Thermal and Electrical Performance in High-Voltage Power Modules With Nonmetallic Additively Manufactured Impingement Coolers

Whitt, Reece; Huitink, David; Emon, Asif Imran; Deshpande, Amol; Luo, Fang

doi:10.1109/tpel.2020.3015226

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“…[6], [7] Antenna in millimeter wave bands [8], [9], [10] Wearables sensors [11], [12], [13] Magnetic inductors [14], [15], [16] Heatsink [17], [18], [19] Electric motors has already been widely tested for inductor production with excellent results. The main advantage of this technique is the possibility to create magnetic core can with a large variety of shapes, optimized for a given specific application [12] [13].…”

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Evaluation of Additive Manufacturing for Wireless Power Transfer Applications

Corti

Reatti

Pugi

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.

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Additive Manufacturing (AM) has emerged as an economical and feasible technology for creating industrial components. This paper evaluates the use of AM for inductive Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) systems. In particular, the innovative use of metal 3D printing is proposed as a manufacturing process for the coils. For this reason, the recent improvement of metal AM is proposed as a suitable solution to increase design opportunities, reduce costs and production time while improving transmission efficiency. In fact, the WPT coil current distribution can be preliminarily studied through Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to optimize its cross-section and geometry. In this work, a general design procedure for WPT coils using metal AM is presented and this technology is compared with traditional solutions (i.e. hollow and litz wire) through extensive experimental measurements. The analysis shows that AM allows to reduce the parasitic resistance, costs and weight while increasing the transmission efficiency. Thus, the obtained results confirm the potential of AM for producing WPT coils, nominating this technology as a flexible, sustainable, and rapid solution for custom WPT coils production.

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confidence: 99%

“…Another promising use is for thermal management. Several studies have proposed optimized heatsink geometries that provide lower thermal resistances and weights than those built with standard techniques [14]- [16]. Finally, AM is widely used for electrical machine manufacturing [17]- [19].…”

Section: Reference Applicationmentioning

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Evaluation of Additive Manufacturing for Wireless Power Transfer Applications

Corti

Reatti

Pugi

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.

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“…Due to the simplicity of this process, it can be broadly used in power electronics fields and other electrical areas. In this way, plastic filaments can be printed to form supportive structures for passive devices [34] and jet coolers [35], while metal-based filaments can be printed to produce conductive parts of passive components and electric circuits [36].…”

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“…Other than heat sinks, some impingement coolers can be made via 3D printing (Fig. 29) [23], [35]. These coolers are always made of resin or plastic with complex inner channels, thus very suitable for AM processes, such as SLA and FDM.…”

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Applications and Future of Automated and Additive Manufacturing for Power Electronics Components and Converters

Zhang

Yuan

2022

IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron.

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Additive manufacturing techniques have by far been utilised to make 3D passive components (i.e. resistors, inductors, and capacitors), circuit boards and packages of power electronic devices. This paper provides an overview of automatic assembling technologies and additive manufacturing applications in power converters, as well as the advantages and limitations of each additive manufacturing process in this area. It shows that direct metal laser sintering offers advantages for manufacturing inductors with the conductivity of 68% of the International Annealed Copper Standard (IACS) and magnetic cores with the permeability greater than 10000 at 50 Hz. The additive electronics from Nano Dimension show great promise for fabricating power converter PCBs with the conductivity from 25% to 50% IACS. Additive manufacturing in thermal management and packaging has been extensively studied and will spark more changes in these fields. Besides, the potential of the combination of automated and additive manufacturing in power electronic systems has also been discussed, which sets the basis for future development of advanced manufacturing of power electronics.

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