• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.637-644
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• 2019

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology with various transfer mechanisms such as inductive coupling, magnetic resonance and capacitive coupling is being widely researched. Until now, power transfer efficiency (PTE) and power transfer capability (PTC) have been the primary concerns for designing and developing WPT systems. Therefore, a lot of studies have been documented to improve PTE and PTC. However, power consumption in the standby mode, also defined as the no-load mode, has been rarely studied. Recently, since the number of WPT products has been gradually increasing, it is necessary to develop techniques for reducing the standby power consumption of WPT systems. This paper investigates the standby power consumption of commercial WPT products. Moreover, a standby power reduction technique for WPT systems via magnetic resonance coupling (MRC) with a parallel resonance type resonator is proposed. To achieve a further standby power reduction, the voltage control of an AC/DC travel adapter is also adopted. The operational principles and characteristics are described and verified with simulation and experimental results. The proposed method greatly reduces the standby power consumption of a WPT system via MRC from 2.03 W to 0.19 W.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1694-1706
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• 2017

Models and experiments for magnetic resonance coupling wireless power transmission (MRC-WPT) topologies such as the chain topology and branch topology are studied in this paper. Coupling mode theory based energy resonance models are built for the two topologies. Complete energy resonance models including input items, loss coefficients, and coupling coefficients are built for the two topologies. The storage and the oscillation model of the resonant energy are built in the time domain. The effect of the excitation item, loss item, and coupling coefficients on MRC systems are provided in detail. By solving the energy oscillation time domain model, distance enhancing models are established for the chain topology, and energy relocating models are established for the branch topology. Under the assumption that there are no couplings between every other coil or between loads, the maximum transmission capacity conditions are found for the chain topology, and energy distribution models are established for the branch topology. A MRC-WPT experiment was carried out for the verification of the above model. The maximum transmission distance enhancement condition for the chain topology, and the energy allocation model for the branch topology were verified by experiments.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.250-255
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• 2018

This paper presents a method for minimizing standby power consumption in wireless power transfer (WPT) system via magnetic resonance coupling (MRC) that operates at 6.78 MHz. The proposed circuit controls the required capacitance according to operational condition in order to reduce standby power consumption. Based on an impedance characteristic of the class-E power amplifier, operational principles of the proposed circuit are analyzed. Moreover, to verify the effectiveness of the proposed class-E power amplifier, an 8 W prototype for WPT system is implemented. The measured input power of the proposed class-E power amplifier at standby condition is reduced from 5.81 W to 3.53 W.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.959-965
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 그 동안 서울대학교에서 수행된 무선 전력 전송 관련 몇 가지 기본적인 연구 결과를 요약 정리하였다. 첫 번째 고찰은 무선전력 전송의 물리적인 한계에 대한 것으로, 주어진 안테나(공진기)를 이용하여 주어진 거리에서 얻을 수 있는 전송효율의 한계를 구면파 모드 이론을 이용하여 구하는 것이다. 두 번째로, 무선 전력 전송에서 사용되는 전력원의 종류에 따른 무선 전력 전송 특성 변화를 연구한 것이다. 더불어, 무선 전력 전송 안테나 사이의 거리가 변할 때 효율적인 전력전송이 가능한 방법을 제안하는 것이다. 마지막으로, 그 동안 무선 전력 전송에서 불분명하게 사용된 자기 유도방식과 자기 공명 방식의 차이를 분명히 하고자 하였으며, 결합 모드 이론을 이용하여 정량적인 구별 기준을 제시하였다.