Design and Analysis of a New Inductive Coil With Improved Characteristics Than Conventional Magnetic Couplers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2024
Abstract
In conventional coil-based wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, achieving strong coupling and maximizing flux path is difficult without increasing coil dimensions. Also, the possibility of avoiding the presence of a null zone region where mutual inductance between coils becomes zero and later increases in the negative is unavoidable. Also, the amount of copper consumed increases the coil resistance, ultimately lowering the quality factor. To work on these issues, this article works on a novel coil design that overcomes the issues above to compete with conventional coils. The proposed coil utilizes circular and square shapes with intermediate coil widths and an optimum number of turns to maximize coupling, flux path support, shift the null zone to the extreme edge of the coil, reduce overall self-inductance, and offer low coil resistance. Thus, increasing the misalignment tolerance against the conventional circular and square coil and offering better performances. In addition, the operational characteristics of coils and its boundary conditions and magnetic field strength are analyzed using ANSYS Maxwell and finite element analysis (FEA). A 400 W system with LCC-S network is used to verify overall said performances at 200 mm air-gap. The maximum dc-dc efficiency thus achieved is similar to 93% .
Keywords
Couplings, Inductance, Transportation, Air gaps, Shape, Magnetic flux, Receivers, Contactless power transfer, inductive power transfer (IPT), LCC-S compensation, magnetic coupler, zero voltage switching (ZVS)
Divisions
sch_ecs
Funders
Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, through Large Research Grant Scheme (LRGS)
Publication Title
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
Volume
10
Issue
2
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Publisher Location
445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141 USA