Abstract
We investigate the stability of the transmission efficiency (TE) in nonradiative wireless power transfer (WPT) using a relay resonator. An equivalent circuit model is used to show mathematically that two suppositions are satisfied in an overcoupled region: first, the TE of relay-based WPT systems is always larger than that of conventional two-coil-based WPT systems, and second, as the coupling coefficient increases, the TE of two-coil-based WPT systems decreases severely, while the TE of relay-based WPT systems increases slightly. Consequently, we surmise that an intermediate relay can be used to achieve higher TE and stability, compared with conventional two-coil-based WPT systems. We verify that our analytical results are in good agreement with the experimental ones.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 7812572 |
| Pages (from-to) | 3297-3300 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - May 2017 |
Keywords
- Equivalent circuit model (ECM)
- relay
- stability
- wireless power transfer (WPT)