An input‐parallel output‐series wireless power transfer scheme for automatic vehicle modular and misalignment‐tolerant charging

SummaryThis paper addresses misalignment tolerance improvement and high‐efficiency maintenance for wireless power transmission systems. Firstly, a receiving coil is designed according to Standard J2954, published by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Next, a DDQ transmitting coil is designed to accommodate a constrained operating space. The structure and parameters of the transmitting coils are determined to obtain a high coupling coefficient when offset occurs. Subsequently, an analysis is carried out to determine the relationship between the coupler magnetic fields and power transmission ability. A current phase control strategy is developed to deal with the mismatched magnetic fields, and a switching threshold is selected to obtain high power transmission efficiency. Finally, an experimental system is set up using the designed coil. The experimental results demonstrate that the system can maintain high efficiency even when lateral misalignment occurs in different directions. A maximum transmission efficiency of 89.63% is obtained, which validates the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Misalignment tolerance improvement and high efficiency design for wireless power transfer system based on DDQ‐DD coil

Liu

Zhang

2023

Combination of three‐coil and LCC‐S structures for misalignment tolerance in wireless charging system with load‐independent output

Zhang,

Wu,

Liu

et al. 2023

SummaryMisalignment tolerance is an important issue for the electric vehicle wireless charging system. This letter proposes a hybrid topology of the inductor–capacitor–capacitor‐series (LCC‐S) and three‐coil structures with load‐independent output to achieve misalignment tolerance, which is suitable for anti‐offset in the door‐to‐door direction of electric vehicles. The unipolar coil is divided into two windings to form the two coils in the three‐coil structure. The bipolar coil is employed as the transmitting coil of the LCC‐S topology, realizing decoupling from the two unipolar windings of three‐coil structure. The receiving coil only consists of a unipolar coil. From the central to the boundary positions, the output power of the three‐coil structure decreases while that of the LCC‐S topology increases. In this way, the output power can be stabilized against misalignment. Compared with existing hybrid topologies with two sets of coils, the receiver side adopts only one receiving coil and one compensation, which is compact, low‐profile, and cost effective. Besides, the output voltage is independent of the load, and the system can achieve constant voltage output characteristic. The experimental results validate the proposed system.

A novel arc‐shaped magnetic coupler with dual‐channel receiver for rotational misalignment tolerance in AUV underwater wireless power transfer systems

Tang,

Shen,

Xie

et al. 2024

Traditional wet plug charging for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) limits its application. Inductive power transfer (IPT) is an effective solution to this problem. This paper proposes an arc‐shaped magnetic coupler incorporated with solenoid coils to achieve a stable and efficient output against rotational misalignment for charging AUV. The novel magnetic coupler consists of two solenoid coils and an arc‐shaped coil with a reverse winding, guaranteeing a relatively constant total mutual inductance and decoupling from each other. This magnetic coupler has the characteristics of a compact structure, an ultra‐wide coupling range, and a relatively stable equivalent mutual inductance. The experimental IPT prototype can deliver 1.29 kW with a dc–dc efficiency of 93% under the fully aligned case and 1.2 kW with a dc–dc efficiency of 91% under the misaligned case.