expected to be a wireless power transfer scheme for EVER. We designed and prototyped a 1:32 scale model of a V‐WPT system that consists of an RF inverter, an electrified roadway, a rectifier, and an EV with a dc motor. The output power of the prototype RF inverter was 5.9 W and the dc–RF conversion efficiency was 36.6%. The LC matching circuits for the V‐WPT were designed with two‐port conjugate matching because S₁₁ of the V‐WPT was intrinsically –0.06 dB. After matching, the S₁₁ value was reduced to –21.5 dB. The power transmission efficiency of the V‐WPT system was 75%. The RF–dc conversion efficiency of the rectifier was 62%. The total efficiency of the EVER system was 24.2%.     

Equivalent circuits for repeater antennas used in wireless power transfer via magnetic resonance coupling

The demand for wireless power transfer via magnetic resonance coupling is increasing. Magnetic resonance coupling is a new technology that achieves power transfers across a large air gap by using transmitting and receiving antennas. However, repeater antennas can enable power transmission across an even larger distance. These repeater antennas without cross coupling can be expressed as a T‐type equivalent circuit. Equivalent circuits that include cross coupling and mutual inductance, which is related to the antenna position, have not been studied. In this paper, a novel way to represent a repeater antenna by an equivalent circuit and a way to determine the mutual inductance are proposed and veri?ed by performing an electromagnetic ?eld analysis and experiment. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 183(1): 51–62, 2013; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.22360     

Transient analysis of multi‐state dc–dc converters using system energy characteristics

The study of multi‐state dc–dc power conversion techniques is restricted by the complicated inner switching behaviors. This paper presents a general and unified transient analysis for various sorts of multi‐state dc–dc converters from a viewpoint of their system energy characteristics. With the applications to the boost converters, the proposed analytical method has indicated its advantages of high convenience and practicability to the multi‐state converters. The generalized concepts of system energy parameters of dc–dc converters are introduced and applied to the transient analysis. Consequently, the expressions of system model parameters of multi‐state dc–dc converters are deduced. The new 2nd order transfer functions are obtained to describe the large‐ and small‐signal mathematical models accurately. The model simulation and experimental results are provided to support the theoretical analysis. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effect of Axial Slit on Metallic Tube for Wireless Power Transfer via Magnetic Resonance Coupling

Wireless power transfer using a metallic tube with an axial slit was attempted to demonstrate the wireless power transfer using magnetic resonance coupling to the diagnostics infrastructure. The transmission efficiency with variable distance was measured using the transmission and receiver resonators in the tube. Besides, the transmission and receiver resonators were, respectively, set outside and inside the tube. These experiments are carried out in the computational study using FDTD method.     

室内低压电力线载波通信模型

文章提出了一种室内低压电力线载波通信传输效率的模型,可获得多枝节、多阻抗负载的室内电力线通信系统频带为1～300 MHz的传输特性.传输效率模型由电力线材料本身固有物理量及其所处环境的参数推导而来,模型基于对电力线每个枝节连接截面的传输效率分析,得到系统总的传输效率.同时利用实测的幅频特性,对双线传输线分析得到的模型进行了修订,使模型计算结果与出其他不同模型拓扑的传输效率测试结果相吻合,对实际的电力线载波通信系统中频带的预选有指导意义.     

A power efficient buck‐boost converter by reusing the coil inductor for wireless bio‐implants

In this paper, a buck‐boost converter circuit for wireless power transfer via inductive links in bio‐implantable systems is presented. The idea is based on reusing the power receiver coil to design a regulator. This method employs five switches to utilize the coil inductor in a frequency other than the power‐receiving signal frequency. Reusing the coil inductor decreases the on‐chip regulator area and makes it suitable for bio‐implants. Furthermore, in the proposed technique, the regulator efficiency becomes almost independent of the coil receiving voltage amplitude. The proposed concept is employed in a buck‐boost regulator, and simulation results are provided. For a 10 MHz received signal with the amplitude variation within 3 ~ 6 V and with the converter switching rate of 200 kHz, the achieved maximum efficiency is 78%. The proposed regulator can also deliver 10 μA to 4 mA to its load while its output voltage varies from 0.6 to 2.3 V. Simulations of the proposed converter are performed in Cadence‐Spectre using TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS technology. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Study on the principle of contactless electric power transfer via electromagnetic coupling

In recent years, contactless transfer of electric power has received worldwide attention. Among many contactless electric power transmission systems, an electromagnetic resonant system showed a remarkable ability to turn on a 60‐watt light bulb located at a distance of 2 meters from a power source. Several papers that explain principles of the system have been published, but no analytical explanation of these principles has been provided. In this paper, the author provides an analytical explanation of the principle underlying the power transfer system. The analysis can facilitate the evaluation of the system characteristics, such as resonant frequencies, transferable power, efficiency, coil voltages, etc., and may be useful in the synthesis of contactless power transfer systems. Electr Eng Jpn, 182(2): 53–60, 2013; Published online in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.21285 2     

一种无通信的无线电能传输阻抗匹配方法

磁耦合谐振式无线电能传输系统由于线圈两侧的电气隔离,通常使用无线通信来实时获取原副边的电压电流信息并对其进行控制.在一些特殊应用场合比如航天器,由于频率管制等原因无法使用通信电路.为了解决该问题同时使得系统的传输效率最优,提出了一种无通信的阻抗匹配方法.该方法选用Buck电路作为阻抗匹配网络,在负载电压变化时采用线性拟...     

A module‐integrated isolated solar micro‐inverter without electrolytic capacitors

This paper presents a module‐integrated isolated solar micro‐inverter. The studied grid‐tied micro‐inverters can individually extract the maximum solar power from each photovoltaic (PV) panel and transfer to the AC utility system. A harmonic suppression technique is used to reduce the DC‐bus capacitance. Electrolytic capacitors are not needed in the studied solar micro‐inverter. High conversion efficiency, high maximum power point tracking accuracy and long lifespan can be achieved. The operation principles and design considerations of the studied PV inverter are analyzed and discussed. A laboratory prototype is implemented and tested to verify its feasibility. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Efficient power pad assignment for multi‐voltage SoC and its application in floorplanning

Multi‐voltage techniques are being developed to improve power savings by providing lower supply voltages for noncritical blocks under the performance constraint. However, the resulted lower voltage drop noise margin brings serious obstacles in power/ground (P/G) network design of the wire‐bonding package. For voltage drop optimization, both block and power pad positions are important factors that need to be considered. Traditional multi‐voltage floorplanning methods use rough estimation to evaluate the P/G network resource without considering the locations of power pads. To remedy this deficiency, in this paper, an efficient voltage drops aware power pad assignment (PPA) method is proposed, and it is further integrated into a floorplanning algorithm. We first present a fast PPA method for each power domain by the spring model. Then, to evaluate voltage drops during floorplanning iterations, the weighted distance from the blocks to the power pads is adopted as an optimization objective instead of time‐consuming matrix computation. Experimental results on Gigascale System Research Center (GSRC) benchmark circuits indicate that the proposed method generates an optimized placement of power pads and floorplanning of blocks with high efficiency. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fundamental Evaluation of Power Supply and Rectifiers for Wireless Power Transfer Using Magnetic Resonant Coupling

This paper provides a fundamental analysis of a power supply and rectifiers for wireless power transfer using magnetic resonant coupling (MRC). MRC enables efficient wireless power transfer over middle‐range transfer distances. MRC for wireless power transfer should operate at a high frequency in the industry science medical band, such as 13.56 MHz, because the size of the transfer device decreases at higher transfer frequencies. Therefore, the output frequency of the power supply on the transmitting side should be 13.56 MHz. In addition, the rectifier on the receiving side is operated at a high frequency. This paper focuses on the reflected power in the power supply and rectifiers. Thus, the parametric design method is clarified for the power supply, including a low‐pass filter to match the output, the impedance of the power supply with the characteristic impedance of the transmission line. In addition, the effects on the rectifiers of silicon carbide and gallium nitride diodes are confirmed by performing an experiment and a loss analysis.     

Application of the New Fast Multi-pole Boundary Element Method for Calculation of Electric Field

Abstract—By employing the analysis of storage and computation time in fast multi-pole algorithm, this article introduces a new fast multi-pole algorithm to solve the problem of large computation time in multi-pole transfer process of the original fast multi-pole boundary element method. The new method uses the index expansion form to complete the transfer process of multi-pole moments at the expense of a small amount of storage. The obtained computational efficiency is significantly improved. Finally, the two-dimensional plate capacitor model is used to verify the precision of the authors’ method, and the three-dimensional spherical capacitor model is used to verify the superiority of the new fast multi-pole algorithm in solving multi-freedom electric field distribution problems. The electric field distribution of a 110 kV substation switching field model is calculated by using the new fast multi-pole algorithm. Compared with the calculated and measured values, the error is less than 10% upon optimization of the model; therefore, this method is better able to solve large-scale, multi degree-of-freedom problems.     

Equivalent circuit characterization of resonant magnetic coupling for wireless transmission of electrical energy

This paper provides the accurate characterization of a wireless power transfer system consisting of two resonant air‐core coils mutually coupled in free space. The lumped‐circuit parameters of the equivalent circuit are determined with analytical formulas taken from the literature and validated by comparison with numerical simulations with a finite‐element computer code and with experiments. The parameters are determined taking as input only the geometry of the system (coil size and mutual distance, conductor radius, and turn distance) and the frequency. Once the lumped‐circuit parameters are known with good accuracy, the assessment of the power transfer system can be carried out by evaluating the current and voltage gains and efficiency for different system geometries, operating frequencies and load conditions. The Scilab programming environment was used to perform all the calculations. The characterization presented in this paper can then be considered as an effective tool in designing an efficient wireless power system. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Improving the Efficiency by Controlling the Switching Frequency for Secondary‐Side Converter of an Inductive Power Transfer System

The switching frequency affects the efficiency of a secondary‐side converter that is configured with a diode bridge rectifier connected to a DC‐DC converter in an inductive power transfer (IPT) system. The efficiency characteristics for the switching frequency of a secondary‐side converter were analyzed theoretically in order to establish a highly efficient control scheme the controls the switching frequency of the converter. A control scheme is proposed in which the switching frequency of the secondary‐side converter is controlled according to the efficiency characteristics. The validity of the proposed control scheme was clarified through experiments. The results showed that the proposed control scheme improved the efficiency of the IPT system by 3.4 points compared to the conventional control scheme.